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==History==
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{{newreview
|author=Bernard Porter
|title=The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a new Foreign Office, 1855 - 61
|rating=3.5
|genre=History
|summary=Back in the 1850s it was mooted that Whitehall required some new public buildings, primarily in the form of a new Foreign Office. Such matters are never quite so simple as deciding on the need and arranging the construction and completion: there was to be debate, occasionally about the need for a new building but primarily about the form it should take and the style in which it should be built. This proved to be acrimonious and devious and came to be known as 'The Battle of the Styles'.
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{{newreview
|author=Richard Lucas