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The road to 1931: the Conservative party and political realignment in early twentieth-century Britain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

David Jarvis
David Jarvis
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Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
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The Historical Journal , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 469 - 475
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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2 As well as the books reviewed here, some other examples of this trend are: Thompson, J. A. and Meija, A., eds, Edwardian conservatism: five studies in adaptation (London, 1988)Google Scholar; Honderich, T., Conservatism (London, 1990)Google Scholar; Eccleshall, R., English conservatism since the Reformation (London, 1990)Google Scholar; McKibbin, R. I., ‘Class and conventional wisdom: the Conservative party and the public in inter-war Britain’, in The ideologies of class: social relations in Britain 1880–1950 (Oxford, 1990), pp. 259–93Google Scholar; Clarke, P., The Keynesian revolution in the making 1924–36 (Oxford, 1990)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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