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Tag: history

A new history of our Party

Posted by Alistair Lexden, December 2nd, 2011 .

A new, comprehensive history of our Party has just been published.

( 0 comments ) Tags: Conservative Party, Disraeli, history, One Nation, Robin Harris, Stanley Baldwin, Thatcher

AV and the lessons of history

Posted by Alistair Lexden, March 20th, 2011 .

Churchill described AV as ‘the worst of all possible plans’.

( 9 comments ) Tags: Alternative Vote, AV, Churchill, First World War, Great Reform Act, history, Labour, MacDonald, PR, referendum, Speaker's Conference

A Party of Change

Posted by Alistair Cooke, December 12th, 2010 .

The second edition of this short book has been released.

( 1 comments ) Tags: David Cameron, history, Major, Peel, tories, Tory

The Tories’ 340th birthday

Posted by Alistair Cooke, December 30th, 2009 .

Alistair Cooke, our official historian, reflects on the circumstances leading to the formation of the Party.

( 6 comments ) Tags: history, tories, Tory

Celebrating 80 years of the Conservative Research Department

Posted by Alistair Cooke, November 17th, 2009 .

Alistair Cooke, the Party’s official historian, looks back at the distinguished history of the organisation.

( 2 comments ) Tags: crd, history, research

The 1959 General Election campaign

Posted by Richard Thorpe, October 25th, 2009 .

Richard Thorpe, prominent historian and biographer, reflects on the 50th anniversary of Macmillan’s election victory.

( 2 comments ) Tags: 1959, election, Gaitskell, history, Macmillan

Margaret Thatcher’s files as PM will be published online

Posted by Chris Collins, Margaret Thatcher Foundation, October 18th, 2009 .

Chris Collins, who works for the Thatcher Foundation, looks at how this exciting project is progressing.

( 7 comments ) Tags: history, Thatcher

Looking back at earlier Manchester Conferences

Posted by Alistair Cooke, October 4th, 2009 .

Alistair Cooke, Conservative Party Historian, looks at our relationship with this great city.

( 3 comments ) Tags: Conference, Disraeli, history, Midland Hotel, town hall

The past, present and future of the Conservative Party

Posted by David Cameron, September 7th, 2009 .

David Cameron concludes our History Week by examining the progressive legacy which drives today’s Party.

( 1 comments ) Tags: history

The legacy of John Major’s final years

Posted by Lord Blackwell, September 6th, 2009 .

Lord Blackwell looks at some of the enduring policy ideas produced in the final years of Major’s government.