If Twitter had existed in 1914: tweeting a crisis
...War, 1898-1914 Volume XI: The Outbreak of War, 28 June – 4 August 1914. Our 1914 diplomats and officials tweeted from their respective accounts and were re-tweeted from a central...
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They also served...
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Audrey Collins, Posted on:
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Civil service, First World War, Social history, The National Archives
...member of its central office staff. These give dates of birth, appointments and promotions, and of retirement, resignation or death. For those who served in the First World War the...
A private public record office: Tony Benn as a political diarist
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Mark Wickham-Jones, Posted on:
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Finance and economics, Home affairs, No 10 guest historian series, The National Archives
...a monetarist package, to others who demanded sweeping interventions on import controls and nationalisation. Between such polarised positions, a few ministers sought to defend the Keynesian-inspired orthodoxy that had dominated...
What’s the Context? 9 May 1956: Eden orders an enquiry into the disappearance of Commander ‘Buster’ Crabb
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...the visit to the UK of Soviet leaders Bulganin and Khrushchev, respectively Premier and First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It was...
Lord Palmerston and the ‘civis Romanus sum’ principle
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David Brown, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, No 10 guest historian series, Parliament
...of constitutionalism seemed to be battling those of absolutism – in the Iberian peninsula, in central Europe, in the Ottoman Empire – Britain’s ability to position itself at the forefront...
Gallipoli: 100 years on
...Ref Ca 1062. Imperial conflict While these are central elements of the campaign they also need to be seen in the context of what, on both sides, was a wider...
What’s the context? 2 May 1945: Raising a Flag over the Reichstag
...that it would be better to deal with the Western Allies as occupiers than Soviet Russia. The high casualty rate was also a result of Soviet haste. Stalin had delayed...
“A perfect nuisance”: The history of women in the Civil Service
...of 1970. A draft of the Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (TNA reference AT 50/83) 1975 Sex Discrimination Act The final significant legislative change for women was the 1975 Sex Discrimination...
Queen Elizabeth and her 12 Prime Ministers
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D R Thorpe, Posted on:
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No 10 guest historian series, Past prime ministers, The Monarchy
...Major. Tony Blair and David Cameron were not even born when she acceded to the throne. The central assertion about the rights of a constitutional monarch, as defined by Walter...
Harold Wilson opens the Post Office Tower
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Mark Dunton, Posted on:
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Communications, Home affairs, The National Archives
...monopoly over the main telecommunications network in the UK. In the 1950s and ‘60s there was a huge expansion of trunk telephone and television networks between London and the provinces....