Anne McElvoy explores how the French Revolution shocked progressive MP Edmund Burke into defending British traditions and privileges - sowing the seeds of British conservatism. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how Thomas Carlyle fought the chaos and disconnection of the Industrial Revolution - by calling for strong leadership and a return to old Christian values. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces how, in the 1840s, the threat of Free Trade galvanised a placid aristocrat into action - in an unlikely alliance with the dandy novelist Benjamin Disraeli. Show more

In a Sheffield pub, Anne McElvoy learns how conservatives responded to the threat of urban mass democracy - and how a Tory tradition helped them find the answer in a pint of beer. Show more

Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, from the French Revolution to the growth of mass democracy. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how the 'permissive society' provoked a new morality-based populist conservatism, which opposed the liberal elite on issues like TV, education and inflation. Show more

Anne McElvoy visits the chapel in Grantham where Mrs Thatcher's father preached, to explore how his story encapsulates how conservatism has changed across the last two centuries. Show more

Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have spurred British conservatism to reinvent itself, from the Edwardian era to the permissive society. Show more

Anne McElvoy follows the great Victorian critic John Ruskin to Bradford. In 1864 he lambasted the town's prosperous merchants for ditching traditional values of taste and craft. Show more

Anne McElvoy goes to Tyneside to rediscover the 'conserving crowds' of the years before the First World War: mass working-class conservative protests against Home Rule for Ireland. Show more

Anne McElvoy traces how, after 1918, mass democracy split conservatism. Moderates invented 'property-owning democracy' but militants wanted a powerful king and a return to the land. Show more

Anne McElvoy explores how conservatives of left and right responded to the advent of the welfare state and the 'affluent society' after the Second World War. Show more