Tribute to Patrick Jenkin 23rd December 2016 Patrick Jenkin entered Parliament as the MP for Winston Churchill’s former Essex constituency in 1964; he left it 2015 on retiring (under a newly introduced... Articles
Florence Nightingale in love 23rd December 2016 New letters recently came to light which seemed to suggest that Florence Nightingale broke a man’s heart in a cold and callous fashion. This was not the case... Articles
Julian Fellowes's error 21st December 2016 Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey, is supposed to be an expert on all aspects of upper-class society. Some of the finer details of rights of succession... Articles
Prime Minister on a Tricycle 20th December 2016 The third Marquess of Salisbury became Tory Prime Minister for first time in 1885; he retired from public life in 1902, having spent all but four years of the... Articles
A historian's verdict on 2016 16th December 2016 How will history view the astonishing events of this year? Parliament’s House Magazine asked ten historians from Commons and Lords to give their assessments... Articles
Edward VIII's abdication eighty years on 9th December 2016 Edward VIII became king on 20 January 1936; he abdicated on 11 December 1936. In an article (attached below) published in Parliament’s House Magazine to... Articles
"Lower than vermin" 3rd December 2016 One of the most famous insults in political history, levelled at the Tories by Aneurin Bevan in the late 1940s, was recalled in The Spectator on 19 November... Articles
Churchill and Ireland (again) 30th November 2016 Lord Lexden's review of Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew (Oxford University Press, £16.99) appeared on the ConservativeHome website in June. It has now been... Articles
The Windsors' wedding 28th November 2016 Seven months after giving up the throne in December 1936, the former Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor, married the former Mrs Wallis Simpson, who reverted... Articles
