A Party Of Change
Product CodeBS001
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The Tories first appeared on the political scene exactly 340 years ago. In this lavishly illustrated publication, Alistair Cooke, the Conservative Party’s official historian, traces its evolution from its emergence in 1679-80 until today, putting the profound changes which David Cameron has introduced since 2005 into historical perspective. Did you know that when the Conservative Party first became a mass movement through its Primrose League in the late nineteenth century, women were admitted on equal terms with men, something that had never happened before in a political organisation? In this, and many other respects, the Conservatives have been standard-bearers for change over the centuries, as they are again today. Alistair Cooke includes a number of posters in the Party’s Archive at the Bodleian Library to help bring his wide-ranging, yet concise, historical survey to life. In his foreword David Cameron writes that ‘‘Conservatives take pride in their history. This timely publication will help everyone understand our history better’.
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