Servants of diplomacy : a domestic history of the Victorian Foreign Office

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Servants of diplomacy : a domestic history of the Victorian Foreign Office

Keith Hamilton

Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-231) and index

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Servants of Diplomacy offers a bottom-up history of the 19th-century Foreign Office and in doing so, provides a ground-breaking study of modern British diplomacy. Whilst current literature focuses on the higher echelons of the Office, Keith Hamilton sheds a new light on the administrative and social history of Whitehall which have, until now, been largely ignored. Hamilton's examination of the roles and actions of the Foreign Office's domestic staff is exhaustive, with close attention paid to: the keepers of the office, keepers of the papers, the carriers of the papers and the efforts made to adapt to growing technological changes. Hamilton's exhaustive analysis also focuses on the reforms of 1905-06 and the Queen's Messengers during wartime. Drawing extensively from Foreign Office and Treasury archives and private manuscript collections, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest of British diplomatic history.

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Introduction: An Office of Class and Classification Part I: Keepers of the Office 1. Residents 2. Pets, Pests and Other Miscreants 3. Riot and Debauchery Part II: Keepers of the Papers 4. Arranging, Methodizing and Digesting 5. Quite de Jack in Office 6. Much Irregularity 7. The Hardest Working Man in Europe 8. Unhappy Spirit 9. Misnomer's Heir Part III: Carriers of the Papers 10. Persons of a Very Subordinate Class 11. A Change in the Class of Persons 12. New Ways for Old 13. Matters of Caprice and Fancy 14. The End of Superintendence Part IV: Adjusting to the New 15. Servants of the New 16. Theft, Negligence and Security 17. Divisions of Labour 18. Pestilence, Redolence and Sustenance Part V: Managing the Past 19. Supernumeraries, Supplementals and Pay 20. Archives, Arrears and Registers 21. Publishing the Record 22. After the Hertslets 23. Custody, Research (and Arrears) Part VI: Delivering the Message 24. Rewarding Gentlemen 25. Here Today but Gone Tomorrow 26. Testing their Worth 27. Going Local, Paying Less Conclusion Bibliography Index

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