Political

A Woman's Place...

Sarah Gristwood considers some earlier female MPs who might have given Mrs Thatcher a run for her money.

The Macmillan Years

An interim appraisal, written by Alan Hodge, of the career of a Prime Minister who had just left office after nearly seven years in power.

A Short History of the German Student Corporations

Elizabeth Wiskemann finds that the German students’ societies have played an unusual and a characteristic part in the history of modern Germany, and yet one which their mysterious rites and code of honour have obscured, even among their compatriots.

George Bubb Dodington, 1691-1762

John Carswell introduces George Bubb Dodington; a man of pleasure; an indefatigable careerist; and an industrious and successful politician.