A gay college Monday, 17 November, 2025 From the 1880s onwards, homosexuals flourished at King’s College, Cambridge. Colourful characters abounded. Simon Goldhill recalls many of them in a new book which Alistair Lexden discussed in the attached review published in Parliament’s magazine The House on 17 November. Queer Cambridge. An Alternative History By Simon Goldhill Published by Cambridge University Press The title is misleading... Articles
Ex-Tory boosts The Daily Telegraph 3rd July 2015 June 29 marked the 160th anniversary of the first issue of The Telegraph. In a letter published in the paper on July 2, Alistair Lexden explained the part that... ArticlesRecent News
A Tory Christian Warrior: The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury 1st July 2015 On 30 June Alistair Lexden delivered a lecture as part of a series entitled ‘Parliamentarians on Parliamentarians’ held in Speaker’s House and chaired by the... SpeechesRecent News
A Firm Stand against the IRA 25th June 2015 25 years ago today the IRA bombed the Carlton Club in St James’s Street, London. Alistair Lexden—official historian of the Club as well as of the Conservative... Recent NewsArticles
Origins of Tories’ right-to-buy policy 22nd June 2015 An article in The Times on June 20 asserted that proposals to give council tenants the right to buy their homes had helped sweep Margaret Thatcher to power in... Articles
The Prime Minister and his Chief of Staff 19th June 2015 In a letter published in The Spectator on 20 June, Alistair Lexden, a former Deputy Director of the Conservative Research Department, recalled the circumstances... Articles
Waterloo Bicentenary 11th June 2015 On June 11, Alistair Lexden delivered an address at a dinner held at the Carlton Club—of which he is the official historian— to mark the bicentenary of the... Recent News
Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson 8th June 2015 On June 4 The Daily Telegraph reported that a Rolls-Royce used by Edward VIII to drive Mrs Simpson in secret was up for sale. In a letter published in The... Articles
Postal voting problems 4th June 2015 It is difficult to gauge the true extent of postal voting fraud. The government tends to underestimate it. Alistair Lexden raised the issue in an oral question... Recent NewsSpeeches
The Lexden Bill to help give the people a greater voice in planning 3rd June 2015 For the last year Alistair Lexden has been working closely with Create Streets (CS), an increasingly influential social enterprise and research institute... Recent News
