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FICCI Arbitration and Conciliation Tribunal (FACT) provides arbitration services for settling commercial disputes. FACT was established in 1952 [11] and aims at settling business disputes outside the traditional framework offered by courts of law through arbitration and conciliation, as the case may be. [12]
The military history of the United Kingdom in World War II covers the Second World War against the Axis powers, starting on 3 September 1939 with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France, followed by the UK's Dominions, Crown colonies and protectorates on Nazi Germany in response to the invasion of Poland by Germany. There was ...
History of the British Army from the Norman Conquest to the First World War (1899–1930), in 13 volumes with six separate map volumes. Available online for downloading; online volumes; The standard highly detailed full coverage of operations. Haswell, Jock, and John Lewis-Stempel. A Brief History of the British Army (2017). Higham, John, ed.
In the period after the First World War, there was unrest and change in the United Kingdom and the British Empire: unrest in Egypt, for instance, civil war in Ireland, the rise of Indian nationalism in the British Raj, strikes in Scotland; the Russian Revolution had begun in 1917 and was inspiring people; [72] [73] the labour movement was ...
3 September 1939 – Britain enters the Second World War when it declares war, along with its Allies, on Nazi Germany. September 1939 – British Expeditionary Force begins to land in France. 17 May 1940 – The Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard) is formed. 20 May 1940– In France, British armoured units counter-attack at Arras.
The Old Dock, originally known as Thomas Steers' dock, was the world's first commercial wet dock. [25] 1744: An attempted French invasion of southern England was stopped by storms. 1756: Following the start of the French and Indian War 2 years prior, the Seven Years' War begins. [26] 1763 10 Feb
Britain at Bay: The Epic Story of the Second World War, 1938–1941 (2020) Bousquet, Ben and Colin Douglas. West Indian Women at War: British Racism in World War II (1991) online Archived 22 March 2020 at the Wayback Machine; Bryce, Robert Broughton (2005). Canada and the cost of World War II. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-7735 ...
[2] [3] The Conservatives returned to power in 1951, accepting most of Labour's post-war reforms but introducing prescription charges to the NHS in 1952 and denationalising steel in 1953. They presided over 13 years of economic recovery and stability.