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The Summer Schools and Other Educational Activities of the British Conservative Party*
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The British Conservative party recommenced its normal activities after the party truce of the World War years in fundamentally different circumstances. The electorate had been vastly expanded, and the Conservatives faced a formidable new opponent in the Labor party. There was danger that the mass following of the party might be lured away by this new opponent, and there was the necessity of gaining the allegiance of a large number of the new voters.
These tasks of holding the old adherents of the party and gaining new recruits were assigned in large measure to labor committees, widely organized as an integral part of the constituency organizations, and the Central Labor Committee which was set up as a subcommittee of the executive council of the National Unionist Association.
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1 The work of the Labor groups has been described in “The Summer Schools and Other Educational Activities of British Socialist Groups”, in this Review, Vol. 30, pp. 956–974 (October, 1936)Google Scholar. See also “The Summer Schools and Other Educational Activities of the British Liberal Party,” ibid., Vol. 31, pp. 703–719 (August, 1937).
2 On the early summer schools, see the reports of the annual conferences of the National Unionist Association; Conservative Agents' Journal, Nos. 15 n.s. (September, 1920), 24 n.s. (June, 1921), 27 n.s. (September, 1921), and 28 n.s. (October, 1921); Popular View, or Home and Politics, Nos. 2 n.s. (June, 1921), 12 n.s. (April, 1922), and 23 n.s. (March, 1923); Conservative Clubs Gazette, Vol. 26, No. 329 (August, 1922)Google Scholar.
3 Accounts of the origin and early arrangements of Philip Stott College may be found in the following: London Times, March 29, April 4, September 26, 27, and 28, 1923; Home and Politics, No. 23 n.s. (March, 1923); The Conservative Woman (Leeds), Vol. 3, No. 40 (March, 1923)Google Scholar; and the original prospectus. Subsequent developments may be traced in the files of the same publications, the reports of the annual conferences of the National Unionist Association, Conservative Clubs Gazette, Conservative Agents' Journal, and The Imp (magazine of the Junior Imperial League, beginning in May, 1925).
4 London Times, February 13 and April 3, 1926. The Young Conservatives' Union was a newly formed organization of young activists, especially interested in social reform and desirous of giving party and social service. See ibid., February 17, 1924.
5 London Times, May 21, 1928.
6 See especially, among many statements of this line of thought, Buchan, John (Lord Tweedsmuir), “The Conservative Educational Institute and Its Mission”, Conservative Clubs Gazette, Vol. 32, No. 398 (May, 1928)Google Scholar. See also Handbook and Directory of Adult Education, 1928–1929, p. 115.
7 London Times, November 23 and 24, 1926.
8 Report of the Council of the National Unionist Association to the Fifty-Fifth Annual Conference … 1927, p. 49.
9 A demand was made in the annual conference of 1934 for the revival of correspondence study. See London Times, October 6, 1934, and March 28, 1935.
10 A similar scheme had been bruiled within the Independent Labor party a little earlier.
11 Bryant, Arthur, “The Story of Ashridge”, Nineteenth Century, Vol. 106, pp. 107–117 (July, 1929)Google Scholar.
12 See a letter by Hoskins, General in London Times, May 7, 1934Google Scholar.
13 The party organization of children of six to fourteen years.
14 London Times, November 4, 1930.
15 BonarLaw Memorial Trust v. Inland Revenue Commissioners (1933), 49 Times Law Reports 220Google Scholar.
16 The writer did not have an opportunity to attend any lectures at Ashridge, but he visited the place and found a definitely academic atmosphere prevailing. He did, however, hear many lectures in other political schools conducted by the Conservative party which were dignified, informing, and altogether of a high order.
17 Report of the Council of the National Unionist Association to the Fifty-fifth Annual Conference … 1927, p. 50; Women's Organization of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, Report of the Eighth Annual Conference … 1927.
18 Women's Organization of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, Report of the Tenth Annual Conference … 1930.
19 London Times, October 25, November 26 and 29, 1932.
20 On women's educational activities see: Women's Organization of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, Report of the Sixth, etc., Annual Conference … 1925, etc. (London, 1925–)Google Scholar; Home and Politics, Nos. 1–8 (September, 1920–April, 1921), No. 1, etc., new series (May, 1921–); The Conservative Woman (Leeds), Vol. 1, No. 16, etc. (June, 1922–)Google Scholar; National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, The Popular View, Vol. 1, No. 1–Vol. 3, No. 13 (May, 1921–May, 1924)Google Scholar, continued as The Man in the Street, Vol. 4, No. 1, etc. (June, 1924–)Google Scholar.
21 Junior Imperial and Constitutional League, Annual Reports, 1919, etc. (London, 1919–)Google Scholar; The Imp., Vol. 1, No. 1 (May, 1925–)Google Scholar.
22 Hallett, H. I. P., “The Young Brigade: The Junior Imperial League and Its Work”, Conservative and Unionist, Vol. 7, No. 8 (August, 1911)Google Scholar.
23 Stanley, Lord, “The Story of the League”, The Imp, Vol. 3 n.s., No. 6 (March, 1928)Google Scholar.
24 Conservative Agents' Journal, No. 14 n.s. (August, 1920).
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