Quotation about Dorothy L. Sayers
A long piece about Dorothy L. Sayers’s conservatism is best described as work in progress though a few short postings have gone up from time to time, covering various aspects…
June 14, 1982
On June 14 as the defences of Port Stanley faltered and Mount Tumbledown was captured, a ceasefire was declared in the Falklands. On the same day the commander of the…
Radio 4 on British conservatism
It is a little difficult to listen to a series that is broadcast at 1.45 pm every day on Radio 4 in fifteen minute chunks but there will be a…
Chris Cooper on the first Lord Hailsham
The Conservative History Journal blog is very pleased to be publishing this article about an unjustly neglected Conservative politician and personality. The first Lord Hailsham played an important part in…
Professor Kenneth Minogue RIP
Each man’s death diminishes me. John Donne’s words echo in my mind as I think of the death, first heard of late last night, of Professor Ken Minogue (whoever called…
Nicolson and the theory of diplomacy
Sir Harold Nicolson, diplomat, writer, diarist, politician and gardener, belonged to several parties but never the Conservative one. In fact, he thought of himself as something of a radical and…
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell becomes Lord Protector on December 16, 1653. This was England’s only experiment with a republic and a military dictatorship (the two are not necessarily the same). It was…
Two tales of a Prime Minister
What better way to come back after a slight gap (again) than by two tales of possibly the greatest British Prime Minister of the twentieth century, Margaret Thatcher. One is…
A photograph of the Iron Duke
It is a daguerrotype really but they are early photographs so that counts. This came my way from Iconic Photos, a site I had not been aware of. It has…
June 6, 1944
“Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon a great crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the…