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Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up (2013)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., & Mates, L. (2013). Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up. History, 98(330), 202-225. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-229x.12004

It is well known the membership of British Conservative Party in the 1950s dwarfed that of other parties, but despite this there has been very little examination of the party's grassroots in this crucial period. What literature there is comes predomi... Read More about Grassroots Conservatism in Post-War Britain: A view from the bottom up.

Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain (2012)
Journal Article
Cohen, G., Mates, L., & Flinn, A. (2012). Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 43(2), 247-274. https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh_a_00381

Capture-recapture methods are of general interest because they can be applied to conventional historical sources to address otherwise intractable questions about the size and dynamics of historical populations. When employed to assess alternative exp... Read More about Capture-Recapture Methods and Party Activism in Britain.