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The Conservative History Journal is published annually in the autumn. The latest issues are only available to subscribers, but you can buy back copies using the links below.

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Vol. II, Issue 9 (2021–22)

• Lord Lexden – At the Top of the Greasy Pole: Disraeli’s first premiership, Feb.–Dec. 1868
• Lord Lexden – The ‘Great Lord Salisbury’ and Reform of the House of Lords
• Ryan Blank – The 3rd Marquess of Bute: A visionary Conservative Unionist and ‘Home Ruler’
• Luke Stanley – ‘Economy Without Exception’: Lord Rothermere and the Anti-Waste League of 1921
• Richard A. Gaunt – The 1841 Election and the Triumph of Conservatism
• Marie Le Conte – An Honourable Misfit: Arthur MacMurrough Kavanagh, 1831–89
• Alex Deane – Lessons from History: Bob Boothby; Sir Walter Bromley-Davenport
• Lord Lexden – The Duke of Edinburgh and Parliament
• Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay – The Duke of Edinburgh and the IEA
• Dr. David Torrance – ‘More Ulster than Ulster itself’: Andrew Bonar Law and Northern Ireland, 1912–22
• C.D.C. Armstrong – Stratton Mills: a profile
• Lord Lexden – Remembering Sir Henry Wilson, the MP the IRA assassinated – and the Commons forgot
• Henry Hill – Campaign for a memorial shield to Sir Henry Wilson in the House of Commons
• Conference report: Dr. Nigel Fletcher on the Thatcher Network Conference 2021
• Book reviews
• Obituary – Mike Dolley

Vol. II, Issue 8 (Autumn 2020)

• Dr. Emily Jones ­– Becoming Burke
• Stephen Parkinson – Call for the Doctor: The under-rated premiership of Henry Addington, 1801–04
• Andrew Penson – More Than a Simple Squire: The significance of Henry Chaplin, 1840–1923
• Lord Sheikh – Sir Mancherjee Bhownaggree: The first Indian Conservative MP
• Lord Lexden OBE – The First Conservative College
• Daniel Smith – The Peer and the Gangster: How Lord Boothby escaped exposure in 1964
• Chris James – A record number of recounts: Brighton Kemptown, 1964
• Feature: Before the ‘Red Wall’
• Lord Lexden – VE Day in Parliament: Churchill’s victory statement in the Lords Chamber; and Churchill’s Unexpected Election Disaster: The 1945 Labour landslide 75 years on
• Richard Ritchie – Scotland, England, and the West Lothian Question: The Parliamentary Debates
• Dermot Gleeson – Conservatism and Ideology
• Book reviews
• Obituary – Peter Cropper

Vol. II, Issue 7 (Autumn 2019)

• Dr. Kathryn Rix – ‘The backbone of the party’: The Conservative agents, 1880–1910
• Isobel White & Oonagh Gay – Norah Runge: a constituency MP ahead of her time
• The Hon. George Brandis QC – Isaiah Berlin and the defence of liberty
• Iain Carter – A lonely space record: Britain’s Black Arrow rocket and the Prospero satellite
• Khurram Jowiya – Conservatives and the first European elections
• Prof. Sarah Richardson – Gentleman Jack: a gripping nineteenth-century tale of one woman’s bravery in sex and politics
• Nic Crowe – Not a PEST at all: Michael Spicer’s Pressure for Economic and Social Toryism
• Nigel Morris – The Private Mr. Peel and The Peel Society: the first 40 years
• Dr. Jacqui Turner – Keeping up the legacy of Nancy Astor: 100 years since the first woman took her seat in Parliament
• Alexis Bowater – The Nancy Astor Statue Appeal: how history is being made again
• Lord Lexden OBE – Airey Neave and Ulster, 1975–79
• Emmeline Ledgerwood – Airey Neave: working for science in parliament
• Conference reports – ‘40 Years of Thatcherism?’, University of Derby; ‘Margaret Thatcher: 40 Years On’, Somerville College, Oxford
• News and reviews

Vol. II, Issue 6 (Autumn 2018)

• The Earl of Kerry – Lord Lansdowne and the ‘Peace Letter’ of 1917
• Prof. T.G. Otte – ‘From a purely diplomatic and political point of view’: The Balfour Declaration, 1917
• Dr. Philip Salmon – The 1818 General Election: More change than meets the eye
• Dr. Mari Takayanagi – Alice Lucas: The first Conservative woman to stand for Parliament
• Lord Lexden OBE – The suffragists’ victory
• Jacqui Smith – The Honourable Ladies: Compiling profiles of women MPs, 1918–1996
• Theo Barclay – Katharine Atholl: ‘The Red Duchess
• Iain Carter – On Broad and Solid Foundations: Churchill and the development of Britain’s National Health Service
• Andrew Gimson – Henry Willink: The Conservative who proposed a National Health Service before Bevan created one
• Lord Lexden – Stanley Baldwin: the champion of national unity
• Andrew Sharpe OBE – The Conservative National Convention: a view from the Chairman
• Jeremy McIlwaine – A century and a half of the National Union of Conservative & Unionist Associations
• Rob Phillips – Conservatives in the Welsh Political Archive at the National Library of Wales
• Katherine Carter – What it’s like to live at Chartwell
• Conference report: A Century of Women MPs, 1918–2018
• Book reviews
• Obituaries – Jeremy Catto; Pam Powell

