Alistair Lexden: Neville Chamberlain – the unappreciated merits

The work done in partnership with Baldwin, and by Chamberlain alone after 1937, gave Britain some of the best welfare services in the world.

Alistair Lexden: Remembering Baldwin in a year of anniversaries

It’s past time that the record was set straight on the life and achievements of this remarkable Tory statesman.

Alistair Lexden: How Churchill tackled the challenges of Ireland

A new book charts how, over the course of a complicated career, he tried to bring peace to the island whilst defending British interests.

Alistair Lexden: ‘The Old Stagers’ – the history of an am-dram institution

This book, by a three-time Tory candidate, records a troupe who represent ”a type of true Conservatism, for they represent at once permanence and improvement”.

Lord Lexden: For all his virtues, Churchill was not the hand of God

A new book claims the great man was an instrument of divine providence. He would not have been convinced, and nor should you be.

Duncan Sim: Direct Planning – the what, the why, and the wider significance

Lord Lexden’s Bill provides an opportunity to bring real localism and better design to building new homes.

Lord Lexden: These dreary academics have failed to grasp the merits of Conservative orators

An austere, joyless tone informs most of the essays in this new book.

Lord Lexden: Disraeli. No, not a “One Nation Tory”. But a tenacious believer in imagination and courage.

Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), the first and last Earl of Beaconsfield (he turned down the offer of a dukedom from Queen… Read more »

Alistair Lexden: On this day, 225 years ago – the birth of Robert Peel, the first Compassionate Conservative

Lord Lexden is the Conservative Party's official historian. Read more of his historical articles on his website. A magnificent church… Read more »