Compatriots Club

The Compatriots Club was an unofficial grouping of British Conservatives between 1904 and 1914. According to E. H. H. Green, the club "was made up of a membership of Conservative MPs, academics, journalists, and writers, functioned as a form of 'think tank' to generate Conservative ideas on the economy, imperial relations, defence, and other issues."[1] Members included William Cunningham, William Hewins, William Ashley, Lord Milner, Leo Amery, John Waller Hills, and Arthur Steel-Maitland.[2] The theme of the club was a hostility to laissez-faire and individualism with an affinity to collectivism.[2]

Publications
  • Compatriots' Club Lectures: First Series (1905)

References

Footnotes
  1. Green 2004, pp. 6–7.
  2. Green 2004, p. 65.

Bibliography
  • Green, E. H. H. (2004). Ideologies of Conservatism: Conservative Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Further reading
  • Green, E. H. H. (1996). The Crisis of Conservatism: The Politics, Economics and Ideology of the Conservative Party, 1880–1914. London: Routledge.


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