Vol. II, Issue 5 (Autumn 2017)

• Andrew Connell – Claude Lowther, 1870–1929: Wit, Tragedy, Melodrama and Mystery in Public Life
• N.C. Fleming – The rise of women Conservatives in inter-war Lancashire
• Adrian Phillips – Chronicle of a Conspiracy Foretold: MI5, Churchill and the ‘King’s Party’ in the Abdication Crisis
• Damian Collins MP – The Charmed Life of Philip Sassoon
• Jason Charalambous – The campaign to save Trent Park: Establishing a museum of national importance
• Lord Lexden – Anthony Eden: A Man of Peace
• Luke Stanley – Where Brexit Began: The ‘Bastards’ of the Maastricht Rebellion
• Michael McManus – Heath at 100: a singular life reassessed
• Prof. the Lord Bew – Churchill and Ireland
• Cormac Shine – Tory Trinity: The 1964 Committee and student politics at Trinity College Dublin, 1964–70
• Oongah Gay – Patricia Ford MP: The first woman to sit for a Northern Ireland constituency
• Lord Lexden – The Tories and The Somme
• Book reviews
• Obituaries – Dr. Helen Szamuely; Lord Parkinson

Vol. II, Issue 4 (Autumn 2015)

• Lord Lexden – Wellington and Waterloo: His victory and the political aftermath
• Sam Blaxland – The Curious Case of Ted Dexter and Cardiff South East
• Dr. Gareth Davies – Some reflections on Conservative-Liberal relations in the age of Baldwin and MacDonald
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – ‘A great Imperialist, a great woman and a great lady’: Lady Knightley, of Fawsley (1842–1913)
• Luke Maynard – Tory Splits over Revolutionary Russia, 1918–20
• Stephen Parkinson – Mavis Tate and the Horrors of Buchenwald
• Dr. A. Warren Dockter – Winston Churchill and Islam
• David Lough – ‘The hinge of fate’: Churchill’s financial turnaround in the Second World War
• Prof. John Charmley – Churchill’s darkest hour: Gallipoli 100 years on
• Brian Curragh – Arthur O’Neill and the Lost Generation of Ulster Unionists
• Dr. Nigel Keohane – Sitting with the Enemy: The Asquith coalition through a Conservative lens
• Conference reports: Dr. Julie V. Gottlieb on ‘Rethinking Right-Wing Women’; Alan Wager and Charles Clarke on the Conservative Leaders Symposium
• Book reviews
• Obituary – Sir Tony Garner

Vol. II, Issue 3 (Autumn 2014)

• Lord Lexden – The Hanoverian Succession and the Downfall of the Tory Party: a tercentenary essay
• Dr. Matthew Francis – Searching for Constructive Conservatism: a short history of the property-owning democracy
• Stephen Parkinson – Sir Geoffrey Butler and the Tory Tradition
• Prof. Simon Ball – Prime Ministers in the First World War
• Nigel West – MI5 in the Great War
• Feature – the Conservative and Unionist MPs killed in the First World War
• Michael Steed – Baldwin’s First Broadcast
• Dr. John W. Hawkins – The Queen’s Member: the unregretted life of Col. Robert Richardson-Gardner
• Dr. Richard A. Gaunt – A Power Behind the Throne? Sir Robert Peel, Prince Albert, and the making of the modern monarchy
• Feature – Joseph Chamberlain a century after his death – with contributions from Dr. Ian Cawood, Lord Carrington of Fulham, and Nick Timothy
• News and Reviews – the Class of 1974; the locations of Central Office; beards in the Cabinet
• Book reviews

Vol. II, Issue 2 (Autumn 2013)

