Conservative Party

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
politics Benjamin Disraeli
As a Conservative MP, BD took a marked interest in the Chartist movement and supported the Corn Laws. He was a socially reforming and a markedly imperialist Prime Minister.
Theme or Topic Treated in Text May Crommelin
After this, run-of-the-mill romance for a long time eclipses the potentially subversive hunting angle. Jack and Violet are of course attracted to each other; from the first he is curious to see . ....
Occupation John Wilson Croker
JWC became a lawyer, (moving from Ireland to London after the Act of Union) a Tory MP, an editor of several eighteenth-century texts (including letters by Lady Hervey and by Henrietta Howard, Lady Suffolk )...
Textual Production Frances Power Cobbe
On the day that John Stuart Mill presented to Parliament the second suffrage petition of the week, FPC placed a double-column letter in the high Tory paper the Day supporting Female Franchise, and signed...
politics Frances Power Cobbe
FPC continued to involve herself in the anti-vivisection and suffrage movements after her move to Wales. When the Conservative government came into power in 1886 she pressed for female enfranchisement through party connections. In 1888...
Occupation Barbara Cartland
BC was elected, as a Conservative member for Hatfield, to the HertfordshireCounty Council , where she served until 1964.
Heald, Tim. A Life of Love: The Life of Barbara Cartland. Sinclair-Stevenson.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Burnet
Depending on her correspondent, EB writes like a scholar, an author, and a political lobbyist. To Trumbull, a moderate Tory , she paints the extremists in his party as a company of unjust & extravagant...
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...
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...

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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