Month: November 2017

The death of Lady Soames, née Mary Churchill, at the age of 91 has been announced. While she lived to a very good age and achieved a good many things,…

On September 17, 1939 the war that is known as the Second World War entered its crucial phase though, possibly, this was not recognized at the time. The Soviet Union,…

So spoke the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. Neville Chamberlain at 11.15 BST on September 3, 1939. After the announcement by Alvar Lidell that the Prime Minister would now address…

Jesse Norman‘s book on Edmund Burke was published last year but I have only just managed to read it and found it very interesting. Last year or this, the subject…

It is Waterloo year, the first that can be fully celebrated since the year itself as 1915 was hardly a time for celebrations. Tory Historian has been doing various things:…

Andrew Roberts’s parallel biography of Napoleon and Wellington, concentrating on the Battle of Waterloo (though the actual battle occupies but a chapter) deals with a number of fascinating subjects, including…

All it takes is a few words and phrases: trenches, barbed wire, mud, water, lost generation. And above all, the Western Front. Because nothing else happened in all those years,…

Early in the afternoon of January 30, 1649, Charles I, who, apparently, insisted on wearing three shirts so he would not shiver from cold, stepped through the window of Whitehall…

As last year’s overwhelming and not always accurate memorials to the outbreak of the First World War slide away into memory, we can start discussing the subject a little more…

Today Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II becomes this country’s longest serving monarch and she is celebrating that day in Scotland, in many ways a very appropriate thing to do. She…