• Jesse Norman MP – Edmund Burke: the first Conservative
• N.C. Fleming – Stanley Baldwin, The Times, and Indian self-government
• Christopher Cooper – The first but forgotten Lord Hailsham, 1872–1950
• Lord Hurd of Westwell and Edward Young – The Mistaken Myth of Disraeli
• Prof. the Lord Norton of Louth – The 1922 Committee: from humble origins to being the party’s king-maker
• D.R. Thorpe – The October 1963 Conservative Party Conference
• Lord Hunt of Wirral – Memories of Blackpool ’63
• Nicholas Hillman – From Grants to Loans: the political consequences of student finance
• Gareth Davies – A Coalition Revisited: the career of Sir Arthur Griffith-Boscawen
• Feature – Margaret Thatcher passes into history – with contributions from Charles Moore, Andrew Roberts, Robin Harris, Chris Collins, and Jeremy McIlwaine
• News and Reviews – The Profumo Affair’s 50th anniversary; Sir Robert Peel’s 225th
• Interview with playwright James Graham, writer of This House
• Book reviews
• Lord Lexden – Keith Middlemas, 1935–2013
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Vol. II, Issue 1 (Autumn 2012)

• D.R. Thorpe – The Night of the Long Knives
• Seth Thévoz – Churchill and the Dundee Unionists, 1908–22
• Stephen Parkinson – The St. Stephen’s Club, 1870–2012
• Nicholas Hillman – The public schools question, Rab Butler, and the Fleming Report of 1944
• Bill Cash MP – John Bright: a Conservative?
• Lord Lexden OBE – The formation of the Conservative & Unionist Party 100 years ago
• Jeremy McIlwaine – The work of the Conservative Party Archive
• Stephen Parkinson – Tory Olympians: Conservative Parliamentarians and the modern Olympic Games
• Feature – Spencer Perceval: notes on the bicentenary of his assassination
• News and Reviews – Enoch at 100; Opening the door on Downing Street’s past
• Book reviews
• Lord Lamont of Lerwick – Lord St. John of Fawsley, 1929–2012
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Vol. I, Issue 10* (Summer 2011)

• Colin Oldroyd – Sir Stafford Northcote: A lost Tory Leader
• Lord Lexden – The Stag at Bay: Disraeli, Bentinck and the downfall of Peel
• Prof. Tim Bale – Churchill’s Lib-Con Plan
• Stephen Parkinson – No Alternative: the unhappy history of the Alternative Vote
• Ronald Porter – Obituary: Lord Walker of Worcester, 1932–2010
• Nicholas Hillman – Remembering John Ramsden
• Book reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 9* (Winter 2009–10)

• J.M.A. Inglis – Lord Liverpool
• Sten A. Hankewitz – Arthur Balfour: the man behind Israel’s right to exist
• Mark Coalter – Professor John Ramsden
• Keith Simpson MP – Ion Trewin on ‘Clark of Toad Hall’
• Gordon Hector – ‘Where there is error, let us bring truth’: Margaret Thatcher’s history
• Dr. Kenneth Baxter – Florence Gertrude Horsbrugh: The Conservative Party’s Forgotten First Lady
• Ronald Porter – Lady Butler of Saffron Walden, 1907–2009
• Gavin Lambert – Winston Churchill: An Arthurian hero or just a politician?
• Gerard Charmley – The House of Dynevor and Conservative Politics, 1910–38
• John Hirst – Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes, 1769–1825
• David McCann – The Demise and Rise of the Conservative movement in Canada
• Justin Kempley – How far was the Falklands War the main reason for Thatcher’s 1983 victory?
• Book reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 8* (Winter 2008)

• Dr. Mitzi Auchterlonie – ‘To work for women’s enfranchisement’: The quiet campaign of the Conservative & Unionist Women’s Franchise Association, 1908–14
• Dr. Alistair Cooke OBE – ‘The Club whose time has come again’: The Carlton Club, 1832-2007
• Charles Dudgeon – Were the Tories Jacobites?
• Prof. John Charmley – The Conservative tradition in foreign policy (interview)
• Dr. Richard A. Gaunt – Disraeli’s historical reputation and the repeal of the Corn Laws
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – The first Birmingham Conference, 1883
• Prof. Robert Self – Neville Chamberlain and the long shadow of the ‘Guilty Men’
• Dr. Timothy Heppell – No More than Another Major? How William Hague became Leader of the Conservative Party
• Tim Sansom – Marketing the Tories in Opposition: a difficult tale
• Nicholas Hillman – The ‘Rivers of Blood’ forty years on
• Prof. David Dutton – ‘Ernie’: A centennial reassessment of Ernest Marples
• Lee Peck – Winning before the Falklands: Thatcher’s subordination of a political party
• Jamie Martin – Of Course it was the Conservatives Wot Won It: re-thinking the 1992 general election
• Book reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 7 (Autumn 2007)

