A *second* newsletter in May??? We're spoiling you!

📅Events: Conservatism and the Climate Crisis (Mile End Institute) & England in the World
📝Call for papers: Oral history and politics workshop
✍️Call for submissions: Handbook - History of the Tory Party

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Tripped up Dr David Jeffery on our pre-book launch morning run. This town's only big enough for one post-1945 Tory historian

This will be great. Sam’s work is key to moving beyond lazy tropes about Wales as somehow innately social democratic, or tories as English incomers. There has always been a local middle class & there has always been a strong Tory presence here. Get to it if you’re in Cardiff

Final call for my book launch tomorrow evening, with registration link ⤵️. Really looking forward to seeing some of you there!

New call for papers!

Oral history and politics: a one-day workshop
Friday 28th June 2024 @ UCL

Send abstracts to Sam Blaxland

More info here: mailchi.mp/ddc1b323cffa/h… Pls share!

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Sam Blaxland Congratulations on the book, Sam. Before reading it I thought it might be dry, but that’s far from the case. Your analysis of the social history of the period and its impact on the Tory party is particularly interesting.

Thank you, Martin Shipton, for a kind review of my book – and a detailed engagement with one of the more eye-catching elements of it, namely the role Enoch Powell played in the devolution process.

One week until I launch my new book on the Conservatives in Wales. All welcome! Please do come along if you're interested.

About to earn my stripes as both a politico and an Evans by reading Sam Blaxland’s new book on the Conservative Party in Wales.

Happily for an academic book, it begins like a thriller: ‘In July 1980, two bombs were planted in Wales by opponents of the Conservative Party…’

BOOK LAUNCH! 🥳 My book on the Conservative Party in Wales will be launched on the evening of Tuesday 14th May, in Cardiff Bay. Everyone welcome, but please sign up using the link below 👇. I think it's going to be a great evening.

NEW #OppositionCast Episode:
Wales is often seen as one of the most anti-Tory parts of the UK, but in the postwar period the Conservative Party has remained in second place to Labour there. We speak to @samblaxland about his new book on the subject:
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📘🎉New book 🎉📘

The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945–1997 is now out!

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