Benjamin Disraeli was born Jewish, baptized as a boy but ... To be a prime minister and yet not thought part of the real polity of the country is an extraordinary situation indeed.

Benjamin Disraeli, c. 1878 (Public domain/via Wikimedia) Share Comments Listen. By Jack Butler. About Jack Butler; ... (1835) by Benjamin Disraeli, later prime minister of the United Kingdom.

The Bank of England has asked the public’s help in designing its new bank notes and suggesting which historial figures should grace them. Having worked as a professional historian for over 40 years ...

Disraeli, the grandson of a Jewish-Italian immigrant who sold straw hats, was the only 19th-century prime minister not to attend a public school or Oxbridge. At first glance, Mr Johnson’s ...

On Barack Obama and Benjamin Disraeli ... He capped his career by being elected prime minister twice (1868 and 1874), on both occasions as part of the Conservative party; ...