• Dr. Alistair Cooke OBE – How Miss Brant saved the Prime Minister
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – Reclaiming Jane Austen
• Charles Dudgeon – A Scottish Prime Minister: the 3rd Earl of Bute, 1713–92
• Ian Pendlington – Waiting for Winston: Churchill’s last days as Prime Minister
• Mark Coalter – What Jonathan Did Next (interview with Jonathan Aitken)
• Nick Powell – The Conservative from Ukraine: Stefan Terlezki, 1927–2006
• David Torrance – Conservative Scottish Secretaries
• Ronald Porter – Obituary: Lord Rawlinson of Ewell, 1919–2006
• Ronald Porter – Obituary: Lord Harris of High Cross, 1924–2006
• Colin Baillieu – Obituary: Lord Biffen of Tanant, 1930–2007
• Book reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 6 (Autumn 2006)

• Adrian Brettle – The Conservative Party and the primacy of foreign policy
• Peter Mangold – The Elusive Friendship: Harold Macmillan and Charles de Gaulle
• Ronald Porter – ‘I did not have sex with that woman…’: The Profumo Affair
• John Barnes – ‘Crisis, what crisis?’: the Profumo Affair and Macmillan’s leadership
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – War, propaganda and the conservative point of view
• Mark Coalter – Sir Henry Wilson: Imperial solider, political failure
• Book reviews

Vol. I, Issue 5 (Autumn 2005)

• Interview with Prof. John Charmley
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – So what are we to make of Sir Edward Heath?
• Ronald Porter – A personal view of Sir Edward Heath
• John Barnes – Edward Heath: A personal recollection and appraisal
• Harshan Kumarasingham – ‘Home Sweet Home’: The Problematic Leadership of Sir Alec Douglas-Home
• Ian Pendlington – ‘Put up or Shut Up’: the Conservative Leadership contest of 1995
• Dr. Scott Kelly – ‘The Ghost of Neville Chamberlain’: Guilty Men and the 1945 election
• Book Reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 4 (Winter 2004)

• Dr. Helen Szamuely – The 75th Anniversary of the Conservative Research Department
• Dr. Mark Garnett – interview with James Douglas (CRD, 1950–77)
• Dr. Alistair Cooke – The Conservative Research Department’s First 75 Years
• Ronald Porter – ‘Rum, Buggery & the Lash’: the truth about Lord Boothby
• Mark Coalter – Robert Boothby: Icon of an Extant Era
• Bendor Grosvenor – ‘Shopping for the Canal’: Derby, Disraeli & the Suez Canal
• Prof. Philip Cowley & Mark Stuart – Conservative Backbench Dissent under Iain Duncan Smith
• Book Reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 3 (Summer 2004)

• Interview with Andrew Roberts
• Lord Tebbit and Lord Howe – Thatcher: Her legacy for the Conservatives and for Britain
• Nicholas Hillman – Hilda’s Cabinet Band: Songs inspired by Margaret Thatcher
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – A strangely familiar voice (review of Margaret Thatcher’s speeches on CD)
• Harshan Kumarasingham – The Political Demise of Neville Chamberlain
• Mark Coalter – Capturing the Middle Ground: Disraeli’s 1872 Blueprint for Electoral Success
• Geoffrey Hicks – Lord Derby’s Shadowy Foreign Secretary
• Bendor Grosvenor – The Man Who Would Be Prime Minister: Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt.
• John Barnes – Party Colours
• Book Reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 2 (Autumn 2003)

• Prof. John Charmley – Obituary: Lord Blake
• Julia Fea – The Men Behind the Throne: Baldwin, Churchill & the Abdication Crisis
• Simon Jenkins – Lessons from History
• Adrian Brettle – Endless Opposition
• Stephen Barber – ‘No Change, No Chance’: Economic failure and the 1995 Tory Leadership Crisis
• Mark Versaillon – Promoting Civic Consciousness
• Mark Coalter – Andrew Bonar Law: Politics and Leadership, 1911–15
• Dr. Helen Szamuely – Lord Curzon on Russia & the Russians
• Christopher Pincher – Walter Eliot: A Conservative Life
• Book Reviews
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Vol. I, Issue 1 (Summer 2003)

• Nicholas Hillman – Enoch Powell’s Vital Statistics
• Prof. John Charmley – The Conservative Tradition in Foreign Policy
• Andrew Lownie – John Buchan: Conservative Politician
• Dr. Mark Garnett – A Farewell to Biography
• Matthew Bailey & Philip Cowley – Choosing the Lady: another look at the 1975 leadership contest
• Leslie Mutch – Obituary: Lord Mackay of Ardbrecknish
• Sheila Moore – How Rab Butler Decriminalised Suicide
• Martin Ball – Memories of Alan Clark
• David Willetts – The Conservatives in Opposition: Lessons from history
• Ian Pendlington – Baldwin: the original Quiet Man
• John Barnes – How the Tory Party Got That Name
• Book Reviews
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* Issues 8–10 were incorrectly issued as numbers 7–9 and have been renumbered accordingly.

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