Conservative Party

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Naomi Mitchison
Stalwarts of the Labour Party (where NM 's husband had his career to think of) hated We Have Been Warned. Though NM had explicitly denied that she spoke for any political group whatever, an...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Gawthorpe
MG 's father, John Gawthorpe , was a leather currier, who worked at a tannery or leather factory. He was also a church choirmaster, Sunday-school superintendent, cricket-team captain and later an agent for the Conservative Party
Family and Intimate relationships Louisa Baldwin
A Worcestershire ironmaster, Alfred Baldwin also served as a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1892.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
LB and her husband were very close. Louisa's ill health only seemed to strengthen [his] devotion to her. The intensity...
death Benjamin Disraeli
His death date became known as Primrose Day, from his association with the spring flower which he was said to love.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
In November 1883 the Primrose League was formed as a Conservative organization.
Cultural formation Elizabeth Rigby
ER was born to presumably white, English, middle-class parents. She was a practising Anglican and leaned towards High Church doctrine.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
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She became a staunch Tory who frequently published articles in the Conservative Quarterly Review.
Lochhead, Marion C. Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake. John Murray.
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Cultural formation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The father's side of MEB 's family were landowners with a well-established estate at Skisdon Lodge, St Kew, Cornwall, though her father had trained to earn his living. In an interview in 1888 she...
Cultural formation Alison Uttley
She was born to rural working class parents. They were both fine story-tellers, though her father belonged to the oral rather than the literary tradition. As a child she was sent, by a mother whose...
Characters Catherine Gore
Like its predecessor, this novel recalls Jane Austen , but this time the plot (at least the earlier part) is closer to that of Sense and Sensibility. Marcia, a sensible elder sister, makes a...
Characters Angela Thirkell
AT ended her story with a reference to the evacuation from Dunkirk in 27 May-3 June 1940, which had taken place just before she handed in what she called ironically My Great War Novel.
Strickland, Margot. Angela Thirkell: Portrait of a Lady Novelist. Duckworth.
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Timeline

27 October 1931: In the general election, the National Coalition...

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27 October 1931

In the general election, the National Coalition Government won a landslide victory (a majority of nearly five hundred seats over the combined opposition) but became much more Conservative in tone than it had been. Most...

14 November 1935: A general election was held in Britain. The...

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14 November 1935

A general election was held in Britain. The Conservative Party polled most votes, and the National Coalition government was returned to power.

28 May 1937: Neville Chamberlain, as Conservative leader...

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28 May 1937

Neville Chamberlain , as Conservative leader within the coalition government called National, became British Prime Minister following Stanley Baldwin 's resignation.

26 July 1945: The postwar general election put the Labour...

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26 July 1945

The postwar general election put the Labour Party in power with a landslide victory. Clement Attlee became Prime Minister; prominent in his Cabinet were Herbert Morrison , Ernest Bevin , Hugh Dalton , and Sir...

Early 1948: In the spring the Conservative Party established...

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Early 1948

In the spring the Conservative Party established the Committee on Women's Questions , chaired by Malcolm McCorquodale .

March 1949: The Committee on Women's Questions issued...

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March 1949

The Committee on Women's Questions issued its report, A True Balance, which recommended that the Conservative Party should pursue equal pay when it regained office.

February 1951: The Bow Group was founded as an organisation...

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February 1951

The Bow Group was founded as an organisation of younger members of the Conservative Party , to carry out and publish research on political issues.

Late 1951: Winston Churchill's Conservative government...

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Late 1951

Winston Churchill 's Conservative government decided to remove the last traces of wartime austerity by ending the rationing system: it took them until 1954 to complete this process with the end of meat rationing.

6 April 1955: Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and...

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6 April 1955

Sir Anthony Eden became Prime Minister and new leader of the Conservative Party , following Churchill 's resignation.

26 May 1955: At the general election the Conservative...

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26 May 1955

At the general election the Conservative Party increased its majority (it had a particular majority among women voters); the number of women MPs went up from seventeen to twenty-four.

8 October 1959: In the general election the Conservatives...

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8 October 1959

In the general election the Conservatives under Harold Macmillan increased their majority. Margaret Thatcher (who had first stood for the safe Labour seat of Dartford in 1950) was elected Conservative member of parliament for Finchley.

November 1959: At the Labour Party conference in the wake...

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November 1959

At the Labour Party conference in the wake of Conservative electoral victory, leader Hugh Gaitskell proposed repealing Clause 4 of the party's constitution, the clause that set the goal of common ownership of the means...

July 1962: In a surprise move later called the night...

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July 1962

In a surprise move later called the night of the long knives, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan replaced a third of his Cabinet .

15 October 1964: The Labour Party came to precarious power...

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15 October 1964

The Labour Party came to precarious power in the general election by a majority of four seats; next day Harold Wilson became Prime Minister.

19 June 1970: The day after a surprise Conservative victory...

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19 June 1970

The day after a surprise Conservative victory in the general election, Edward Heath formed the government (succeeding to the Labour administration of Harold Wilson ).

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