RESOURCES

• Archives
• Books
• Internet links

For a history of the Conservative Party, click here. Also, for key information relating to Conservative Party leaders, Chairmen, Chief Whips and Chairmen of the 1922 Committee, you can read our key information fact sheet

Archives

The main Conservative Party archive is located at the

• Bodleian Library in Oxford. External link: http://www.conservativepartyarchive.org
• Bodleian Library Conservative Catalogue. External link: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/modern/cpa/catalogue.html

Churchill College, Cambridge has some excellent Conservative archives. Apart from the archives of Sir Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, Churchill College contains the personal and political archives of the following Conservative politicians. . .

• Julian Amery
• Leo Amery
• Arthur Balfour
• Henry Tufton Beamish
• Brendan Bracken
• Lord Carrington
• Sir Fred Catherwood
• Viscount Chandos
• Duncan Sandys
• Finchley & Golders Green Conservative Association
• Lord Hailsham
• Lord Halifax
• Leslie Hore-Belisha
• Sir John Hoskyns
• Lord Jenkin
• Viscount Kilmuir
• David Margesson
• Reginald Maudling
• Sir John Nott
• Enoch Powell
• John Redwood
• Sir Julian Ridsdale
• Selwyn Lloyd
• Christopher Soames
• Lord Swinton
• William Whitelaw

The following institutions have excellent Conservative historical resources

• Welsh Political Archives, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Tel 01970 632800 Website http://www.llgc.org.uk/lc/awg_s_awg.htm. The Welsh Political Archive was set up in 1983 to co-ordinate the collection of documentary evidence of all kinds about politics in Wales. It collects the records and papers of political parties, politicians, quasi-political organisations, campaigns and pressure groups; leaflets, pamphlets, ephemera, posters, photographs, and tapes of radio and television programmes. The WPA does not have a curatorial function: material is placed with the most appropriate collection, particularly the Archives Collection.
• There is an Internet Search engine which contains a database of all political archives in the UK. Click http://www.a2a.org.uk/

BOOKS

We are often asked for our recommendations for books on the history of Conservatism in Britain and the Conservative Party.

This is our list of Top Ten Conservative History Books.

• Recovering Power: Conservatives in Opposition Since 1867 edited Stuart Ball & Antony Seldon.
• Strange Death of Tory England by Geoffrey Wheatcroft
• Conservative Party: An Illustrated History by Antony Seldon & Peter Snowdon.
• History of Conservative Politics 1900-96 by John Charmley
• Conservative Party Since 1830 by N J Crowson
• The Tories: The Conservatives & the Nation State Since 1922 by Alan Clark
• Dictionary of Conservative Quotations edited by Iain Dale
• Ideologies of Conservatives by E H Green
• Political Thought of the Conservative Party Since 1845
• Conservative Party Manifestos 1900-1997 edited by Iain Dale

INTERNET LINKS

• British By Elections. Click http://www.geocities.com/by_elections/literature.html
• Liberal Democrat History Group. Click www.liberalhistory.org.uk
• Margaret Thatcher Foundation. Click www.margaretthatcher.org
• UK Election Results. Click http://www.election.demon.co.uk/

To suggest a link, please email it to us at info@conservativehistory.org.uk