...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...
...Turing, without whom the Enigma code might never have been broken, the Second World War might not have been won so speedily, and many more lives would have been lost...
...sword to smite its enemies. Spreading the Revolution Initially focussed on internal opposition, the Cheka began very soon to send agents abroad to gather intelligence and promote revolution by covert...
...provides a useful reminder that not all those Prime Ministers referred to as ‘Lord’ necessarily sat in the Upper House. As an Irish peer, Lord Palmerston did not have an...
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...
![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...
...rallying Liberal and Irish MPs to defeat the government by attacking the Irish Church Establishment. The Liberals won a decisive electoral victory and for the next three years it seemed...
...An unhappy Irish childhood was followed by study at Christ Church, Oxford and then military service. By 1760, having seen action in the Seven Years War (1756-63), he had risen...
...continued to serve in Newcastle’s administration and was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in March 1755. Irish politics in this period was divided between supporters of the administration and a...
...office under Perceval before joining the Admiralty Board in June 1810. Controversial Corn Laws When Castlereagh joined Lord Liverpool’s administration in 1812, however, Robinson was promoted to Vice-President of the...