...with the War Cabinet – part of the agreement between the liberals and the conservatives in the coalition government was that there would be no change in command of the...
...also an Appendix recording conversations between Sir Horace Wilson and members of the German opposition to Hitler. DBFP, Second Series, Vols. XIX and XXI (HMSO, 1974 and 1984) David Reynolds,...
...central and eastern Europe by Soviet forces posed questions for the future. While commemorating a day of victory, it is worth remembering its wider context. War in Asia War...
...His ejection from office was effectively a political coup d’état, the result of an intrigue between the War Secretary David Lloyd George – a fellow Liberal, who had served before...
...units to promote particular priorities. For example, Edward Heath formed the Central Policy Review Staff, Harold Wilson established the Policy Unit, and Margaret Thatcher created the Efficiency Unit. Yet responsibility...
...J. Root, ’10, 11 & 12 Downing Street’, 31/1/56, RIBA Archives, ErR/100/4 [xiii] Ibid. [xiv] Ibid. [xv] Ibid. [xvi] Ibid. [xvii] R. Erith to C. Boyne, Untitled Note, 27/11/58, RIBA,...
...[xviii] A. Horne, Macmillan 1957-1986: Volume II of the Official Biography (London: Macmillan, 1989), p.160 [xix] Macmillan, Pointing the Way, p.26. [xx] Ibid. [xxi] Author unknown, ‘Downing Street Reconstruction: Note...
...that the Prime Minister was the central figure within Cabinet. However, the whole system rested on understandings – no Act of Parliament defined the institutions of Cabinet and Prime Minister....
![Extract of the draft note from 2 January 1917 on 10 Downing Street headed paper which reads 'To: The Private Secretary, the Prime Minister has decided, with a view to keeping himself in close touch with the several departments, to establish a ['Secretariat' is crossed out and replaced by 'Department'] in connection with Office of the First Lord of the Treasury. The following gentlemen have been appointed to act as secretaries to the ['First Lord of the Treasury' is crossed out and replaced by 'new Department']](https://history.blog.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/01/edited-e1483652073427.jpg)
...developments and alleviate the burden upon them; and that could promote a better-coordinated government. This concept survived in various forms over the next hundred years. It remains relevant in government...
...of royal business whilst Henry was campaigning in northern France between 1418 and 1422. One of the earliest entries on the roll, dated 21st March 1418 at Bayeux was a...