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The future Edward VII dominated Cowes week in the early 1890s through his prowess in sailing the first Britannia which later passed to his son (" Britannia to...

There is even more to the bizarre story of Baroness Stowell , the first Lords Leader without a Cabinet seat, and the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster...

The ministerial reshuffle which took place July 22 left the House of Lords unrepresented in the cabinet for the first time in its history, creating a widespread...

In 2000, when he was General Secretary of the Independent Schools Council, Alistair Lexden established the Independent Schools Inspectorate under terms agreed...

Last year Uganda introduced an Anti-Homosexuality Act which increased the oppression of gay people in a country where homosexuality was already illegal. The Act...

Gay men who were in the past found guilty of sexual offences that are no longer crimes can apply to have their convictions struck from the public record.

It emerged in February that since 2000 nearly 200 republican terrorist suspects had been told that they were not being sought by the police. Alistair Lexden...

A distinguished Times journalist wrote recently that ‘we now have at least one door-stopping book for every poppy on Flanders Field’. It was a pardonable...

It is wholly inappropriate for the Elgin Marbles to be housed in the British Museum's Duveen Galleries(" Elgin Marbles to move--but not to Greece",July 3). They...