The Diaries of a Tragic Tory Leader
Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Bt. FRS (1818-87) of Upton Pyne, near Exeter (a modest estate by Victorian standards of…
The King, the Prime Minister and the Loss of the American Colonies
Last June Alistair Lexden hosted a dinner at the Carlton Club for a distinguished group of Americans, deeply involved in…
The Dreary Steeples Emerging Once Again
Churchill and Ireland, Paul Bew, Oxford University Press, 2016, £16.99, (hardback) Gladstone famously declared that he had a…