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INTRODUCTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2012

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Conservative foreign policy

The documents

The Derby governments of 1852, 1858–1859, and 1866–1868

The second Disraeli government

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 41: DOCUMENTS ON CONSERVATIVE FOREIGN POLICY, 1852–1878 , July 2012 , pp. 1 - 31
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References

1 Hawkins, Angus, The Forgotten Prime Minister: the 14th Earl of Derby, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007–2008)Google Scholar.

2 See, e.g., Charmley, John, Splendid Isolation? Britain and the balance of power, 1874–1914 (London, 1999)Google Scholar; Brown, David, Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy, 1846–55 (Manchester, 2002)Google Scholar; Parry, Jonathan, The Politics of Patriotism: English Liberalism, national identity and Europe, 1830–1886 (Cambridge, 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Hicks, Geoffrey, Peace, War and Party Politics: the Conservatives and Europe, 1846–59 (Manchester, 2007)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Brown, David, Palmerston: a biography (New Haven and London, 2010)Google Scholar; Hicks, Geoffrey (ed.), Conservatism and British Foreign Policy, 1820–1920: the Derbys and their world (Farnham, 2011)Google Scholar.

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9 Eight volumes of the Benjamin Disraeli Letters (hereafter BDL) have so far been published (Toronto, 1982–2009), with a number of editors, principally M.G. Wiebe, John Matthews, J.B. Conacher, and Mary S. Millar; the ninth volume, anticipated in 2012, will go up to 1867 and constitute the halfway point of the projected publication; Vincent, J.R. (ed.), Disraeli, Derby and the Conservative Party: Journals and Memoirs of Edward Henry, Lord Stanley, 1849–1869 (Hassocks, Sussex, 1978)Google Scholar (hereafter DDCP); A Selection from the Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) between September 1869 and March 1878 (London, 1994) (hereafter DD); The Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) between 1878 and 1893 (Oxford, 2003).

10 Parry, Politics of Patriotism, p. 238.

11 Letter 241.

12 For a detailed exploration of the share purchase and Derby's role in it, see, e.g., Hicks, Geoffrey, ‘Disraeli, Derby and the Suez Canal, 1875: some myths reassessed’, History, 97 (2012), pp. 182–203CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

13 Sanderson, T.H. and Roscoe, E.S., Speeches and Addresses of Edward Henry, XVIth Earl of Derby, I (London, 1894), p. 296Google Scholar.

14 Edward, Said, Orientalism (London, 1978)Google Scholar.

15 Disraeli to Queen Victoria, M&B, VI, p. 194. The story varied slightly depending on the audience: see, for example, DD, 21 October 1877, p. 446.

16 DD, 30 June 1877, p. 413.

17 Letter 448.

18 M&B, VI, p. 148.

19 DD, 31 July 1877, p. 426.

20 Letter 449.

21 DD, 18 December 1877, pp. 465–466.

22 Letter 497.

23 Letter 440.

24 B.G. Grosvenor, ‘Lord Derby and the Eastern Crisis’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009), ch. 8.

25 Letter 338.

26 J. Davey, ‘The invisible politician: the political career of Lady Mary Derby, latterly the Countess of Derby (1824–1900)’ (unpublished PhD thesis, University of East Anglia, 2012).

27 Letter 496.

28 See, e.g., Grosvenor, ‘Britain's “most isolationist Foreign Secretary”’, pp. 159–160.

29 DD, 9 February 1878, pp. 504–505.

30 See, e.g., letter 482.

31 For a detailed exploration of the ‘tradition’ of appeasement, see Hicks, Geoffrey, ‘“Appeasement” or consistent Conservatism? British foreign policy, party politics and the guarantees of 1867 and 1939’, Historical Research, 84 (2011), pp. 513–534CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

32 Trinity College, Cambridge, R.A. Butler MSS, Butler to Ian Black, 21 April 1938, RAB G/9/13.