Conservative History Journal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
The secondary blog of the Conservative History Journal is finally in existence. The aim is to post very long pieces on that with shorter links on this, the primary blog. There may well be future technological developments on the site but warnings will be posted. The first piece on the other blog is a long interview Mark Coalter, a frequent contributor to the Journal, had with Professor John...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Forty years ago there was just one authoritative survey of the history of the Conservative Party, written by Robert Blake, who was subsequently ennobled by Ted Heath. Today the whole story is clear in well-researched detail, and John Ramsden did more than anyone to bring about that change and transform the position.
Trench Fever (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Professor John Ramsden, my colleague at QMUL until his retirement last year, died a few days ago. Peter Hennessy’s obituary from the Guardian captures much of John and in no way overstates his achievements. John had first shown the remarkable academic generosity that he displayed to me throughout the time I knew him when he [...]
timrollpickering (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Earlier this week I received the shocking news that my PhD supervisor, John Ramsden, has passed away. Peter Hennessy has written a wonderful piece at The Guardian: John Ramsden obituary ad I don't feel I can improve on it. All I can add is that John was a fantastic and very supportive supervisor, providing much useful help and advice. He will be deeply missed.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
He was the leading historian of the Conservative party Professor John Ramsden, who has died of cancer aged 61, was the leading historian of the Conservative party in his generation, an accomplished film and cultural scholar and a powerful force in the rise of arts and humanities at Queen Mary, University of London, where he taught and administered for 36 years until his retirement in...
How it really was (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... Ernest Bevin, lists them as: disarmament, demilitarization, de-nazification and democratization. John Ramsden, in his study of Anglo-German relations, ‘Don’t Mention the War: The British and the Germans since 1890’ has decentralisation instead of disarmament, writing of “the four D's agreed at the July 1945 Potsdam conference: the denazification, decentralisation, demilitarisation...
