About Jane Ridley

Jane Ridley is professor of History at Buckingham University and author of The Young Disraeli. Her latest book is Bertie, a biography of King Edward VII. 

Articles by Jane Ridley

The geek and the dandy: is Ed Miliband heir to Disraeli?

The Labour leader summoned the ghost of 19th century Tory leader Disraeli in his speech to conference last week. So how do the two British politicians compare?

Lutyens and Le Corbusier: from heritage to history

The contrasting legacy of two “artist-architects”, each active in India on either side of the country’s independence, illustrates the need to see the architectural past in aesthetic terms. And it is Lutyens’ elemental classicism, not the modernism of his counterpart, that is a rich source of learning today.

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