Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Archives of the British Conservative Party, 1867-1986
Author: The Routledge Guide to British Political Archives
Author: Chris CookPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136509615
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
This major new reference work provides an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to archive sources now becoming available for British political history since 1945. With a user-friendly layout, the book presents a comprehensive range of 1,500 personal papers from leading statesmen, backbench politicians, writers, campaigners, diplomats and generals which cover the key aspects of British history since of the end of the Second World War. Compiled by an experienced archivist, this comprehensive, easy-to-use and authoritative guide is an invaluable resource for researchers of modern British history.
Archives
Author: Microforms for Historians
Author: Donald James MunroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Portrait of a Party
Author: Stuart BallPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199667985
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Conservative Party is the least investigated and understood of British political parties. Using an original approach and an unparalleled range of sources, Stuart Ball analyses the nature and working of the Conservative Party during one of the most significant and successful periods in its history.
Parties at War
Author: Andrew ThorpePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191556785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Political parties formed the cornerstone of the liberal democracy for which Britain claimed it was fighting in the Second World War. However, that conflict represented the most sustained challenge to the British party system during the twentieth century. War forced the suspension of normal electoral politics, and exerted considerable extra demands on the time and loyalties of party activists and organizers. This all posed a serious challenge to the Conservative, Labour and Liberal parties. Parties at War uses an unusually broad and deep range of records of the main political parties to explore how they responded to the challenge of war. Extensive use of the local as well as the national-level papers of the major parties offers a fuller picture than ever previously attempted. Andrew Thorpe focuses on what parties actually did, at both local and national levels, to sustain their organization during the war. He assesses the varying impacts of war, not just on each of the parties, but also over time, and between the different regions and areas of Britain. Thorpe demonstrates how wartime struggles over organization had significance not just for the election of the first majority Labour government in 1945, but also for the longer-term development of 'party' in modern British politics.
British Archives
Author: Janet FosterPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349095656
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 891
Book Description
This guide contains over 1000 entries of centres holding archive and manuscript collections in the UK includes many newly-established and specialist archives and their details. This edition includes over 400 additional entries, new indexes and cross-references.
The Longman Guide to Sources in Contemporary British History: Organisations and societies
Author: Chris CookPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
An indispensable reference work for librarians, historians and social scientists seeking information on the archive sources for British history, politics and society since 1945. The product of a major research project that has been under way since October 1990 at the British Library of Political and Economic Science (for practical purposes a part of the London School of Economics). Its aim was to locate the whereabouts of non-governmental archives in order to provide essential source material for the contemporary historian.
Powers of the Press
Author: Aled JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351909460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
The power of the popular press presents all modern societies with difficulties. It is, however, a problem with a history: the hold of the press over public opinion was debated with urgency throughout the 19th century. This book looks at the ways in which individuals, pressure groups, political organisations and the state sought to understand the mass communications media of the 19th century, and use them to influence public opinion and effect moral and social reform. Aled Jones addresses the problem by using three approaches: first he considers the 19th century theories of the influence of communications media on patterns of social thought and behaviour; then he examines attitudes towards the press in both high and popular culture; finally he explores the social and intellectual world of the reader, the consumer both of the press as a commodity and of the hidden moral strategies that were built into it. The tensions between Victorian moral imperatives and the operation of the free commercial market raised issues of great public concern, such as whether the mass media should be under private or public control. These tensions have dominated the way in which Britain and other western societies have thought about the newer broadcasting media, but their origins are older and more complex than studies of contemporary media acknowledge.
Conservatism for the democratic age
Author: David ThackerayPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526110768
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
This book offers a new interpretation of the Conservative party’s revival and adaptation to democratic politics in the early twentieth century. We cannot appreciate the Conservatives’ unique success in British politics without exploring the dramatic cultural transformation which occurred within the party during the early decades of the century. This was a seminal period in which key features of the modern Conservative party emerged: a mass women’s organisation, a focus on addressing the voter as a consumer, targeted electioneering strategies, and the use of modern media to speak to a mass audience. This book provides the first substantial attempt to assess the Conservatives’ adaptation to democracy across the early twentieth century from a cultural perspective and will appeal to academics and students with an interest in the history of political communication, gender and class in modern Britain.