Robert Blake
(1916-2003) was the pre-eminent Tory historian of his day. In addition to his masterpiece, his biography of
Disraeli,
his books include
Bonar Law: The Unknown Prime Minister
,
The Conservative Party from Peel to John Major
and a volume in the Paladin History of England, (a series which he edited),
The Decline of Power, 1915-1964
. These and
Disraeli's Grand Tour
are all being reissued in Faber Finds.
Between the disintegration of the Liberal Party in 1915 and the election of Harold Wilson's Labour in 1964, Britain weathered a turbulent half-century including two world wars and many profound socio-political changes. What did not survive this tumult was Britain's sea-based Empire,...
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