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On June 5, The Sunday Telegraph reported that Tony Blair had decided in 1997 that the Royal Yacht Britannia should be decommissed. He was far from blameless...

Wellington’s official dispatch informing the government of his glorious victory at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 did not arrive in London until the evening of 21...

It is one of the most controversial portraits ever painted. Churchill hated it, and his wife arranged for it to be destroyed.

On June 1 leading Tories campaigning for withdrawal from the EU proposed a points system to curb immigration. David Cameron attacked the proposal. In the past...

The London Evening Standard’s widely read Londoner’s Diary, the nation’s first gossip column, has just celebrated its centenary.

An unfinished and unsigned painting of the House of Commons after the 1979 election, with Margaret Thatcher at the dispatch box, was recently acquired by a...

Millions of people who are eligible to vote are not on the electoral registers. The problem of under-registration is particularly acute among those aged 18 to...

A petition has been launched, calling for a statue of a suffragette in Parliament Square. In a letter published in The Daily Telegraph on 16 May, Alistair...

There is a pervasive myth that Britain fought on without allies after the fall of France in June 1940. David Cameron repeated the myth in a speech on May 9...