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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
For an overview of Conservative history and ideology- 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 very useful items from the Guardian Ayn Rand Page covering the current political relevance of Ayn Rand _ Click Here
For an article by Professor Lisa Duggan - 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
New links added March 2023
Click here for What’s a Tory? [BBC Radio 4]
Click here for Conservative Party factions
Click here for BBC Radio 4 programme on the 1922 Committee
Click here for Michael Oakeshott’s Conservative Disposition
Click here for the nature of conservatism
Click here for a recent article The “New Right and its legacy for British Conservatism
Click here for New Right
Click here and here and here for items on Neoliberalism
Click here and here and here for items on Ayn Rand
Click here and here and here for items on Neoliberalism
Click here for the Decade the rich won
Click here for the New Right and its legacy for British Conservatism
Click here for Conservative Party Statecraft and the Johnson Government [ Richard Hayton in The Political Quarterly]
Click here for The Politics of Levelling Up [ Will Jennings, Lawrence McKay and Gerry Stoker in The Political Quarterly]
Click here for The Ambiguous Ideology of Levelling Up [Jack Newman in The Political Quarterly]
Click here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here and here for Conservatives and Levelling Up
Click here for Duncan Walden A Walk on The Supply Side