United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK or U.K.), or Britain, is a sovereign country in north-western Europe, off the north-­western coast of the European mainland. The United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, the north-­eastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands within the British Isles. Northern Ireland shares a land border with the Republic of Ireland. Otherwise, the United Kingdom is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, with the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south and the Celtic Sea to the …

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3 October 2022 English

To encourage students to engage actively with historical documents. To build analytical and critical thinking skills. To formulate evidence-based arguments. To practice writing concisely and persuasively.

impacts of individual enemy attacks on the United Kingdom. Reports 973- 1151, 1 January - 31 March 1941


24 May 2022 English

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

the Survey covered all major regions of the United Kingdom. Despite ceasing in its function by 1943,


4 May 2022 English

State leaders in Eastern Europe, Berlin Mayors, United Kingdom Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries, Politicians and Statesmen, Ambassadors, Other Eastern European Figures

Diepgen 1984-1989 Walter Momper 1989-1990 United Kingdom Prime Ministers Prime Minister Years in Office Callaghan 1976-1979 Margaret Thatcher 1979-1990 United Kingdom Foreign Secretaries Foreign Secretary Years 1958 - 1967 East European Ambassadors to the United Kingdom Envoy or Ambassador Role Country of Origin Diplomatic relations established between the United Kingdom and East Germany in 1973. Martin Bierbach Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Yugoslavia 1989-1993 United Kingdom Ambassadors and Envoys to Eastern Europe


1 May 2022 English

A timeline of major events in the Cold War in Eastern Europe with links to relevant documents.

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1 January 2017 English

“The socialist system has won in our country,” Antonín Novotný, the leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, triumphantly declared at a national party conference on July 5, 1960, and …

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1 January 2017 English

In 1960–61, the outbreak of an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Nikita Khrushchev’s Soviet Union and Enver Hoxha’s Albania caught most foreign observers by surprise, all the more so because the …

peculiar attitude was rooted in the fact that the United Kingdom – unlike France, Italy, and Turkey but similarly


UCL: University College London · 1 January 2017 English

In the Cold War Eastern Europe collection, historians have an invitation to explore the variety and complexity of the cultural Cold War. The explosion in cultural traffic across the Iron …

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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

human rights and of the strong feeling in the United Kingdom on this subject. Ve shall keep the pressure University for the above-named to come to the United Kingdom for permanent settlement. At the time you said


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

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The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Czech

A file of documents concerning the restitution of Czechoslovak gold and the settlement of British claims against Czechoslovakia. Subjects discussed in the file include an agreement for the repatriation of …

Treaty Department FCO < / f t ' U M L I UNITED KINGDOM CLAIMS AND CZECHOSLOVAK GOLD 1. Thank you present their compliments to the Embassy of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and have the Agreement between the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and 1946) in the name of the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Governments of Czechoslovakia, France, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the Swiss


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