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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...

The Spectator magazine has noted that Kemi Badenoch regards Airey Neave as her hero. Alistair Lexden gave his reaction in a letter published in the magazine on...

In an article published in The Daily Telegraph on February 13, Nigel Farage took a number of swipes at the House of Lords. Alistair Lexden responded in a letter...

On February 13, The Times published a letter from Neville Chamberlain, to be sold shortly at auction, which expresses no rancour about his sudden removal as...