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Conservatism : Teaching Notes
Main Elements of Traditional British Conservatism {This document will be extended in the future] - Click Here
Conservatism and Equality - Click Here
Conservatism, Ideology, Economic Inequality and Poverty [NEW more detailed document added November 2017] - Click Here
Essay: Is Conservatism a Ruling Class Ideology - Click Here
Essay: Conservatism, Individualism and the Community - Click Here
The New Right and Thatcherism- Click Here
Conservatism 1990-2008…..with a few more recent links - Click Here
Conservatism Links
British Conservatism : The Grand Tour [New Radio 4 Series presented by Anne McElvoy] September 2013 - Click Here
Conservative Home: The Home of Conservatism - Click Here
Ideology as Commonsense : the Case of British Conservatism [by Robert Eccleshall] - Click Here
Recent Guardian article from Roger Scruton on Conservatism [Added September 2014] - Click Here
A Review by Professor Jules Gehrke of British Conservatism : The Politics and Philosophy of Inequality by Professor Peter Dorey July 2012 - Click Here
Adam Smith - Click Here
The History Guide on Edmund Burke and the French Revolution - Click Here
In Our Time : Edmund Burke - Click Here
Independent Article on the Contemporary Relevance of Edmund Burke - Click Here
A New Statesman Review by John Gray of Jesse Norman’s recent biography of Edmund Burke July 2013 - Click Here
Reflections on the Revolution in France : Edmund Burke [A study guide] - Click Here
Edmund Burke [Jesse Norman Lecture] - Click Here
Edmund Burke, Michael Oakeshott and Conservatism [Jesse Norman lecture] - Click Here
Edmund Burke [Yale University Lecture] - Click Here
Useful item on Edmund Burke - Click Here
England and the French Revolution [Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and more] - Click Here
The Victorian Web [Includes very useful materials on 19th Century Conservatism] - Click Here
For Benjamin Disraeli and One Nation Politics October 2012 - Click Here
For Ed Miliband and One Nation Politics October 2012 - Click Here
Information on the British Empire - Click Here
Harold Macmillan [Lord Stockton]: An Obituary [Published in the Guardian] - Click Here
Sir Edward Heath: An Obituary by Francis Boyd and Norman Shrapnel [Published in the Guardian] - Click Here
Thatcherism and the End of the Post-War Consensus [Article for the BBC by Professor Dennis Kavanagh] - Click Here
The Political Assassination of Margaret Thatcher [A clip from an Andrew Marr Documentary posted on You Tube] - Click Here
The End of Margaret Thatcher [a docu-drama posted on YouTube] - Click Here
The Downing Street Years [a detailed 4 Part BBC documentary now posted on YouTube on the Premiership of Margaret Thatcher] - Click Here
Very useful links on Ayn Rand added December 2018 and June 2019, for a podcast interview [45 mins] from 1979 Click here
For an excellent film by Adam Curtis tracing Ayn Rand’s career and influence on US politics to the present day _ Click Here
For an article by Professor Lisa Duggan - Click Here
Detailed article on John Major - Click Here
John Major: An Unsuccessful Prime Minister? {book review] - Click Here
Link to French Magazine Articles on John Major [Several in English!] - Click Here
The Conservative Party Under David Cameron: A Separate Page of Links - Click Here
Conservative Scepticism 2012 [Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the Black Swan from the BBC] - Click Here
Radio 4 Analysis on Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Click Here
Steve Richards’ 3 part Radio 4 series on the Cameron Years is an exceptional resource for students and teachers alike - Click Here
The Crisis of Conservatism [New Statesman article by Nick Timothy] - Click Here
Implications of UKIP for Ideological Positioning of Cameron’s Conservative Party- Click Here
The Conservative Party Leadership [Ongoing Guardian coverage] July 2016 - Click Here
Theresa May and The Conservative Party NEW December 2016 - Click Here
Will Brexit break the Conservatives? {Prospect July 2018] - Click Here