In need of good chaps

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In need of good chaps

A historian assesses a year of Boris Johnson’s premiership

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The TLS Magazine

05 January, 2024

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The party that lost its reputation

The evidence is clear: the Tory Party’s plight can be blamed on the Liz Truss U-turn that exploded its claim to hard-headed competence

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Putting cumbria on the map

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The way we lived then

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The rightful king

I enjoyed reading the interesting article by Caitlin Ellis on the rivals for the throne in 1066 (October). In particular, it was fascinating to read about Edgar Ætheling’s claim, which was surely the

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Lyrical wormholes into the past

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Royals, radicals and rebels

Over a long career, John Hardman has specialised to great effect in teasing out, from speeches, decrees, minutes, memoranda, letters, diaries and unsent drafts, the varied moods of French political de

The Critic

The party that lost its reputation

The evidence is clear: the Tory Party’s plight can be blamed on the Liz Truss U-turn that exploded its claim to hard-headed competence

Country Life

Putting cumbria on the map

Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders Rory Stewart (Jonathan ...

Country Life

The way we lived then

The English House: A History in Eight Buildings ...

BBC History Magazine

The rightful king

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