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22/05/25 - Book review of Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power by Harriet Cullen
06/05/25 - What happened in Parliament on VE Day, 80 years ago?
22/04/25 - Book review of Green Ink by Stephen May
24/03/25 - "The bishop and the rats": Tories and Lords reform in 1910-11
10/03/25 - Book review of Clarissa, Muse to Power: The Untold Story of Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon by Hugo Vickers
24/02/25 - Book review of History In The House: Some Remarkable Dons and The Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft by Richard Davenport-Hines
13/01/25 - Book review of British Christians and The Third Reich: Church, State, and the Judgement of Nations by Andrew Chandler
13/01/25 - One-nation Conservatism again
25/11/24 - Book review of The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
30/09/24 - Book review of Precipice by Robert Harris
23/09/24 - The centenary of the Zinoviev letter
09/09/24 - Legal Jeopardy - The fall of the first Labour Government a century ago
23/07/24 - Book review of Monsieur edited by Jane Marguerite Tippett
10/07/24 - Book review of BLOODY PANICO! or, Whatever Happened to the Tory Party? by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
22/05/24 - Book review of 44 Days in Prague by Ann Shukman
29/04/24 - Book review of Gimson's Kings and Queens by Andrew Gimson
17/04/24 - Book review of Queen Victoria and her Prime Ministers: A Personal History by Anne Somerset
25/03/24 - Churchill's sensational by-election one hundred years ago
26/02/24 - Book review of Sex, Spies and Scandal: The John Vassall Affair by Alex Grant
30/01/24 - Book review of One Fine Day. 29 September 1923: Britain's Empire on the Brink by Matthew Parker
19/01/24 - The First Whigs and Tories
18/12/23 - Book review of Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII by Jane Marguerite Tippett
06/11/23 - Book review of Sing As We Go: Britain Between the Wars by Simon Heffer
05/10/23 - Book review of The 1922 Committee - Power Behind The Scenes by Lord Norton
13/09/23 - Book review of Ancestral Voices in Irish Politics: Judging Dillon and Parnell by Paul Bew
18/07/23 - Book review of A Liberal Chronicle in Peace and War: Journals and Papers of J.A.Pease, 1st Lord Gainford, 1911-1915, edited by Cameron Hazlehurst and Christine Woodland
21/06/23 - Lords Diary
06/06/23 - Book review of Lady Caroline Lamb: A Free Spirit by Antonia Fraser
02/05/23 - The King's choice
17/04/23 - Book review of Churchill as Home Secretary by Charles Stephenson
06/02/23 - Book review of A Secret between Gentlemen by Peter Jordaan
13/01/23 - The Island of Ireland
28/11/22 - 150th anniversary of the Ballot Act
02/11/22 - Book review of Cheers Mr Churchill! Winston in Scotland by Andrew Liddle
03/10/22 - Book review of Henry 'Chips' Channon The Diaries, Volume 23 (1943-1957), edited by Simon Heffer
06/06/22 - Book review of Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP by Ronan McGreevy
17/05/22 - The first attempt to get elected Members into the Lords, a century ago
21/04/22 - Book review of The Last of the Tories, Political Selections from the Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne, 1839-1850, edited by Richard A. Gaunt
07/03/22 - Book review of Hearing God In Poetry by Richard Harries
04/10/21 - Book review of Henry 'Chips' Channon The Diaries, Volume 2 (1938-1943), edited by Simon Heffer
14/06/21 - The Case of the Married Woman, by Lady Antonia Fraser
23/03/21 - Book review of Henry 'Chips' Channon The Diaries, Volume 1 (1918-1938), edited by Simon Heffer
25/01/21 - Book review of Britain's Greatest Prime Minister - Lord Liverpool by Martin Hutchinson
14/01/21 - Book review of Statesman of Europe: A Life of Sir Edward Grey by T G Otte
16/12/20 - Book review of An Indian in the House by Lord Sheikh
04/06/20 - Book review of Paradise Lost Paradise Regained by Michael Naseby
03/02/20 - One Nation Conservativsm
13/01/20 - Book review of Fighting Churchill, Appeasing Hitler: How a British Civil Servant Helped Cause the Second World War by Adrian Phillips
04/11/19 - Book review of The Peace that Never Was: A History of the League of Nations by Ruth Henig
21/10/19 - Book review of The George Bell - Gerhard Liebholz Correspondence, edited by Gerhard Ringshausen and Andrew Chandler
18/06/19 - Neville Chamberlain: a formidable politician
10/06/19 - Book review of Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams
05/06/19 - Class of their own
07/05/19 - The first woman Prime Minister and her defamed predecessor
30/04/19 - Book review of Who Killed Kitchener? The Life and Death of Britain’s Most Famous War Minister by David Laws
27/03/19 - Airey Neave - Personal and historical elections forty years after his murder
01/03/19 - Book review of The King and the Catholics: The Fight for Rights 1829 by Antonia Fraser
14/01/19 - Book review of Nein! Standing up to Hitler 1935 - 1944 by Paddy Ashdown
12/11/18 - The new political world created in 1918
25/06/18 - Honouring the courage of the Commonwealth
30/04/18 - 60th anniversary of life peerages
23/04/18 - Book review of Richard III: Brother, Protector, King by Chris Skidmore
23/03/18 - Book review of Led by Lions: MPs and Sons who Fell in the First World War by Neil Thornton
20/10/17 - Ten days in the Upper House
15/09/17 - Book review of Duty and Democracy: Parliament and the First World War by Chris Blanchett
06/07/17 - Book review of The History of Hansard by John Vice and Stephen Farrell
21/04/17 - Book review of Emperor of the Five Rivers: The Life and Times of Maharaja Ranjit Singh by Lord Sheikh
