PART 1 THE EMERGENCE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY: Peel and Toryism; Peel in opposition 1830-41 - Peel's conservatism, Conservative recovery; Peel in power 1841-45 - Peel as Prime Minister, social distress and disorder, finance and free trade, social reform, Ireland; Conservative opposition to Peel 1841-45. PART 2 THE BREAK-UP OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY: The Corn Laws crisis; Peel and the Peelites. PART 3 ASSESSMENT. PART 4 DOCUMENTS.
Paul Adelman was formerly Reader in History at Kingston University.