The flu that wasn’t Spanish
...of the Poor Law. Three pandemic waves: weekly combined influenza and pneumonia mortality, United Kingdom, 1918 to 1919 Reference: PD-USGOV-HHS-CDC. Although the death rate in Britain over the course of...
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Child Evacuees in the Second World War: Operation Pied Piper at 80
...1940 about 11,000 children were privately funded to travel overseas, many to the United States. Between July and September 1940, a further 3000 were sponsored by the government to travel...
What’s the context? 8 May 1945: VE Day, the end of the war in Europe
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...Zedong’s Communists. Until Japan was defeated both the US and USSR would hedge their bets over who to support. Japanese surrender came on 14 August, after the dropping of the...
What’s the context? Opening of the Potsdam Conference, 17 July 1945
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'We must base our foreign policy on the principle of co-operation between the three World Powers.' (Memo. by Sir Orme Sargent, 11 July 1945)[1] Prime Minister Churchill, President Truman and...
What’s the Context? The decision to build a British atomic bomb, 8 January 1947
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...was taken against the wishes of Britain’s closest ally the United States, and because it committed huge government resources that Britain could not afford. It was essential because although no...
The Art of Delivery: The Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit 2001-2005
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Prime Ministers and No. 10, Researcher in residence
...My name is Dr Michelle Clement and I am Researcher in Residence at No.10 Downing Street. This role forms part of a partnership between No.10 Downing Street and The Strand...
What the Butler saw: Britain and the Abadan Crisis, 1950-51
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...as well as adverse interference, from the United States government. Butler expressed disappointment that, due the confidential nature of the topic, his work would never see the light of day...
The World’s War in Europe
...Battle of El Alamein in October 1942, and at the Battle of Monte Cassino between January and May 1944. The Royal Indian Navy fought in the North Atlantic and the...
Prime Ministers and the Olympic Games
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...controversy, and a few appeared to share the view of the socialist writer George Orwell, that international sport – far from promoting harmony among nations as its proponents claimed –...
What’s the context? 30 September 1938: The Munich Agreement
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...resign as First Lord of the Admiralty, recognised that Chamberlain had done better than expected. Munich was not an isolated crisis, but the latest episode in a five-year standoff in...