Events Database

70 historical macro events · 2010–today

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DateEvent
Dec 30, 11Margaret Thatcher threatened to veto BBC programme about MI5 and MI6
Dec 30, 11Thatcher went behind cabinet's back with Trident purchase
Dec 30, 11Thatcher warned of defence cuts dangers before Falklands war
Dec 30, 11Thatcher government toyed with evacuating Liverpool after 1981 riots
Dec 30, 11Timeline: 1981 key events
Dec 30, 11Thatcher cabinet 'wobbled' over IRA hunger strikers
Dec 30, 11National Archives reveals historic parallels between 2011 and 1981 riots
Dec 30, 11Civil unrest: riot acts
Nov 3, 11File reveals police view of drug squad raid on Keith Richards
Jul 28, 11What MI5's records on my father tell us about the uses of surveillance
Jul 22, 11Mervyn Peake's war paintings unveiled by National Archives
Jul 21, 11Unearthed: the scandal of the Sun, Ronnie Biggs and Scotland Yard
Mar 3, 11Alien invasion hoax fooled MoD, archive papers reveal
Feb 10, 11Out of Africa: National Archives seeks public help to identify empire-era pics
Jan 11, 11A central London house for £20,000 – how prices looked in 1910
Dec 30, 10Supermac was right in 1980 and he's right today
Dec 30, 10National Archives 1980: Margaret Thatcher and her handbag diplomacy
Dec 30, 10National Archives 1980: SAS to be given immunity for killing foreigners
Dec 30, 10National Archives: Britain lobbied pope to intervene in IRA hunger strike
Dec 30, 10Margaret Thatcher in cover-up after Czech spy exposed John Stonehouse
Dec 30, 10UK discussed plans to help mujahideen weeks after Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Dec 30, 10Ministers feared 1980 plan to cut state pension would cause riots, papers show
Oct 29, 10Eileen Nearne's war heroism revealed in National Archives
Oct 29, 10Patios for all: how Thatcher and her cabinet tried to sell economic pain
Oct 11, 10MoD took softer line on loyalist paramilitaries, secret files reveal
Sep 30, 10Amputations, acid gargles and ammonia rubs: Royal Navy surgeons' 1793-1880 journals revealed
Aug 26, 10To Russia with love: Wolf Mankowitz suspected of bonding with enemy
Aug 26, 10Highlights of Security Service files released at The National Archives
Aug 13, 10Salted away: Cheshire salt mine to store National Archives
May 28, 10Retweet from Dunkirk: Critical wartime decisions relived on Twitter and online
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