Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive study of the relationship between the Conservative party and the far-right in Britain from 1945 to 1975.
Trade ReviewPitchford has, for the first time, brought together details of the myriad groups that exisited on the Party's Right in the 30 years after the end of the Second World War.
Pitchford treats the reader to an investigation of organizations well beyond the usual suspects of the National Front and the Monday Club.
...the first detailed research on these matters in the Conservative Party's own archives and has produced an original and valuable account of the process by which Tory strategists sought to marginalise nationalist and other 'extremist' movements both by purging their own ranks and by incorporating a sanitised version of the nationalist agenda.
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Table of ContentsPreface
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The shock of opposition 1945-1951
2. Consensus Conservatism and extreme-right revival 1951-57
3. Macmillan and Home: ‘Pink socialism’ and ‘true-blue’ Conservatism
4. Edward Heath: a rightwards turn and the coalescence of the extreme right, 1964-70
5. ‘Heathco’ meets the extreme challenge
Conclusion: Keeping it right
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