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The Conservative party remains the longest-established major political party in modern British history. This collection makes available 19th century documents illuminating aspects of Conservatism through a critical period in the party's history, from 1830 to 1874. It throws light on Conservative ideas, changing policies, party organisation and popular partisan support, showing how Conservatism evolved and responded to domestic and global change. It explores how certain clusters of ideas and beliefs comprised a Conservative view of political action and purposes, often reinforcing the importance of historic institutions such as the Anglican Church, the monarchy and the constitution. It also looks at the ways in which a broadening electorate required the marshalling of Conservative supporters through greater party organisation, and how the Conservative party became the embodiment and expression of durable popular political sentiment. The collection examines how the Conservative party became a body seeking to deliver progress combined with stability. The documents brought together in this collection give direct voice to how Conservatives of the period perceived and extolled their aspirations, aims, and the values of Conservatism. Introductory essays highlight the main themes and nature of Conservatism in a dynamic age of change and how the Conservative axiom, in an imperfect world of successful adaptation, being essential to effective preservation informed and defined the Conservative party, the views of its leaders, the beliefs of its supporters, and the political outlook they espoused. This fourth volume continues exploring the period 1850-1874.

The Conservative party remains the longest-established major political party in modern British history. This collection makes available 19th century documents illuminating aspects of Conservatism through a critical period in the party's history, from 1830 to 1874. It throws light on Conservative ideas, changing policies, party organisation and popular partisan support, showing how Conservatism evolved and responded to domestic and global change. It explores how certain clusters of ideas and beliefs comprised a Conservative view of political action and purposes, often reinforcing the importance of historic institutions such as the Anglican Church, the monarchy and the constitution. It also looks at the ways in which a broadening electorate required the marshalling of Conservative supporters through greater party organisation, and how the Conservative party became the embodiment and expression of durable popular political sentiment. The collection examines how the Conservative party became a body seeking to deliver progress combined with stability. The documents brought together in this collection give direct voice to how Conservatives of the period perceived and extolled their aspirations, aims, and the values of Conservatism. Introductory essays highlight the main themes and nature of Conservatism in a dynamic age of change and how the Conservative axiom, in an imperfect world of successful adaptation, being essential to effective preservation informed and defined the Conservative party, the views of its leaders, the beliefs of its supporters, and the political outlook they espoused.

Architecture and politics in the Palace of Westminster, 1399 to the present / J.P.D. Cooper and Richard A. Gaunt -- The Painted Chamber at Westminster and the openings of Parliament, 1399-1484 / Jennifer Caddick -- The Elizabethan House of Commons and St. Stephen's Chapel Westminster / J.P.D. Cooper -- The sound of debate in Georgian England : auralising the House of Commons / Catriona Cooper -- Ventilating the Commons, heating the Lords, 1701-1834 / Elizabeth Hallam Smith -- "A sense of crowd and urgency" : atmosphere and inconvenience in the Chamber of the Old House of Commons / Paul Seaward -- Parliament as viewed through a woman's eyes : gender and space in the 19th-century Commons / Sarah Richardson -- St. Stephen's in war and peace : civil defence and the location of Parliament, 1938-51 / Miles Taylor -- The Palace of Westminster : another window of opportunity? / Leanne-Marie Cotter.

Clyve Jones and parliamentary history / D.W.Hayton -- The Duke's parrot : the Earl of Leicester, the King's children and the English Revolution / Jason Peacey -- The 'little palaces' of St James's : ladies, lords, and political association under the later Stuarts / Frances Harris -- Republicans, Unionists and Jacobites :the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the restoration of the British Parliament / Graham Townend -- Playing with fire : the 4th Duke of Hamilton's Jacobite politics and the Union / Daniel Szechi -- ''Tis not in the power of words to tell what my heart feels in favour of you'; or, What the Ossulston diary does not reveal / Charles Littleton -- Party and management in the Irish House of Lords, 1713-15 / D.W.Hayton -- The Members of the House of Lords and the Hanoverian Succession / Stuart Handley -- 'A reward for so meritorious an action'? : Lord Hervey's summons to the House of Lords and Walpole's management of the upper chamber (1727-42) / Robin Eagles -- 'Hereditary guardians of the nation' : the House of Lords and the East India Company in the age of the American Revolution / Richard Connors and Ben Gilding -- A great electioneer and his motives reconsidered : the 4th Duke of Newcastle / Richard A. Gaunt -- Fixing the membership of the Lords and Commons : the case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham by-election,1834 205 / John Beckett -- Bibliography of the published works of Clyve Jones.