Conservative Party

Commoners' Rights is a record of the warfare that started up and raged about Minchinhampton Common, ending in its ultimate purchase by the Nation. The cause of the commoners, first taken up by the...

Robert Southey was a Romantic poet, one of the Lake Poets with Wordsworth and Coleridge . In addition to epics, ballads, and other verse, he penned several plays and contributed regularly to the ToryQuarterly...

Early in life he embraced the egalitarian principles of the French Revolution and sought with his friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge to raise money for political ventures through writing. He later rejected his youthful idealism and...

It is set long ago in 1945, when all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions. It is a time, not quite peace and not quite war, between two armistice celebrations...

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.

After The Duke's Daughter, AT was delighted in Happy Returns, 1952 (Happy Return in the USA), to celebrate the Conservative return to power at the general election of 26 October 1951.

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...

EW was a twentieth-century novelist whose startling black humour goes together with devastating satire and a low estimate of unredeemed human nature (whether he is fictionalizing the failings of other people or of himself). He...

BW was appointed (in one of the last acts of Arthur Balfour 's Conservative government) to a Royal Commission on the Poor Law.