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In a speech in the Lords on March 14, Alistair Lexden spoke about the significance of the Battle of the Somme, whose centenary will be marked by major...

In the early years of the 20th century British politics were convulsed by Joseph Chamberlain’s campaign for tariff reform which sought to end the long period of...

An article in the issue of The Spectator published on 16 April stated that David Cameron had ‘asked a historian friend to find out which Tory leaders have quit...

On 19 April The Daily Telegraph reported that the Indian government had for the first time publicly stated that the Kohinoor diamond had been legally acquired...

On April 9 the news broke that the Archbishop of Canterbury’s biological father was Anthony Montague Browne, private secretary to Winston Churchill at the end...

In a letter published in The Spectator on 9 April, Alistair Lexden recalled the first stages of David Cameron’s and George Osborne’s political careers.

A letter written in 1916 by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) was quoted in The Daily Telegraph on March 30; it shows his discomfort at being awarded...

A newly devised system to enable Tory MPs to elect the Party leader was used for the first time in July 1965. A letter published in the New Statesman on March...

On March 28 The Times reported that an irate golfer at Brocket Hall in Hertfordshire was thinking of resorting to civil disobedience like the suffragettes...