Professor John Ramsden, who died earlier this year, was as the Daily Telegraph obituary put it, "one of the key historians of the Conservative Party". An achievement in itself, he also displayed considerably wider interests, for example, in his history of modern Anglo-German relations. In the summer of 2007, Mark Coalter, himself a conservative historian and frequent contributor to the Conservative History Journal, interviewed Professor Ramsden for the Journal. As is so often the case with historians, the interview turned into...
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