Along with liberalism and socialism, it is one of the major political ideologies in the UK.
Entries on the list must have achieved notability after the writing of Reflections on the Revolution in France which is often seen as the starting point of conservatism.[7]
The son of a high church Anglican, Olivier was a lifelong Conservative. In 1983, he wrote to congratulate Margaret Thatcher following her victory in that year's General Election.[87]
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^Greenblatt, Stephen (2012). The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. p. 187. ISBN 978-0-39391252-4.
^Dennis O'Keeffe; John Meadowcroft (2009). Edmund Burke. Continuum. p. 93. ISBN 978-0826429780.
^Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies: An Introduction. Third Edition. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. 74.
^F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke. Volume II: 1784–1797 (Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 585.
^Ebenstein, Alan O. (2003). Hayek's Journey : the mind of Friedrich Hayek (First Palgrave Macmillan ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1403960382.
^Caldwell, Bruce (2004). Hayek's Challenge : an intellectual biography of F.A. Hayek. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-09193-7.
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^Gamble, Andrew (1996). Hayek: The Iron Cage of Liberty. Routledge. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-367-00974-8.
^Carter, Stephen G. (2006) Historian of the spirit: an introduction to the life and ideas of Christopher H. Dawson, 1889-1970, Durham theses, Durham University. Page 10
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^Skidelsky, William (20 February 2011). "Niall Ferguson: 'Westerners don't understand how vulnerable freedom is'". The Guardian.
^Clark, Peel and the Conservatives: A Study in Party Politics 1832–1841, 196–97, 199; Read, Peel and the Victorians, 66–67.
^Hurd, Douglas and Edward Young. "Disraeli discussed by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young", The Daily Telegraph, 27 June 2013
^Andrew Roberts (2018). Churchill: Walking with Destiny. Penguin. p. 127. ISBN 9781101981016.
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^Parker, George; Warrell, Helen (25 July 2014). "Theresa May: Britain's Angela Merkel?". Financial Times. London. Archived from the original on 3 July 2016.
^Hayton, Richard (July 2021). "Conservative Party Statecraft and the Johnson Government". The Political Quarterly. 92 (3): 412–419. doi:10.1111/1467-923X.13006. S2CID 236571324.
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^Andrew Neil, Full Disclosure (London: Pan, 1997), p. 32.
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^Rosenthal, John. "London of John Constable". Encyclopedia Britannica. An economic depression after the Napoleonic Wars had led to agrarian riots, and yet Constable, a loyal Tory, chose to portray an abstracted, well-ordered English society that was untouched by the industrial and social changes surrounding him.
^Graham-Dixon, Andrew (November 13, 2005). "Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape". The Telegraph. Palmer was as conservative in his political and religious beliefs as he was revolutionary in his artistic methods.
^Jones, Jonathan (6 November 2013). "The revolution will not be aestheticised the top rightwing". The Guardian.
^Cumming, Laura (30 June 2013). "Lowry and the Painting of Modern Life – review". The Guardian. According to The Guardian, L. S. Lowry loathed sentiment, was a lifelong conservative and made frankly caustic remarks about the crowds he painted.
^Hudson, Mark (24 June 2013). "LS Lowry: there's more to him than matchstick men". The Telegraph. A tall, ungainly man in a raincoat who tramped the Salford streets, a rent-collector by day and an artist by night, a lifelong Tory voter and teetotaller, who lived with his mother and never formed relationships with women, Lowry is seen as a social and cultural curiosity: a naive outsider, whose relentlessly repetitive work hints at an intellectual and emotional constriction, an Asperger's-like precocity. He's universally known in this country, but means pretty much nothing anywhere else.
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