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Shaping the First World War commemorations

Posted by: Sue Owen, DCMS Permanent Secretary, and Civil Service LGB&TI Champion, Posted on: 11 November 2016 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
Poppies falling in front of First World War memorial at Ypres

Sue Owen reflects on the part her department plays in organising the national commemorations for those who have died for the country in armed conflict.

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Moments in time – the first 100 years of the Cabinet Office

Posted by: Ian Beesley, Posted on: 10 November 2016 - Categories: General, Our Civil Service
Head and shoulders of Maurice Hankey

Historian Ian Beesley considers the evolution of the Cabinet Office and the role of Cabinet Secretary during their first 100 years.

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Remembering the civil servants who fell in the First World War

Posted by: Simon Holder and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 11 November 2015 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Memorial column, with urn atop, flanked by two flags, and arch, part of Somerset House, behind

...of Cambrai, where it suffered heavy casualties. It was again in action on the Somme in 1918, and its final engagement of the war was at Tournai in Belgium in...

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Queen Elizabeth II – our longest-reigning monarch

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 9 September 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders
The Queen at her desk holding papers from open Red Box on desk

Jeremy Heywood pays tribute to Queen Elizabeth II as she becomes our longest-serving monarch.

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Timeless values in an age of change

Posted by: Sir Jeremy Heywood, Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service, Posted on: 24 May 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Our Civil Service

On the Civil Service Commission's 160th anniversary, Sir Jeremy Heywood looks at how the need for constant improvement in the Civil Service is supported by the core principles of the modern service, which we can trace to the commission.

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Women in the Civil Service

Posted by: Una O'Brien and Russell Barnes, Posted on: 6 March 2015 - Categories: Civil Service Leaders, Diversity and inclusion
Civil servants having a meeting

With International Women's Day this weekend, Una O'Brien looks at how her department is supporting gender equality in the workplace.

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This year's most popular posts

Posted by: Cameron Smith, Posted on: 31 December 2014 - Categories: Our Civil Service

This year, our blog has covered more topics and discussed more issues than ever before. We’ve picked our most popular blog posts this year that merit a second sampling. Social media myths exploded It’s been with us for some time, …

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Keeping the lights on across government during WW1

Posted by: Russell Barnes, Posted on: 19 August 2014 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Staff list from the V & A museum in 1917

...were allowed to enlist and which were not, and touches on the problems faced by those who fought the war from their desks rather than the Western Front. Find out...

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GOV.UK links: commemorating the centenary of World War 1

Posted by: Russell Barnes, Posted on: 25 July 2014 - Categories: Our Civil Service
Thiepval-Memorial

...nice piece about the important role the Civil Service played in the First World War. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office live tweeted the events leading up to the outbreak of...

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