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
Down with Section 40 5th January 2017 Section 40 of the Crime and Courts Act 2013 makes newspapers liable not only for their own costs in libel cases, but for those of the other party as well. This... Articles
Royal Archives - fairness for historians 5th January 2017 An article in The Times on January 4 criticised one crucially important aspect of the way in which the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle are being run. Some... Articles
Tribute to Patrick Jenkin 23rd December 2016 Patrick Jenkin entered Parliament as the MP for Winston Churchill’s former Essex constituency in 1964; he left it 2015 on retiring (under a newly introduced... Articles
Florence Nightingale in love 23rd December 2016 New letters recently came to light which seemed to suggest that Florence Nightingale broke a man’s heart in a cold and callous fashion. This was not the case... Articles
Julian Fellowes's error 21st December 2016 Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey, is supposed to be an expert on all aspects of upper-class society. Some of the finer details of rights of succession... Articles
Protecting press freedom 20th December 2016 How is the freedom of the press—a crucial element of the British way of life—to be reconciled with the individual’s right to privacy on a new, permanent basis... Speeches
Prime Minister on a Tricycle 20th December 2016 The third Marquess of Salisbury became Tory Prime Minister for first time in 1885; he retired from public life in 1902, having spent all but four years of the... Articles
A historian's verdict on 2016 16th December 2016 How will history view the astonishing events of this year? Parliament’s House Magazine asked ten historians from Commons and Lords to give their assessments... Articles
New partnership proposals from the Independent Schools Council 15th December 2016 Academic and other partnership activities between independent and state schools are flourishing—and expanding—in many parts of the country. In September the... Speeches
