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British Conservatism: The Grand TourEpisodes

  1. 13/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy on Mrs Thatcher's father and the transformation of conservatism.

  2. 12/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy explores how the 'permissive society' provoked a new, populist conservatism.

  3. 11/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy explores conservative responses to postwar affluence and the welfare state.

  4. 10/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy explores how mass democracy split conservatism into moderates and militants.

  5. 09/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy goes to Tyneside to rediscover the 'conserving crowds' of the Edwardian era.

  6. 06/09/2013

    In a Sheffield pub, Anne McElvoy learns how conservatism responded to urban mass democracy

  7. 05/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy on Victorian critic John Ruskin's showdown with the merchants of Bradford.

  8. 04/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy traces how the threat of Free Trade stung a placid aristocrat into action.

  9. 03/09/2013

    Anne McElvoy explores how Thomas Carlyle reacted against the Industrial Revolution.

  10. 02/09/2013

    How the French Revolution shocked Edmund Burke into defending British traditions.