New Histories of Anglo-German Diplomacy under Elizabeth I and James VI and I
March 14, 2016
In his 1569 account of ‘The State of Germany’, the English diplomat Robert Beale recorded that, at mealtimes, the Count Palatine of the Rhine kept twenty-four tables of eight people each in two different rooms. ‘In the one place … sitteth himself, his wife, and Children standing att one Table, alone … And his gentlewomen …
Diplomats: beyond the ambassador’s reception
May 7, 2014
It is sometimes said that a diplomat is someone who thinks twice and then says nothing. In a new book John Young of Nottingham History examines the career of David Bruce, the longest serving US ambassador to the UK, who filled that office between 1961 and 1969. Using insights from historical and diplomatic studies, Professor …
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