The Lancaster House Agreement 40 years on
On 21 December 1979 an agreement ended the illegal white-dominated regime that ruled Rhodesia since 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe.
Britain and the Revolutions in Eastern Europe in 1989
Posted by:
Dr Richard Smith, Posted on:
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Categories:
Foreign affairs and diplomacy, Foreign Office Historians
Thirty years on from the fall of the Iron Curtain, we look at how British diplomats responded to the revolutions unfolding around them.