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In the years up until the fall of Ted Heath, it was widely believed that what appeared in The Daily Telegraph was decided by the scheming wife of the editor-in...

Alistair Lexden described the scene in the Commons sitting in the Lords chamber in the following article published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 6 May...

The Government’s Bill to remove the remaining 92 hereditary peers, fulfilling a commitment in Labour’s election manifesto, has come under sustained atack from...

No one knows why or how Victor Grayson, briefly an extreme left-wing MP, disappeared without trace in 1920. The unsolved mystery has now been turned into a...

In a letter published in the April edition of The Critic magazine, Alistair Lexden corrected an article in the previous month’s edition which had misdated an...

The following article, written against the background of the latest dispute over the composition of the Lords, was published in Parliament’s magazine The House...

On 9 May 1912, large numbers of Conservatives descended on the Queen’s Hall in London, best-known at that time as the home of Sir Henry Wood’s Promenade...

After a colourful early life, Clarissa Eden became the beloved wife of one of our most tragic prime ministers, looking after him devotedly during his long years...

The wide influence ( and the eccentricities) of a long line of historians at Christ Church, Oxford are recalled in a learned and entertaining book which...