Tory Radical

by Cecil Herbert Driver

This book gives you an insight into the complicated history of early Conservatism and how Conservatives have always formed different coalitions. In this case it was the coalition between the factory workers and the aristocrats against the mill owners – the mill owners being the Liberals. Oastler was a radical figure in the late 1700s and early 1800s and one of the driving forces behind the Factory Acts when Conservatives made common cause with even the most radical elements.