Mark Garnett is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Lancaster University. He has written widely on Brtitish politics, in particular the relationship between ideas and practice. His books on the Conservative Party include acclaimed biographies of Tory grandees, Keith Joseph and Willie Whitelaw.

Introduction

1. The contestable conservative tradition: Burke to Southey

2. The Conservative Party from Peel to Salisbury

3. "Converging streams": British conservative thought from Southey to Cecil

4. The Conservative Party, 1902-45

5. "We must have an ideology": conservatism since the First World War

6. The Conservative Party since 1945

Conclusion: is conservatism dead?

A chronology of conservatism and the Conservative Party