1st Edition
Conservative Politics in National and Imperial Crisis Letters from Britain to the Viceroy of India 1926-31
By Stuart Ball
Copyright 2014
446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
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Whilst serving in the prestigious post of Viceroy of India between 1926 and 1931, Lord Irwin (later the Earl of Halifax) was kept informed about political events in Britain by frequent and lengthy letters from Cabinet Ministers, senior Conservative MPs and other prominent figures, such as the editor of The Times. Covering events from the General Strike of May 1926 to Irwin’s negotiation of a pact... Read more
1. 1926 : the general strike and the coal dispute; 2. 1927 : the Trade Disputes Act and the Prayer Book controversy; 3. 1928 : the de-rating scheme and the liberal revival; 4. 1929 : the general election and the Irwin declaration; 5. 1930 : the Conservative Party crisis and the Round Table Conference; 6. 1931 : the survival of Baldwin and the Irwin-Gandhi pact;
Biography
Stuart Ball is Professor of Modern British History at the University of Leicester, and a leading authority on the history of the Conservative Party. His previous books include Winston Churchill (British Library, 2003) and Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918-1945 (Oxford University Press, 2013).
’This collection will provide a useful supplement to the series of primary source documents published on interwar Conservative politics, which has been notably bolstered in recent years by the publication of major volumes of correspondence produced by Neville Chamberlain and Stanley Baldwin. It will be a useful resource for those with an interest in Conservative politics, Anglo-Indian relations, and interwar British politics more broadly.’ Twentieth Century British History
