It’s now six months since Bristol elected its first ever Member of Parliament from the Green Party. The city’s voters have ...

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With the return of the Whigs to power under Lord John Russell, and the isolated position of the Peelites, the leaders of the Tories had before them the great task of remaking their party.

There’s a word in the zeitgeist that illustrates the point, in fact – one that has been threatening the laissez-faire ...

A new book illustrates that far from being pastoral fantasies wasting land, money and energy, they are a valuable cultural export, part of the country’s enduring soft power ...

Dating from the Georgian era, gentlemen's clubs were reserved exclusively for the aristocracy and the elite, to meet, drink, ...

In his first book of poetry, Burns wrote The Author’s Earnest Cry And Prayer “where he attacks the Whig Party”, which opposed the Tories. During his life, there was a debate between two ...

with the Whigs supporting both the dethronement of James II in 1688 and the accession of the Hanoverian dynasty in 1714, and the Tories accepting those changes reluctantly. By the mid-18th century ...

who was on the more conservative Whig side of the party, entered the field, so there were three Liberals competing for two seats, giving the Tories, with a single candidate, the hope of getting in ...

Birthplace of Winston Churchill, Blenheim Palace has a rich history of aristocratic owners - but the secret scandals behind its walls are being laid bare in a new exhibition ...