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Politics proceeded at a leisurely pace in the first eight months of 1841. That suited the lethargic Whig government under Lord Melbourne, whose chief...

Britain’s largely successful record in dealing with Afghanistan during the time of empire is today little known. It is summarised in the following letter, which...

The answer of course is: when it is a visit to another head of state. An article in The Times on June 26, however, described King George V’s visit to open the...

On 18 May, the Government announced out of the blue that non-professional singers would limited to groups of six. It marked an abrupt U-turn in policy that had...

These two very different causes dominated the public work of the 4th Earl Baldwin, who died on 16 June. Alistair Lexden recalled his career in an obituary...

Alistair Lexden followed his commemorative article on the opening of the Northern Ireland Parliament ( see below) with a letter published in The Daily Telegraph...

At 11:30 a.m. on a grey, overcast morning, a 21-gun salute rang out across Belfast Lough as the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert, with King George V and Queen...

For centuries, married women had no legal rights. Caroline Norton(1808-77), the formidable and fearless wife of an abusive husband, started the movement which...

In January 2020, Alistair Lexden published a short account of the scandalous career of Horace Farquhar (1844-1923), a man who won great wealth and high rank by...