Gary Love

Biographic Data

ID5441690
NAMEGary Love
GIVEN NAMESGary
FAMILY NAMELove
SIGNATURELOVE G
AFFILIATIONSNorwegian University of Science and Technology
ORCID0000-0002-0933-1207
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS11
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX2

  • The British Conservative Party, the Scandinavian Conservative Parties, and Inter-Party Cooperation in Europe, 1949-78

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLEContemporary British History2023References: 10

    This article explores the links between the British and Scandinavian Conservative parties in Europe between the late-1940s and the late-1970s. Its findings show that these parties were closer to each other than has been assumed. The British and Scandinavian Conservative parties built up significant relationships with each other at the organisational level throughout the 1950s, which led to transfers of political knowledge and information mostly f…

  • Real Toryism’ or Christian democracy? The political thought of Douglas Jerrold and Charles Petrie at the New English Review, 1945–50

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLEHistorical Research2020References: 5

    This article uses the periodical press, memoirs and archival sources to examine the Conservative thought of Douglas Jerrold and Charles Petrie at the New English Review between 1945 and 1950. It seeks to argue that while there was more continuity than rupture in their political thought, they were able to make a transition from interwar authoritarianism and ‘fascism’ to postwar anti-communism and democracy. There were similarities between their po…

  • Making a ‘New Conservatism’

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLEThe English Historical Review2020Cited by: 1References: 2

    This article offers the first analytical overview of the political thinking and organisational history of the Tory Reform Committee (TRC). It is also a contribution to wider scholarly debates about the making of a ‘New Conservatism’ in the 1940s and the development of Conservative thought in the twentieth century. The TRC’s leading members drew on the party’s Disraelian one-nation tradition to free them from adopting doctrinaire positions. They w…

  • A ‘Mixture of Britannia and Boadicea’

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLETwentieth Century British History2018Cited by: 2

    Dorothy Crisp is known for being the militant Chairman of the British Housewives League (BHL) after the Second World War, but historians have failed to recognize that her views and actions were the culmination of over twenty years of right-wing journalism and political activism through which she tried to influence the Conservative Party. This article re-evaluates Crisp's Conservatism and her political career. It asks why such a powerful pro-Conse…

  • Mosley and British Politics 1918–32

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLEThe English Historical Review2017

    ‘Oswald’s Odyssey’ contextualises the long and adventurous political journey of Oswald Mosley from Coalition Conservative in 1918 to informal Asquithian Liberal in 1920, from Independent MP in 1922 to Labour MP in 1924, and from his forming of the New Party in 1931 to his leading of the British Union of Fascists from 1932. In no sense is this book a narrow biographical study of the making of Britain’s answer to Mussolini and Hitler. As the author…

  • The Periodical Press and the Intellectual Culture of Conservatism in Interwar Britain

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLEThe Historical Journal2014

    Conservatives usually play down their intellectual credentials because it provides them with an effective means of distancing themselves from the ‘doctrinaire’ or the intellectualized politics of the left. But this approach was challenged by a significant group of Conservative MPs and intellectuals during the interwar period. Conservatives wrote articles for a range of periodicals, which were still important channels of communication for the shar…

  • Portrait of a Party

    Gary LoveARTICLETwentieth Century British History2014

    Journal Article Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918–1945. By Stuart Ball. Get access Portrait of a Party: The Conservative Party in Britain 1918–1945. By Stuart Ball. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. xv + 591 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-966798-7, £85 (hardback). Gary Love Gary Love Norwegian University of Science and Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Twentieth Century British H…

  • The British Movement, Duncan Sandys, and the Politics of Constitutionalism in the 1930s

    Gary LoveARTICLEContemporary British History2009

    Duncan Sandys formed the British Movement to propagate a progressive form of constitutional Conservatism, which was meant to ‘reform’ the National government and neutralise Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF). The ambiguous nature of its propaganda was meant to appeal to would-be fascists, as well as national-minded Conservatives. Constituency responses to the British Movement reveal why it was always unlikely that Conservatives would…

  • What's the Big Idea

    Open AccessGary LoveARTICLEJournal of Contemporary History2007Cited by: 8

    This article examines the value of Roger Griffin’s concept of ‘palingenetic populist ultra-nationalism’ as a means of defining fascism as an international movement and ideology. Through an analysis of the development of both native and derivative influences on Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists (BUF), it argues that Griffin’s ‘essentialist’ definition of generic fascism allows scholars to identify distinct common linkages between all inter…