Book Launch 'The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945-1997'

Wales is often considered to be one of the most anti-Conservative parts of Britain. Sam Blaxland’s The Conservative Party in Wales, 1945–1997 is the first book-length study of Wales’s second largest political party in the decades after the Second World War. From the places where Conservatism was often successful, the book questions why it did not succeed in other parts of Wales, discussing how the party communicated its policies, who its candidates were, and how the party deliberately crafted specific policies ‘for the nation’ – from introducing the first Minister for Welsh Affairs to making Welsh a compulsory subject in schools. The book scrutinises activists and prominent Tories, asking what they reveal about understudied aspects of Welsh history, particularly the lives of the Anglicised and socially conservative middle class.

The event is sponsored by Samuel Kurtz MS

Main Hall, Pierhead Building, 14th May 2024 at 1800.
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For more information about the book or to buy a copy, head to: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-conservative-party-in-wales-1945-1997/