Britons should be proud of the country's record on race and politics — but they must not be complacent.
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At Hughenden Manor, the former home of prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, blacksmith David puts the finishing touches to a set of grand gates that once welcomed...
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She was wealthy, idiosyncratic and in search of love; he was younger and deep in debt. Daisy Hay on how the marriage of Benjamin and Mary...
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Staring down vicious anti-Semitic attacks, Benjamin Disraeli became Queen Victoria's man of the people and built up the most successful party the country has...
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The future prime minister displayed flashes of brilliance that equalled the greatest Victorian novelists, writes Robert McCrum.
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This year Great Britain marks the 150th anniversary of the Second Reform Act. Sandwiched between the Reform Acts of 1832 and 1884,...
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In February 1868 Benjamin Disraeli became the fortieth prime minister of Great Britain. The tenth volume of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters series is devoted...
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DISRAELI The Novel Politician By David Cesarani 292 pp. Yale University Press. $25. Winston Churchill once dreamed he was having a...
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Both men used literature as a means to address their outsider status and further their political ideologies | Prospero.
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Here are a selelction of the most remarkable insights into these public figures plus first-hand accounts by those with access to the corridors of power.
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