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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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
...the central and critical decisions taken in this period. Diaries may also reflect the private desires of the author at the expense of accuracy. All sources should be read and...
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
...tried and failed to persuade the US that the Western Allies should take Berlin before the Russians. Churchill was anxious about Soviet intentions in post-war Central and Eastern Europe, and...
“A perfect nuisance”: The history of women in the Civil Service
...from taking civil service jobs in this period 3. W. Turner Cooke, of the Central Office, 20th July 1916 illustrates the type of work he believed women were able to...
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
...for the Tower restaurant has been undertaken by Butlin’s Holidays Ltd’ With the revolving restaurant, the outside area rotated around the central core. Opening ceremony The Tower was operationally opened...