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The Electoral Commission has calculated that only 44 per cent of young people voted in the 2010 election and only some 50 per cent were registered.

This year is the Hansard Society’s 70th anniversary. It was founded during the final phase of the Second World War by a popular and influential independent MP...

Alistair Lexden continued his series of visits to schools and colleges on October 9 when he went to Ashbourne College, an ‘outstanding’ (Ofsted’s word) academic...

At the Carlton Club on October 9, Alistair Lexden delivered the second of three addresses to mark the tercentenary of the Hanoverian succession and its impact...

John Röhl, Emeritus Professor of History at Sussex University, has won lavish and well-deserved praise for his three-volume biography of the Kaiser which runs...

On 18 September Alistair Lexden, official historian of the Carlton Club, spoke at a special history evening held at the Club to mark the tercentenary of the...

Ask Scotland "to say Yes to a new and positive relationship with the rest of the UK", says Lord Lexden.

In his book, Who Goes Home? Sir Robert Rogers, outgoing clerk of the House engaged in combat with Mr Bercow, cites a 1313 statute banning armour from both...

Who coined the phrase “one nation”? (The answer is not Disraeli.) Who gave women the vote on the same terms as men? Which Tory minister got 300,000 new homes...