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14 October 1940 | 10 Downing Street | Bomb Incidents | West End at ...  Apr 1, 2011 ... 10 Downing Street SW1, official residence of fifty three British Prime Ministers ... power, survived the Blitz but suffered blast damage in 1940 and 1944. ... precautions were taken in Downing Street to protect Prime Minister ... An air raid shelter was built in the No 10 gardens and construction .... Terms of Use.
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BBC - The Blitz: Oxford Street's store wars  Sep 6, 2010 ... Remembering the Oxford Street retail icons almost wiped out in the ... Wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill would later describe ... in a powerful example of the 'Blitz spirit', the staff were back at work, ... Two hundred people were sleeping in the store's basement air raid shelter. .... 01 Sep 10 | History.
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National Churchill Museum | World War II - Winston Churchill's ...  Within a month of Churchill becoming Prime Minister in May 1940, most of ... In a sense, the Blitz saved the RAF and Britain itself. ... Britain was losing the battle at sea despite the 50 aging WWI-era destroyers the .... seen in wartime that a government-managed economy could work, did not ... Open Daily: 10:00 AM - 4:30 PM
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1940-1942 - Winston Churchill  The year ended with what Churchill later called "the war still in its sinister trance" In a ... Unfortunately his trip to Paris also delayed action in Norway and despite ... It was later said that Monty told the Prime Minister that he neither drank nor ... forces in Africa; Turkey and Bulgaria sided with Germany; the Blitz continued;...
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Jeopary Questions page 1343 - COLONIAL AMERICA - TriviaBistro ...  COLONIAL AMERICA: In 1614 Presbyterian minister Alexander Whitaker baptized this daughter of Powhatan .... 10 DOWNING STREET: Despite sleeping elsewhere, during the Blitz this prime minister continued to work & take meals at No. 10.
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Later life of Winston Churchill - Wikipedia  The later life of Winston Churchill documents the life of the British statesman from the end of World War II and his second term as Prime Minister of the United...
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How Churchill ate his way to victory: He was sustained through the ...  May 1, 2015 ... Clementine later recalled that when Mrs Landemare made her offer, she was ... The Churchills were in the happy position of owning their Chartwell ... Albert Finney and Vanessa Redgrave in The Gathering Storm ... and a cook to prepare it were quintessential to his leading Britain at war. ..... Keeping warm!
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Downing Street mortar attack - Wikipedia  The Downing Street mortar attack was carried out by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) on 7 February 1991. The IRA launched homemade mortar shells at 10 Downing Street, London, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the ... In the late 1980s British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was top of the IRA's...
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Churchill's Chamberlain: The Unnecessary War - desip  Churchill was particularly outraged by what he saw as the prime minister's ... Mr. Neville Chamberlain had, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, not only done the main ... until a few months before war broke out despite the nation's desperate need for a ... easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented"?
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Photo of Winston Churchill on horseback after daring Boer War ...  Feb 2, 2012 ... Winston Churchill after his Boer War prison camp escape: Sitting astride his grey mount in 1899, the 26-year-old future Prime Minister is shown wearing a suit and tie ... to a prison camp in Pretoria but a month later he made his escape and ... (right) with other captured British soldiers during the Boer War.
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Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1940--1945 ...  Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1940--1945, 1951--1955. The Cold War--1945-1991, 1992 Updated: June 18, 2009. From World History in...
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Historical Novel | Britannica.com  List of articles about Art and Music / Artistic Genres / Historical Novel. ... and author who as prime minister (194045, 195155) rallied the British people during World War II and led .... U.S. novelist best known for his epic war novels. During World War II Wouk served in the Pacific aboard the destroyer-minesweeper Zane.
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Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia  Arthur Neville Chamberlain, FRS (18 March 1869  9 November 1940) was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of .... Future Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee complained that Chamberlain ...... He restored Churchill to the Cabinet as First Lord of the Admiralty, with a seat in the War Cabinet.
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Ramsay MacDonald | prime minister of United Kingdom | Britannica ...  Jul 29, 2016 ... First Labour Party prime minister of Great Britain, in the Labour ... he joined the Fabian Society, was employed in menial office jobs, and worked for a ... 22, 1924, MacDonald became prime minister and also foreign secretary.
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Neville Chamberlain - Wikipedia  Arthur Neville Chamberlain, FRS (18 March 1869  9 November 1940) was a British ... He was succeeded by Winston Churchill but remained very well regarded in .... but Chamberlain declined to serve again as Chancellor, preferring his former ... Chamberlain reduced the annual interest rate on most of Britain's war debt...
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List of residents of 10 Downing Street - Wikipedia  Number 10 Downing Street: Before ... Earl of Lincoln, Prime Minister ... to live in Number 10 because he ... Number 10 for work and dining. ... though he actually lived in his ... Tony Blair, First Lord of the ... more suited to his larger family.
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Neville Chamberlain - Prime Minister, Government Official, Mayor ...  Mar 1, 2016 ... Neville Chamberlain was British prime minister as England entered World War II and was known for his policy of 'appeasement' toward Adolf Hitler. Learn about the hard choices he faced on Biography.com. ... Name: Neville Chamberlain ... and his half-brother, Austen, both served on Prime Minister Stanley...
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Peace in Our Time - Neville Chamberlain 1938  And next I want to say that the settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has ... Still later, he spoke from the window of 10 Downing Street the following:] ... that there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honor.
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Who Was Churchill? - Winston Churchill Foundation of the USA  Churchill was determined to use his military career as a springboard for public life ... he began to highlight the new threat posed by fascism and Hitler's Germany. ... He became Prime Minister of a National Government on May 10, 1940, the day ... He was aged 65. ... In 1951 he returned as Prime Minister for a second term.
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History of 10 Downing Street - GOV.UK  10 Downing Street, the locale of British prime ministers since 1735, vies with the ... by a corridor that runs through 11 Downing Street  the official residence of the ... The Prime Minister does not have keys to Number 10 but there is always ..... Preferring to work in the larger Cabinet Room in the Foreign Office and live in...
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Winston Churchill - Wikipedia  Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874  24 January 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, ... During the war, he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the...