Aspidistra: The wartime breakthrough you’ve never heard of
...was a problem. The radio signal needed to be strong enough to look like it came from Germany. To create such a strong signal, the radio transmitter had to be...
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Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper at 80
...deemed better value for these evacuees to be billeted in private homes in safer, ‘reception’ areas of the country, rather than building special camps. Hosts in these areas could face...
The Battle of Amiens
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...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...
The soldier turned diplomat
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Tara Finn, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
Harold Alexander is better known for his part in winning the Second World War, as shown by his later title of Earl Alexander of Tunis. However, his activities in Latvia...
What’s the context? George Brown resigns as Foreign Secretary, 15 March 1968
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...operation was underway, engaging with West Germany’s Ostpolitik and proposing a European security conference, while tightening the Soviet grip on East Germany, rejecting any idea of unification and engaging in...
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989
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Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
...year in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. It contains reporting from British embassies on the rapidly changing political scene, and documents attempts in London to develop policy...
What’s the Context? Signing the Anglo-American Financial Agreement, 6 December 1945
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
The American Congress and the American people have never accepted any literal principle of equal sacrifice, financial or otherwise, between all the allied participants. Indeed, have we ourselves? Lord Keynes,...
What’s the Context? Winston Churchill’s ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech, Fulton, 5 March 1946
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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FCDO Historians, Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians, Second World War, What's the context? series
...when he said it was better for them to ignore the speech. What’s the context? Anglo-American relations were plagued by a number of tricky issues in March 1946, bringing it...
What’s the context? 12 October 2015: The execution of Edith Cavell
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Gill Bennett, Posted on:
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First World War, Foreign Office Historians, What's the context? series
...advantage in 1915 seemed to lie with the Central Powers, principally Germany and Austria, though a divided approach to the campaign against Russia weakened their initiative and Austria was close...
Prime Ministers in the First World War
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Simon Ball, Posted on:
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Defence and conflict, First World War, No 10 guest historian series, Prime Ministers and No. 10
...attracted to extremist politics. Hitler in Germany, and his pale English shadow, Oswald Mosley, celebrated the War for destroying the link between classes and generations. The regulars, on the other...