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Britannia’s Zealots, Volume I
Tradition, Empire and the Forging of
the Conservative Right
N.C. Fleming
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Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgements ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
1 Edwardian Crisis, 1900–14 35
2 Patriotism Strained, 1914–18 77
3 Breaking the Coalition, 1918–22 97
4 Democracy and Empire, 1922–35 125
5 Consensus and Disunity, 1935–40 177
Retrospect and Prospect 207
Notes 213
Bibliography 281
Index 311
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Illustrations
Figure 1 Lord Willoughby de Broke, by Henry Walter Barnett,
c .1910–1920 © National Portrait Gallery, London 44
Figure 2 Th e Earl of Halsbury, by Bassano Ltd, 1914. © National
Portrait Gallery, London 65
Figure 3 Sir Edward Carson, by John George Day, 1914 © National
Portrait Gallery, London 82
Figure 4 Th e Marquess of Salisbury, by Bassano, 1920 © National
Portrait Gallery, London 93
Figure 5 John Gretton, by Walter Stoneman, 1921. © National
Portrait Gallery, London 111
Figure 6 ‘Playthings’, 8 September 1920, University of Kent Cartoon
Archive © David Low and Solo Syndication 112
Figure 7 ‘Here they come for the fl op fi nal’, 22 April 1927, University
of Kent Cartoon Archive © David Low and Solo Syndication 127
Figure 8 Sir Henry Page Croft , by Bassano Ltd, 1929 © National Portrait
Gallery, London 132
Figure 9 Howell Arthur Gwynne, by Walter Stoneman, 1938
© National Portrait Gallery, London 147
Figure 10 Lord Lloyd, by Howard Coster, 1934 © National Portrait
Gallery, London 159
Figure 11 Victor Raikes, by Bassano Ltd, 1935 © National Portrait
Gallery, London 199
Figure 12 Viscount Wolmer, by Elliott and Fry, n.d. © National
Portrait Gallery, London 201
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Acknowledgements
Th e long gestation of this book has inevitably incurred a large number of debts.
Two semesters of research leave awarded by the University of Worcester, in
2013 and 2017, provided the necessary time and space for archival research and
writing. Th is was further assisted by a Visiting Fellowship, St Catherine’s College,
University of Oxford; Senior Associate Membership, St Antony’s College,
University of Oxford; and the Caird Research Fellowship, National Maritime
Museum, Greenwich. Additional fi nancial support towards archival research was
provided by the Scouloudi Research Award, Institute of Historical Research,
University of London; and research grants from the Historic Society for Lancashire
and Cheshire and the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society. Th e
Institute of Humanities, University of Worcester, generously covered the copyright
and reproduction costs of two illustrations. Practical and institutional support
was provided by an Associate Fellowship, Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
School of Advanced Study, University of London; and an Honorary Research
Fellowship, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University.
Th e book has benefi ted from the assistance of staff at the Arts and Social
Sciences Library, Cardiff University; the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford;
the British Library, St Pancras; the Caird Library, National Maritime Museum,
Greenwich; Cambridge University Library; the Churchill Archive Centre,
University of Cambridge; Durham County Record Offi ce; the Hive, University of
Worcester; the House of Commons Library, Westminster; Lancashire Archives,
Preston; Liverpool Record Offi ce; the Parliamentary Archive, Westminster; the
Public Record Offi ce of Northern Ireland; and Worcestershire Archives.
For access to manuscript sources, and permission to quote from them, I am
grateful to the British Library; the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford; the
Viscount Boyd; the Conservative Party; Dr Jeremy Hogg; Mrs Elizabeth Meynell;
the Warden and Scholars of New College, Oxford; the Chairman of the 1922
Committee; the Parliamentary Archive, Westminster; and the Earl of Selborne.
In some instances it has not been possible to trace the owners of copyright
material, for which I apologize. Permission to use material from articles
previously published in P arliamentary History and History was kindly granted
by Professor David Hayton and Professor Emma Griffi n respectively.
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