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18/4/13 - Book review of Our Joe: Joseph Chamberlain’s Conservative Legacy by Nick Timothy

7/3/13 - Book review of Churchill: The Prophetic Statesman by James C. Humes

6/12/12 - Book review of The Gentlemen’s Clubs of London by Anthony Lejeune

1/11/12 - The 100th anniversary of the renaming of the Conservative Party

13/9/12 - Book review of Distilling the Frenzy: Writing the History of One’s Own Times by Peter Hennessy

6/9/12 - Book review of The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 by Alvin Jackson

14/6/12 - Book review of Muckraker: The Scandalous Life andTimes of W.T.Stead, Britain’s First Investigative Journalist by David Lipsey

10/5/12 - Book review of The Diamond Queen: Elizabeth II and Her People by Andrew Marr

1/3/12 - Book review of Attlee’s War: World War II and the Making of a Labour Leader by Robert Crowcroft

26/1/12 - Book review of The Conservatives: A History by Robin Harris

28/2/11 - Interview with Lord Lexden

 

The Essex County Standard

May 2013 - Lady Thatcher's connections with Colchester

 

ConservativeHome

19/4/13 - Lord Lexden: If we study how Conservatives honoured Disraeli, we will learn how they can honour Margaret Thatcher

5/2/13 - Alistair Lexden: On this day, 225 years ago - the birth of Robert Peel, the first Compassionate Conservative

1/1/13 - Lord Lexden: Forty years ago today Britain entered the EEC on Edward Heath's false prospectus

28/9/12 - Lord Lexden: Remembering the Ulster Covenant, signed a century ago today

  

The Times

5/1/13 - Letters from the past sign off with a puzzle (£)

 

The Daily Telegraph

11/5/12 - Lord Lexden, a genuine addition to public life

 

The Conservative Party's Blue Blog

The Blue BlogLord Lexden writes regularly for the Party's official blog.

11/5/12 - On this day 200 year ago

9/5/12 - On this day 100 years ago

4/1/12 - Bill Cash on John Bright

2/12/11 - A new history of our Party

4/10/11 - One-Nation Toryism in Manchester

1/10/11 - Perfect reading for Party Conference

29/5/11 - A great one nation Tory

24/4/11 - The Professor and AV

20/3/11 - AV and the lessons of history

25/1/11 - Labour’s unprecedented filibustering in the Lords

18/1/11 - My introduction to the House of Lords

9/1/11 - The House of Lords

19/12/10 - On this day… the second 1910 General Election

12/12/10 - A Party of Change

12/12/10 - The Chamberlains: a remarkable family dynasty

5/11/10 - A great man as well as a great rogue

3/10/10 - The Chamberlains and Birmingham

19/9/10 - Who founded the modern Conservative Party?

12/9/10 - A great Conservative Prime Minister

5/9/10 - Celebrating the Primrose League

8/8/10 - A brilliant biography of Edward Heath

30/12/09 - The Tories' 340th Birthday

17/11/09 - Celebrating 80 years of the Conservative Research Department

4/10/09 - Looking back at earlier Manchester Conferences

2/9/09 - On this day… 2nd September 1939 – how peace ended

31/8/09 - Welcome to Conservative History Week

17/8/09 - Hitler's Evil War

20/6/09 - Harold Macmillan: A great Conservative Prime Minister

27/5/09 - Thatcherism in historical perspective

18/5/09 - Thatcherism in Scotland

4/5/09 - On this day… Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister

3/5/09 - On this day… Britain gives Margaret Thatcher her mandate

27/4/09 - On this day… the 1979 election campaign enters its third week

20/4/09 - On this day… the first week of the 1979 campaign ended

11/4/09 - On this day… Margaret Thatcher’s election manifesto was launched

28/3/09 - On this day… Thatcher won a crucial victory in the Commons

10/3/09 - On this day… the beginning of the modern Conservative Party

3/3/09 - On this day… the Ulster Unionist Council was launched

1/3/09 - Margaret Thatcher’s early years

22/2/09 - On this day… William Pitt the Younger was buried

17/2/09 - The proud Conservative tradition of decentralisation

7/2/09 - On this day…Ted Heath calls a snap election

3/2/09 - The sad passing of Dorothy Brant

29/1/09 - On this day…Salisbury’s first Government ended and Unionism was born

21/1/09 - On this day…the end of Baldwin’s first government

17/1/09 - How the Conservatives dominated the twentieth century

29/12/08 - On this day…Harold Macmillan died

18/12/08 - On this day…the Tamworth Manifesto was published

14/12/08 - On this day…Lloyd George won a landslide election victory

9/12/08 - The Conservative Party’s unknown leader

6/12/08 - David Cameron’s third anniversary as leader

2/12/08 - Unsung heroism – constituency agents and their stories

28/11/08 - On this day in 1919…..The election of the first woman MP to take her seat

24/11/08 - The great Atlantic Alliance’s triumph over Hitler

17/11/08 - On this day…the Primrose League was founded

11/11/08 - On this day…World War One ended

4/11/08 - On This Day – November 4th 1924

2/11/08 - My book of the year – Munich 70 years on

20/10/08 - Working with Thatcher

15/10/08 - ‘Tory Heroine: Dorothy Brant and the rise of Conservative Women’

13/10/08 - A Party of Change: A Brief History of the Conservatives

Lord Lexden

Lord Lexden

Lord Lexden (formerly Alistair Cooke) is a Conservative peer who took his seat in the House of Lords in January 2011.

He is a political historian who is the Official Historian to the Conservative Party and the Carlton Club.