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As another Primrose Day comes to a close, I thought I'd share the promo code for a lovely 30% off The Disraeli Myth: press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
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Emily Jones
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Emily Jones
@EmilyJonesVIII
Historian of politics, culture, and ideas @OfficialUoM. You can find me on BlueSky these days: https://t.co/KH0TtqVHtz
Manchester, England Katılım Eylül 2010
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The difference between the period when I wrote my book proposal (2019, Boris is PM) to the situation in which The Disraeli Myth will be published in next month is staggering. But also (as I argue) representative of loss of ability to think creatively *with* the past
Capel Lofft@CapelLofft
The hard reality for the Tories is that they are dead in large swathes of their old heartlands and the corpse isn't even twitching. In fact they don't even really exist as a political party in huge bits of even rural and southern England. They are not a national party anymore
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Not that anyone asks historians anymore, but I think my sense that the last GE was Labour's 1906 (they are the Libs in this analogy) still stands. What remains unique (& so without historical analogy) is that the Cons are being *successfully* challenged by a party to the right.
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
Off air after 8 hours. Long way to go but long story short- Reform and to a lesser extent Greens are finally making real something long promised: the dismantling of the two party system across much of England. UKIP never did it. Didn’t happen under Corbyn. In place after place we’re seeing proper Labour wipeout and little sign of Tory revival in its place. For now, at least, a new political world.
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@CapelLofft @SecretAcademic5 @TheRestHistory @dcsandbrook Precisely. Hence Thatcher and her many speechwriters made such an effort to present her as existing within existing Conservative traditions. I've written about all your points above in my new Dizzy book.
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@SecretAcademic5 @TheRestHistory @dcsandbrook My point is not that there wasn't an intellectual genealogy for Thatcher, especially in economic terms, inside the Tories - there was, although there was also a dollop of Gladstone too - but that it had never been the dominant one. She made it dominant & that was new
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Listening to the excellent @TheRestHistory on the rise of Thatcher. But I do think that @dcsandbrook is being somewhat misleading by suggesting that Thatcherism is in some uncomplicated fashion the truest heir to the Tory tradition and Heathite paternalism was the aberration
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@EmilyJonesVIII @JBritishStudies Congratulations, Emily. I look forward to reading it.
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📢 My article, 'Conservative Crossings: Constructing Anglo-American Conservatism in C20th' has been accepted by @JBritishStudies! It shows how Conservative ideas & people moved between Britain & the US, contributing to the Cold War invention of 'American conservatism'.
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@HorcherF @JBritishStudies Thanks, Ferenc - it has drawn together lots of bits of research, observations, and niggling questions from the last decade or so!
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@EmilyJonesVIII @JBritishStudies This one sounds very interesting, Emily.
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@ThomasUnser @JBritishStudies Thanks, Thomas! Shoot me an email and I will send you a copy 😊
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@EmilyJonesVIII @JBritishStudies Wow it is fantastic! Do you have a pre-print circulating around?
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@CapelLofft @CrumbMontgomery Highly recommend reading Glory Liu's Adam Smith's America, if you haven't already.
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@CrumbMontgomery Smith is often misrepresented - e.g he had something like a theory of alienation with some resemblance to Marx's later views. But nonetheless some of the problems do genuinely stem from his thought, his over-emphasis on the division of labour as the source of growth, for example
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Contention: even for liberals, the economic thought of e.g. Justi, Sir James Steuart & later Schumpeter are far more important than Adam Smith, the veneration of whom has contributed to the dysfunctions of the form of economic liberalism that has prevailed in Anglo countries
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@johnmilbank3 @CapelLofft Presumably also because alternatives became less viable/attractive (Europe, empire/commonwealth) and 'special relationship' became a tool of analysis rather than part of a Churchillian family construct
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I’m really shocked by TS here. He’s just joining most of the British right in total surrender to the American (liberal) revolution. Whereas Robert Tombs is correct, it is perfectly possibly for Britain, like France to become a global power again. And resist American liberalism.
john milbank@johnmilbank3
Trump controls the world, and Britain ought to let him have it telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/1…
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@LeeDavidEvansUK Ahh, love it. I have a quote from this at the start of my Dizzy book!
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I know it’s a cliché, but for size, look and feel the design of these books is unsurpassed.
Penguin, bring them back!
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@DrDuncanBell Thanks, Duncan! Currently on the index 🫠 Hope all's well in Cambridge.
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@EmilyJonesVIII Even so, to capture the intellectual-political arc of WWII requires us to capture ideas entwined lives - say for arguments sake, the generation born around the 1890s who came of age during WWI then rose to power from the 1930s to 1960s who were baptized in word wars from youth.
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Completely agree. I wonder if another temporal framing, say 1918-1960, might work better for an intellectual-political history of WWII. One that crosses the arc of a generation’s journey - lives and ideas - thru the mid-twentieth century decades.
Adam Tooze@adam_tooze
@ColinKreuzer @NewLeftEViews We need a serious intellectual-political history of WWII ... or shall we say the 1936-1950 period.
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"Modern political history does not come much better than this." My next book, The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition, has a publication date (and some wonderful, very kind, praise)! press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
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@wrafter_colin @OUPAcademic Thanks, Colin! I know what you mean, I hope the ebook is an improvement.
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@EmilyJonesVIII unfortunately I find the font in the paperback edition of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism rather small, tiny in fact. Is there any way of reading the work in a larger font ? Many thanks @OUPAcademic
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@VitaliJames Also Cecil's Conservatism from 1912 by far the more significant text with quite significant longevity.
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@VitaliJames If you are writing the kind of book I think you might be, I'd recommend reading T.S. Eliot's 'The Literature of Politics' which is in some of his collected essays. I discuss it at the beginning of my chapter on Conservatism here: doi.org/10.4337/978180…
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I've had the opportunity to read an inordinate amount while researching for my forthcoming book. It's not exactly holiday-friendly reading(!), but I thought I'd share a few of the key texts from my conservative philosophy / political economy reading list 🧵
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I am very grateful to have been awarded a KAKENHI grant (2.1 million ¥) for my project @jsps_sns – I plan to use this funding for my research & to facilitate a landmark international conference on "global intellectual history" – let us make it more meaningful, robust, & *global*
Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー@tomaashby
After being nominated by the @BritishAcademy_, I am delighted to have been awarded a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship hosted @UTokyo_News with @Koji_hist by the @jsps_sns. Starting this summer, I look forward to continuing my work on the global English republic & more in Japan!
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