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The Tory View of Eighteenth-Century British Foreign Policy

Recent years have witnessed a significant re-evaluation of Hanoverian Britain, not least in terms of the importance and nature of the tory party and of tory attitudes. There has been no comparable re-evaluation in the field of foreign policy nor has recent work on toryism probed the nature or assessed the validity of tory views on international relations and British foreign policy. This has led to a curious position in which though the need to consider the public and political debate over foreign policy is recognized increasingly, one half of the debate is commonly ignored. The Garland series of 'outstanding' theses from the London School of Economics reveals the strengths and weaknesses of diplomatic history as a means for approaching British foreign policy in this period. • It would be all too easy to offer a sharply critical review of these works. First, in these days of library cuts the price of the series is worthy of comment, even though various inducements offered present the possibility of savings. Secondly, the issue of price is exacerbated by the misleading declaration that the works are 'not available from University Microfilms-or any other source'. It is certainly true that their ready availability in London and through inter-library loan is of scant assistance to scholars outside Britain, but the majority of these theses have been summarized in subsequent works by their authors. Gregg has written a valuable biography of Queen Anne and several articles. Dunthorne has published an important essay on the house of Orange in Anglo-Dutch politics during the first half of the eighteenth century, Smith another on Spain and the Jacobites 1715-16, and McKay an oft-cited article on the struggle for control of George I's northern policy, 1718-19.