...tasked George Kennan, Director of Policy Planning at the State Department with figuring out ‘what could be done to promote world recovery’. “We want coal, we want bread.” A demonstration...
...departments not considered central to the war effort lent staff to ‘front-line’ departments like the War Office and the Admiralty. The General Register Office (GRO), responsible for the civil registration...
...early as summer 1917. Yet it would take until 1919 and a severe epidemic before this was established, and the nation’s health would come under closer central government scrutiny under...
...Central Office, for information and back-channel diplomacy. Neville Chamberlain, @wikimedia Commons Eden was also confident in his own judgement, encouraged in this by his FO officials, who followed the line...
...were central to a ‘patriot’ position from the 1730s onwards. Henry Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle found Pitt’s comments tactically useful in seeking to moderate the interventionist instincts of...
...its Prime Ministerial occupants over the centuries. Features range widely over personalities and private lives, domestic and international politics, and challenges and successes, providing new insights into how the central...
...Walpole with issues of policy, administration and election management. He constructed a communications operation to promote himself publicly, including using control of the post office to prevent the distribution of...
...central assertion about the rights of a constitutional monarch, as defined by Walter Bagehot in 1867, remains as true as ever: ‘the sovereign has under a constitutional monarchy such as...
...finance as central to executive politics. It defined the framework of Victorian national finances for the rest of the century. The government was not devoid of legislative achievement. During the...
...promote his image, and undermine his opponents. A central figure in this operation was Thomas Gordon, who oversaw literary output while holding the official title of First Commissioner of Wine...