BRITISH CONSERVATISM AND THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE ... - ideals

Materials were also consulted at the British Library, the
London School of Economics, the Public Record Office, the House of
Lords Records Office, the National Register of Archives for England and
Scotland, and the Institute for Historical Research at the University
of London.
Reference sources were examined at the Victoria Library in
London, the Navy League, the League for the Exchange of Commonwealth
Teachers, and Rhodes House.
Librarians at both the Gloucester Public
Library and the Birmingham Reference Library provided generous
assistance as did the archivists and their assistants at the Dorset,
Hertfordshire, Lancashire, Gloucestershire, and Cumbria Records
Offices.
I am indebted to a number of scholars for their advice
regarding my thesis, particularly during its early stage of formation.
Arno J. Mayer originally proposed the Primrose League to me as a topic
worthy of a dissertation and provided great encouragement during the
preliminary phase of my graduate studies.
Michael Wills, a television
news reporter for I.T.V., generously provided me with material on
various aspects of the Primrose League.
Martin Pugh, Henry Pelling,
R.F. Foster, Bernard Porter, Jonathan Steinberg, Peter Clarke, Graham
Howes, and R.K. Webb also offered valuable advice.
It is my great misfortune that the untimely death of S.E. Koss,
who began the supervision of thesis, prevented him from overseeing its
completion.
I am, however, fortunate in having had the assistance of
four individuals who donated generously of their time, helping to shape
and improve the contours of the final draft of the dissertation. In
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