Mass conservatism / Stuart Ball, Ian Holliday -- The making of Scottish Unionism, 1886-1914 / Catriona Burness -- Farmworkers and local conservatism in South-West Shropshire, 1916-23 / Nicholas Mansfield -- The Conservative Party and mass housing, 1918-39 / Kevin Morgan -- Speaking to democracy / Andrew Taylor -- Conservative women and voluntary social service, 1938-51 / James Hinton -- Echoes in the wilderness / Paul Martin -- Industrial relations as 'Human relations' / Peter Dorey -- Conservative Party activists and immigration policy from the late 1940s to the mid-1970s / N.J. Crowson -- The role of the Conservative Political Centre, 1945-98 / Philip Norton -- The Community Affairs Department, 1975-79 / Andrew Rowe -- Thatcherism and the British people / Brendan Evans
Summary
"The essays in this volume explore the relationship between the Conservative Party and the mass of the British people from the 1880s to the Thatcher and Major era. Several focus upon the party's sources of support and the ways in which it has sought to broaden these through shifts in policies, presentation and organisation."--Jacket
