Conservatism and Unionism in the UK, 1968-1997

该项目是PI的Paul Corthorn和CI的Malcolm Petrie之间的新合作，PI在二十世纪的英国保守主义和阿尔斯特联合主义方面拥有既定的研究记录，CI是二十世纪苏格兰政治和第二次世界大战后苏格兰联合主义发展的专家。在博士后研究助理（PDRA）的支持下，我们将进行全面的档案研究，以研究保守主义和工会主义之间的不断发展的关系在整个英国在二十世纪的最后三十年。这是一个关键时刻，在世纪末和20世纪初爱尔兰问题的政治背景下建立起来的密切关系瓦解了--对今天的联盟生存产生了深远的影响，这是政治学和更广泛的公共辩论的主题。旨在为牛津大学出版社制作一本贸易书籍，以达到广泛的学术和大众受众，项目团队（PI，CI和PDRA）将努力解决有关欧盟应该采取的宪法形式的问题，特别是关于权力下放的争论，以及它的基础，有时被称为英国化。我们将利用丰富的档案库，包括大量迄今未使用的来源。我们将集中讨论政治思想，但将其牢牢地置于政党政治的背景下，探讨欧洲共同体/欧盟成员国资格之争的影响和新自由主义的发展。我们特别关注分析冷战结束后经常被忽视的影响--尤其是因为保守主义和工会主义在世纪中期的关系在很大程度上是基于共同的反社会主义观点。我们有一个明确的战略，通过重要的项目合作伙伴关系和现有的关系，使我们的工作产生公众影响。这包括：一个关于欧盟未来的BBC现场广播节目，将成为一个播客;报纸文章;一个记录的公开演讲;一个历史与政策活动，以“证人研讨会”为特色，并就过去五十年来支持欧盟的不断变化的论点编写一份政策文件;和一个在线资源，为GCSE历史教师和学生对阿尔斯特工会在英国的角度来看。一个国际咨询委员会，由各个职业阶段的历史学家和政治学家组成的一个专家小组将监督该项目，并参加在苏格兰、威尔士和北方爱尔兰的主要档案馆所在地举行的两个讲习班和一个会议。因此，委员会的专业知识和不同的观点将在重要阶段的讨论中发挥作用，有助于形成研究和产出。在PDRA的指导下，董事会的参与还将导致一个主要期刊的特刊，如当代英国历史，将重点放在20世纪90年代。

This project is a new collaboration between Paul Corthorn, the PI, who has an established research record in twentieth-century British Conservatism and Ulster Unionism, and Malcolm Petrie, the CI, an expert in twentieth-century Scottish politics and the development of Scottish Unionism after the Second World War. With the support of a Postdoctoral Research Assistant (PDRA), we will undertake comprehensive archival research in order to examine the evolving relationship between Conservatism and Unionism across the UK in the last three decades of the twentieth century. This was a critical juncture when a previously close relationship, forged amid the politics of the Irish Question in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, unravelled - with far-reaching implications for the survival of the Union today, which are the subject of political science and wider public debate. Aiming to produce a trade book for Oxford University Press so as to reach a wide academic and popular audience, the project team (the PI, CI and PDRA) will grapple with questions about the constitutional form that the Union should take, especially arguments over devolution, and the underpinnings of it, sometimes dubbed Britishness. We will draw on a rich archival base, including a significant number of hitherto un-used sources. Concentrating on political ideas, but placing them firmly in the context of party politics, we will investigate the impact of disputes over membership of the European Community/European Union and the advance of neoliberalism. We are particularly concerned to analyse the often overlooked effect of the end of the Cold War - not least because the relationship between Conservatism and Unionism in the mid-twentieth century was based, to a considerable extent, on a shared anti-socialist perspective.We have a clear strategy in place, with important project partnerships and building on existing relationships, to enable the public impact of our work. This includes: a live BBC radio show on the future of the Union that will become a podcast; newspaper articles; a recorded public talk; a History & Policy event, featuring a 'Witness Seminar' and producing a policy paper on the changing arguments in favour of the Union over the last fifty years; and an on-line resource for GCSE History teachers and pupils on Ulster Unionism in UK perspective.An International Advisory Board, comprising historians and political scientists at all career stages, will oversee the project and participate in two workshops and a conference, held at the sites of key archives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The board's expertise, and varying perspectives, will therefore feed into discussions at important stages, helping to shape the research and outputs. Under the direction of the PDRA, the board's participation will also lead to a special issue of a major journal such as Contemporary British History that will focus on the 1990s.