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31 de mai. de 2024 · To lend a sense of continuity throughout the book, we are introduced to a rotating cast of characters—such as Barbara Castle, Michael Foot, Harold Macmillan and Keith Joseph—who exemplify different ideas and ideologies, with direct links and parallels between these figures weaving through the three case studies.
Há 2 dias · The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. [25] [26] Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony.
Há 5 dias · Slightly startled, Macmillan noted the necessity Britain had been under at the time, pointedly adding that when Britain had had the choice in the Second World War, she had stood alone to defend the independence of Europe. This, Macmillan records de Gaulle acknowledged ‘rather ungraciously’ (p. 185).
16 de mai. de 2024 · Between July 1961, when Nkrumah established his opposition to the application, and January 1963, when it was vetoed by Charles de Gaulle, the Anglo-Ghanaian relation-ship was characterized by tension and acrimony. There is a growing literature concerning the Commonwealth and the 1961 application.
30 de mai. de 2024 · In October 1957, at the close of bilateral talks in Washington, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan issued a joint Declaration of Common Purpose in which they looked forward to a future of intimate collaboration between their countries in combating the ‘danger of Communist despotism’.
31 de mai. de 2024 · Brian Bond’s newest book presents an analysis of Western Front memoirs written by British and Commonwealth authors, acting as an analogous volume to The Unquiet Western Front: Britain’s Role in Literature and History.
23 de mai. de 2024 · Some digging in the National Archives sheds light on the twenty year gap between Harold Macmillan's resignation as prime minister and his ennoblement as Earl of Stockton.
