The Conservative Party Archive

The official history of the Conservative Party through papers, posters, policies, speeches and images

Useful Links and Resources

Whether you are an undergraduate, a post-graduate or just interested in politics or political history there are a number of websites which may be useful to you. The Conservative Party Archive does not endorse any of the following and the list is provided for information only.

GENERAL
Guide to Political Records	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/pppag-records.htm
Guide to Repositories Holding Political Records	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/pppag-repositories.htm
Albert Sloman Library, University of Essex	http://libwww.essex.ac.uk
Bodleian Library	www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/modpol/index.html
British Library of Political and Economic Science, London School of Economics	www.lse.ac.uk/library/
The Parliamentary Archives	www.parliament.uk/publications/archives.cfm
People's History Museum	www.phm.org.uk
National Library of Scotland	www.nls.uk
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland	www.proni.gov.uk
Welsh Political Archive	www.llgc.org.uk
CONSERVATIVE RELATED SITES
The Official Conservative Party Site	www.conservatives.com
Useful links to constituencies, MP’s, Clubs etc.	www.conservative-party.net www.conservativefoundation.co.uk
Margaret Thatcher	www.margaretthatcher.org
The Conservative History Group	www.conservativehistory.org.uk
Churchill Archives Centre	www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives
POLICY GROUPS AND THINK TANKS
The Bow Group	www.bowgroup.org
CIVITAS	www.civitas.org.uk

Additional links to the many Conservative-related sites are available at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organisations_associated_with_the_British_Conservative_Party

Conservative Party poster collection, 1886-2008:
Now available online - view