Killerton, Camborne and Westminster by Garry Tregidga

Killerton, Camborne and Westminster by Garry Tregidga

This volume edits the correspondence of Sir Francis and Lady Acland of Killerton, Devon. It brings together a unique collection of written sources for politics in the early twentieth century, ranging from the administrative worldof high politics to constituency electioneering in Cornwall and Devon. The Aclands made a prominent contribution to Liberal party politics in this period and their correspondence covers topics such as the pre-war campaign for female suffrage, the key events of the First World War and the party divisions that followed the fall of Asquith. These letters therefore offer fresh insight into the changing fortunes of Liberalism in this period. They also challenge the assumption that the South West of Britain was a political backwater, covering the remarkable rise and fall of Labour in Cornwall and the tensions generated in rural Devon by Lloyd George's land campaign in the mid-1920s. Notions of family tradition, territorial politics and constituency representation were played out against the competing influences of Devon, Cornwall and Westminster.

Garry Tregidga is Assistant Director, Institute of Cornish Studies, University of Exeter. He undertook both his Mphil and PhD degrees with the University of Exeter. He was appointed as the Assistant Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies in October 1997 and lives in his native mid-Cornwall. He has published a wide range of articles on Cornish themes.

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ISBN 13	9780901853486
ISBN 10	0901853488
Title	Killerton, Camborne and Westminster
Author	Garry Tregidga
Series	Devon And Cornwall Record Society
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Devon & Cornwall Record Society
Year published	2006-01-01
Number of pages	188
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