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Competing Disraeli-isms: Tory Democracy and One-Nation Conservatism

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
This chapter explores Benjamin Disraeli’s influence on two strands of Conservative Party ideology: Tory democracy and one-nation conservatism. Both rejected laissez-faire economics and promoted social reform, but one-nation conservatives favoured a more ...
David Jeffery
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Disraeli and Peacock

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
When Benjamin Disraeli met Thomas Love Peacock in 1848, he greeted him—to Peacock’s apparent surprise—as his ‘master’. Why should Disraeli have considered the prose satirist who was Shelley’s contemporary to be the leading influence on his early literary
Freya Johnston
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Successes and Failures of Benjamin Disraeli’s Rhetoric and Heresthetics: Corn Laws, Franchise, and Empire

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
It is not news that Benjamin Disraeli was a reckless and shape-shifting politician. This chapter claims that he was one of those rare shape-shifters who practised what has been called ‘heresthetics’, namely the art and science of turning a losing ...
Iain McLean
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Semiconductor Materials for Future Display Devices

Active and Passive Electronic Components, Volume 3, Issue 2, Page 67-75, 1976., 1976
The large majority of solid state lamps currently available take advantage of the phenomenon of electroluminescent recombination at forward biased p–n junctions (homojunctions) in III–V compound semiconductors or related derivatives (GaP, GaAsP, etc.). The range of colours, sizes and luminous efficiencies likely to become available are subject, however,
T. L. Tansley, S. J. T. Owen
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The Disraeli Roads of Anfield, Urban Renewal and Sporting Culture

Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
At the tail end of the Victorian era, professional football was an emerging cultural development within British society. Expanding industrial cities such as Liverpool subsequently saw the emergence of large footballing venues typified by Anfield football
Ben Williams
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Non, non, non ! Le Combat tory d’Enoch Powell contre les réformes de la Chambre des Lords en 1958 et 1969

Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019
This paper analyses why Enoch Powell opposed the 1958 and 1968-69 reforms of the House of Lords. He started his political career working at the Conservative Research Department that was influenced by the Disraelian legacy, and thus developed a Tory ...
Stéphane Porion
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Disraeli, Gladstone, and the Royal Titles Bill, 1876: Part 1

Parliamentary History, Volume 45, Issue 2, Page 240-265, June 2026.
Abstract The Royal Titles Bill (1876) proved to be contentious because it raised fraught issues of royal prerogative, constitutional legality, political perspective, parliamentary strategy, journalistic practice, and public opinion. Disraeli insisted that Queen Victoria could choose the supplementary title, empress of India, while Gladstone and his ...
Robert O'Kell
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Winston Churchill and South Africa: An Enduring, yet Debatable Connection, 1899–1955

History, Volume 111, Issue 395, Page 168-182, March 2026.
Abstract The article traces Churchill's engagement with South Africa, from his time as a newspaper correspondent during the Anglo‐Boer War to his services in both Liberal and Conservative cabinets as well as, ultimately, his premiership. The discussion highlights three phases in this relationship.
LUVUYO WOTSHELA
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Imperial Mythology in the Political Thought of Benjamin Disraeli [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

Stosunki Międzynarodowe
Background The article examines the construction of imperial mythology, its structure and its significance for political activity within Benjamin Disraeli’s political thought.
Tomasz Madras
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Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal: The Case of Mgr. Thomas John Capel

Journal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 505-519, December 2025.
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was ...
Timothy Verhoeven
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