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THE TORY PARTY IN 1760-1832: PROBLEMS OF IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL IDENTITY IN THE MODERN BRITISH HISTORIOGRAPHY

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Basing on the analysis of historiography, the thesis is disputed that the Tory party gained organizational unity only after a series of splits in 1827-1830 caused by granting political rights to dissenters and the Catholics’ emancipation. The author emphasizes that this was preceded by a long period of consolidation of the Tories (1760-1832), which was accompanied by the birth of their ideology and political identity. The paper shows that in the modern British historiography, more and more supporters have a view, according to which the split of 1832 was caused, first of all, by constitutional changes, and only then by the Tory party problems themselves.

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Author information

Viktor Viktorovich Klochkov

Southern Federal University; State Technical University

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Publication history

  • Received: June 29, 2018.
  • Published: November 30, 2018.

Keywords

  • Великобритания «долгого XVIII века»
  • конституционное и политическое устройство
  • партия тори
  • историография британской партийно-политической системы
  • «конституционная революция»
  • Great Britain of the “long XVIII century”
  • constitutional and political order
  • the Tory party
  • historiography of the British party-political system
  • “constitutional revolution”

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