17/03/17 - Book review of God and Churchill by Jonathan Sandys and Wallace Henley
03/03/17 - Book review of Betrayed Ally: China in the Great War by Frances Wood and Christopher Arnander
03/03/17 - Seven days in the Lords
03/02/17 - Canterbury Entertainments
16/12/16 - History in the making
09/12/16 - A theatre watched by the whole world
30/11/16 - Book review of Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew
28/10/16 - Book review of The Truth About Rudolf Hess by James Douglas-Hamilton
08/07/16 - Book review of George Bell, Bishop of Chichester
01/07/16 - Final thoughts about the Somme
25/03/16 - Book review of Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis
08/01/16 - Book review of Gimson's Kings and Queens: Brief Lives of the Monarchs since 1066
30/04/15 - Book review of Mr and Mrs Disraeli: A Strange Romance
23/03/15 - Book review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, 1914-20
12/03/15 - Book review of Breaking Bounds: 6 Newnham Lives
23/01/15 - Hanover Cure
09/01/15 - Abercorn: The Hamiltons of Barons Court
06/11/14 - Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise
11/7/14 - Tribute to Baroness Miller
30/6/14 - The House of Lords and World War One
9/6/14 - Book review of Who Decides? by Paul Tyler
21/3/14 - Book review of Private Lord Crawford’s Great War Diaries: From Medical Orderly to Cabinet Minister
14/3/14 - Ayes to the site
16/1/14 - Book review of Public Schools and the Great War: The Generation Lost
9/1/14 - Book review of Fred: The Collected Letters and Speeches of Colonel Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
7/11/13 - Book reviews of Friends in High Places: Ulster’s Resistance to Home Rule, 1912-14 and Ulster since 1600: Politics, Economy, and Society
25/10/13 - Guess who?
18/10/13 - Book review of At Power’s Elbow: Aides to the Prime Minister, from Robert Walpole to David Cameron
18/10/13 - A conference to remember (1963)
6/9/13 - Book review of Disraeli, or The Two Nations By Douglas Hurd and Edward Young, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
12/7/13 - Tribute to Lord Campbell of Alloway by Lord Lexden
12/7/13 - Book review of Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party 1918-1945 Stuart Ball, Oxford University
26/6/13 - Lords Diary
26/6/13 - Book review of Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser
14/6/13 - Book review of The Voice of the Bankbenchers: The 1922 Committee – The First 90 Years, 1923-2013 by Lord Norton of Louth
17/5/13 - Book review of Edwardian Requiem: A life of Sir Edward Grey by Michael Waterhouse
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
Parliamentary History
Vol 37, part 3 (2018) - A tragic Tory leader and his diaries
Vol 40, part 2 (2021) - The man who enriched - and robbed - the Tories
The Conservative History Journal
Autumn 2015 - Wellington and Waterloo - his victory and the political aftermath
Autumn 2014 - The Hanoverian Succession & the Downfall of the Tory Party
Summer 2014 - Making the Heavens Hum - Kingsley Wood and the Art of the Possible 1881-1924
The Hansard Society
20/3/14 - Our forgotten voters: British citizens abroad
Belfast Newsletter
22/1/14 - How unionism united a century ago to win fight against Home Rule
German Society Study Weekend
7/9/13 - A paper given by Lord Lexden at the German Society Study Weekend on Prince Albert and his legacy in Coburg. Click here to read in full.
Coburg Linguist
12/13 - An article on Alistair Lexden's visit to Coburg. Click here to read in full.
The Essex County Standard
July 2013 - Lord Lexden back home for talk
May 2013 - Lady Thatcher's connections with Colchester
ConservativeHome
4/12/24 - The centenary of One-Nation Conservatism
16/6/16 - Book review of Churchill and Ireland
6/2/16 - Book review of The Old Stagers - Canterbury, Cricket and Theatricals
27/12/15 - Book review of The Daily Telegraph Military Obituaries Book Three
15/12/15 - Book review of God and Churchill
14/11/15 - Book review of Conservative Orators: from Baldwin to Cameron
2/7/14 - Joe Chamberlain, a man who changed the course of British politics - again and again
15/1/14 - On this day a century ago, the Tories staked all on Ulster
19/10/13 - Lord Lexden: 50 years ago today, Lord Home became Prime Minister
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 (£)
25/6/14 - Sir Robert Porter - A Biographical Essay
The Daily Telegraph
11/5/12 - Lord Lexden, a genuine addition to public life
The Conservative Party's Blue Blog (archived)
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
Order Order!
15/11/22 - Book review of The Few Who Flew: RAF National Service Pilots 1955-57 by Michael Naseby
The London Magazine
06/08/21 - A famous historian with a remarkable sex life
02/06/21 - The Empire shrine that never was
21/01/21 - Our longest-serving Foreign Secretary
24/05/19 - Book review of Max Beaverbrook - Not Quite a Gentleman by Charles Williams
23/05/19 - The Man Who Was Saturday
20/11/18 - Book Review of Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May by Andrew Gimson
28/08/18 - Book Review of Lord Liverpool: A Political Life by William Anthony Hay
26/07/08 - Chamberlain and Churchill - a perfect partnership
22/01/18 - Book Review of Dick the Bad - History's most famous murder suspect by Chris Skidmore
28/07/17 - The Diaries of a Tragic Tory Leader
17/03/17 - The King, the Prime Minister and the Loss of the American Colonies
15/11/16 - Churchill and Ireland, Paul Bew
09/06/16 - Homage to a Hero - Graham Sutherland's portrait of Churchill
Journal of Liberal History
14/08/20 - Lloyd George and an Anglo-Irish centenary
The British Art Journal
17/12/20 - Thatcher Painting Mystery Published