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
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Letters from Queen Victoria go astray 13th March 2019 On March 9, The Times reported that a letter from Queen Victoria to Tennyson was up for auction in New York. For years it had been available in Lincoln, with... Articles
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Queen Victoria and her youngest daughter 2nd March 2019 The following letter was published in The Daily Telegraph on 1 March under the heading, “That’s my Baby”. SIR - It is hard to think of short, stout Queen... Articles
Catholic emancipation 190 years ago 1st March 2019 2019 brings the 190th anniversary of full Catholic emancipation. Parliament’s House Magazine marked the anniversary by publishing, in slightly amended form... Articles
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