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
Edward VIII's abdication eighty years on 9th December 2016 Edward VIII became king on 20 January 1936; he abdicated on 11 December 1936. In an article (attached below) published in Parliament’s House Magazine to... Articles
"Lower than vermin" 3rd December 2016 One of the most famous insults in political history, levelled at the Tories by Aneurin Bevan in the late 1940s, was recalled in The Spectator on 19 November... Articles
Churchill and Ireland (again) 30th November 2016 Lord Lexden's review of Churchill and Ireland by Paul Bew (Oxford University Press, £16.99) appeared on the ConservativeHome website in June. It has now been... Articles
The Windsors' wedding 28th November 2016 Seven months after giving up the throne in December 1936, the former Edward VIII, now the Duke of Windsor, married the former Mrs Wallis Simpson, who reverted... Articles
Risking Royal Wrath 24th November 2016 King George V (1910-36) had only two pastimes: stamp collecting and killing game birds (he was said to have been the best shot in the country). On November 21... Articles
Queen Victoria and John Brown 19th November 2016 Did they or didn’t they? There has been much speculation about whether the close relationship between the Queen and her famous highland servant had a sexual... Articles
Justice for Bishop Bell - the campaign continues 17th November 2016 In a speech on June 30 (see below), Alistair Lexden expressed deep concern about the way in which the authorities of the Church of England had dealt with a... Articles
The Dreary Steeples Emerging Once Again 15th November 2016 Gladstone famously declared that he had a mission to pacify Ireland. His botched home rule legislation of the 1880s and I890s led not to peace, but to greater... Articles