Conservative History Journal

Tory Historian is, as all readers of this blog know, a great fan of detective stories, particularly those of the Golden Age (and before) but not so enamoured of modern writers continuing sagas, being fully in agreement with this waspish analysis. Two minor additions are required: Jill Paton Walsh's subsequent Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Attenbury Emeralds, was extremely poor and the character of Hercule Poirot is being revived by...

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1886 was an important election in British history as it ended the Liberal dominance of parliamentary politics that had given that party victory in five of the six elections since 1859 and power for seventeen of those twenty-seven years. In the subsequent nineteen years the Libearals would hold power for only three of them. The results were particularly spectacular as the previous year the Liberals had won again but Gladstone's growing obsession with Home Rule for Ireland split his party. The Conservatives under Lord Salisbury...

Tory Historian salutes the great Duke of Wellington, whose birthday it is today. As he was born in 1769, this is not a particularly notable anniversary (345 years) but worth remembering. On to another Conservative politician, Lord Curzon. Tory Historian was re-reading David Gilmour's biography of the great man and came across the following paragraph in the chapter about his Oxford years when he began to establish in his own mind what he wanted to do in life: Curzon was never a political intellectual. He cared for the display...