Whatever Happened to Tory Scotland?

David Torrance is a constitutional specialist at the House of Commons Library. He is also the author or editor of more than 20 books on Scottish politics, history and biography, including five with EUP. He completed a PhD in history and political science at the University of the West of Scotland in 2017. His most recent book was The Wild Men: The Remarkable Story of Britain’s First Labour Government (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2024).

• Notes on the Contributors; List of Tables; 1. Centenary Blues: 100 Years of Scottish Conservatism, David Torrance; 2. Patriotism, Paternalism and Pragmatism: Scottish Toryism, Union and Empire, 1912-65, Richard Finlay; 3. More than a Name: the Union and the Un-doing of Scottish Conservatism in the 20th Century, Margaret Arnott and Catriona M. M. Macdonald; 4. Smithians, Thatcherites and the Ironies of Scottish Conservative Decline, Colin Kidd; 5. 'It’s only a Northern Song': The Constant Smirr of Anti-Thatcherism and Anti-Toryism, Gerry Hassan; 6. The Wilderness Years, David Torrance; 7. Why no Tory revival in Scotland? 8. John Curtice; 9. Refashioning Welsh Conservatism – a lesson for Scotland?, David Melding AM; 10. The Press, national identity and the Scottish Tories Alex Massie; 11. 'Handbagging' the feminisation thesis? Reflections on women in the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party, Antje Bednarek; 12. Conservative Unionism: Prisoned in Marble James Mitchell and Alan Convery; Index.

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