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Doreen Miller rose swiftly to prominence in the Conservative party in London during the Thatcher era after a successful career in the cosmetics business...

The execution of Edith Cavell made a profound impression on the then Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith(“ Wartime heroine Edith Cavell is honoured with £5 coin”...

West Lodge School in Sidcup, a small co-ed for 3 to 11 year-olds, was described as ‘excellent ’ by the Independent Schools Inspectorate in a report last year...

Joe Chamberlain, in Churchill’s famous phrase, “made the weather”. By denouncing Gladstone’s Irish Home Rule Bill in 1886 and splitting the Liberal party, he...

We are fortunate to have a Prince of Wales who takes a close and constructive interest in politics (“ Prince tried to influence policy ,say Blair ministers”...

On 28 June Lord Lexden was the guest of honour at parents’ open day at Maple Hayes Hall School, outside Lichfield (to which he was driven from the railway...

A short debate on the Government’s plans was held in the Lords on June 26. Alistair Lexden drew on the experience of independent schools, which are already...

Alistair Lexden wrote this account of the career of an outstanding Ulster politician and lawyer as the basis for an obituary in The Times newspaper. A badly...

Peers and their families were conspicuous throughout the First World War. Nothing, of course, could have been less surprising. For centuries many heads of...