Archie Henderson - Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Far Right - A Guide to Archives

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[0656] Conservative Dissent Literature Collection, 1949-1987, Coll. 185

Location: Northwest Louisiana Archives, Noel Memorial Library, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, One University Place, Shreveport, LA 71115

Description: Publications and writings of an ultra-conservative nature. Publications by Americanism Forum (Shreveport, La.), W. A. Criswell, Jerry Falwell, Billy James Hargis, John Birch Society, Carl McIntire, Gerald L. K. Smith, and George C. Wallace.

Websites with information:

http://scripts.lsus.edu/libarchives/collections.php?collection=185

http://web.archive.org/web/20121111022943/http://www.nwla-archives.org/guide/coll019.htm

[0657] Conservative groups clippings 1963-1992

Location: Monterey Public Library, California History Room, 625 Pacific Street, Monterey, CA 93940

Description: On the John Birch Society and other groups.

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[0657a] Conservative National Party Papers, 1966-1968, PV 92

Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa

Description: The Conservative National Party was founded in February 1966 by the Pretoria Conservative Study Group. In the 1966 election it contested one seat unsuccessfully.

Websites with information:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=196

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527

[0657b] Conservative National Party Study Group Papers, PV 92

Location: Archive for Contemporary Affairs, Stef Coetzee Building, Room 109, Academic Avenue South, University of the Free State, 205 Nelson Mandela Drive, Park West, Bloemfontein 9300 South Africa

Description: The Conservative National Party Study Group was established in Pretoria on 5 February 1966.

Websites with information:

http://supportservices.ufs.ac.za/content.aspx?id=527

[0658] Conservative Party Archive, 1867-present

Location: Department of Special Collections and Western Manuscripts, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 3BG United Kingdom

Description: Established in 1978, the Conservative Party Archive is the official repository for the historic records of the Conservative Party's central organisation, 1867-present, including papers of Conservative Central Office from the 1930s and the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations, the Party's grass-roots membership organisation, from 1867, and certain regional records, and a library of published and printed material. The Archive contains thousands of policy papers, speeches, election leaflets, posters and photographs. Conservative Party Archive: Published Material, 1868-2005, Shelfmarks: PUB 1-229, consists of Party publications, including leaflets, pamphlets, campaign guides and journals. The section Conservative Central Office (CCO), 1892-1993, contains, within PUB 27/1, a copy of "Admission of Foreign Paupers" (1892) (reproduced online at http://conservativepartyarchive.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-admission-of-foreign-paupers.html), an anti-immigration election pamphlet published during the General Election campaign in June 1892. Published Material: Conservative Party newsletters, journals and periodicals, 1893-2002, Shelfmarks: PUB A, contains, as PUB 220/1, etc., a file of the Party's official journal of record, National Union Gleanings, published from 1893 to the present (known from 1912 as Gleanings & Memoranda), and, as PUB 214/1, a file of Tory Challenge, Jul 1947-Sep 1953, a Conservative Party newsletter published monthly by Conservative Central Office, under editor-in-chief E.D. O'Brien. Papers of the Vice Chairmen, 1948-75, Shelfmarks: CCO 60/1-4, in CCO 60/1/1, contains Republican National Committee ephemera for the U.S. presidential election of 1956 [online in part at http://conservativepartyarchive.blogspot.com/2012/10/i-like-ike-and-media-events-of-first.html]. Published Material: Conservative Party pamphlets, 1868-2008, Shelfmarks: PUB B, includes, under the section Conservative Political Centre (CPC) pamphlets, 1945-1998, as PUB 165/21, a copy of The Literature of Politics, by T.S. Eliot, with a foreword by the Rt. Hon. Sir Anthony Eden, MP (June 1955); and, under the section Miscellaneous publications, 1878-1989, as PUB 190/8, a copy of Armaments and Policy 1919-1939, The Plain Facts (1945), and, as PUB 190/13, a copy of Solon - A Right-Wing Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1-Vol. 1 No. 4 (Oct. 1969-Oct. 1970). Published Material: Think Tanks, 1943-2006 (58 shelfmarks), consists of pamphlets, journals, and newsletters published by Conservative-leaning think tanks, including files on The Monday Club, 1960-1989, a group which promoted a policy of voluntary, or assisted, repatriation for non-white immigrants; it was ultimately because of its race and immigration policies that the Conservative Party suspended its long-standing link with the Monday Club in October 2001. Monday Club Pamphlets, 1960-89, include Rhodesia: A Minority View, speeches delivered at a meeting on 3 Feb. 1966, featuring the speeches of Lord Salisbury, Julian Amery, Stephen Hastings, Patrick Wall, John Biggs-Davison, and Gerald Sparrow (1966) (PUB 117/18), and Towards a Solution, by Julian Amery (1974) (PUB 117/38). Papers of Swinton College, [Minutes and papers,] 1948-78, Shelfmarks: S 1-17, concerns the administration of Swinton College near Masham in Yorkshire, the third and final Conservative College, and includes correspondence between the Principal and the Governors, various committee meetings, course scholarships, and copies of its published journal. Contains, as S 17, Swinton Conservative College (Conservative Colleges Ltd.) - minute book, 1949-52. Conservative Party-affiliated organisations for which records are held in the Conservative Party Archive include Association of Conservative Clubs, Conservative Health, Conservative Foreign & Commonwealth Council, Conservative Group for Europe, Conservative Councillors' Association, Conservative Future, Conservative Women's Organisation, Conservative Friends of Poland, Federation of Conservative Students, Federation of Conservative Graduates, Junior Imperial League, National Society of Conservative & Unionist Agents, Society of Conservative Lawyers, Young Conservatives, and Young Britons' Organisation.

References:

Archives of the British Conservative Party 1867-1986: A Detailed Guide to the Microform Collections (Reading, 1989); Archives of the British Conservative Party 1867-1992: A Detailed Guide to the Microform Collections (Reading, Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group, 1998); Ilaria Favretto, "British Political Parties' Archives: an exemplary case," Journal of the Society of Archivists, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1997, pp. 205-213.