Recommended Reading from the Traditional Britain Group
by The Editor
The Traditional Britain Group recommends these books for readers interested in the history of right-wing and traditionalist thought.
Recommended reading. (All are still obtainable, often as reprints).
“A History of the Tory Party 1640-1714” by Keith Feiling, Oxford, 1924.
“A Political Philosophy – Arguments for Conservatism” by Professor Roger Scruton,
London, 2006.
“Advocating for England” by Martin Ashcroft, Wigan, UK, 2015.
“After Progress” – Finding the Old Way Forward by Professor Anthony O’Hear, 1999
“Against Socialist Illusion” A Radical Argument, by David Selbourne, London, 1984.
“Animal Farm” by George Orwell (reprints)
“Anti-Racism – An Assault on Education and Value” edited by Frank Palmer, 1986.
“Aspects of Aristocracy” by David Cannadine, Yale & London, 1994.
“Beauty” by Professor Roger Scruton, Oxford, 2009. (Also a TV documentary).
“Broken Britain – Liberal Democracy in Crisis” by G. Gordon Betts, UK June 2013.
“Chamberlain and the Lost Peace” by Professor John Charmley, London, 1989.
“Can We Trust the BBC?” by Robin Aitkin, London, 2007.
“Churchill, Hitler and the Unnecessary War” by Patrick J. Buchanan, NY, 2008.
"Churchill – The End of Glory” by Professor John Charmley, London, 1993.
“Conservative Politics in Western Europe” edited by Z. Layton-Henry, London, 1982.
“Daybreak” – Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality by Friedrich Nietzsche.Reprints
“Defence of Aristocracy: A Text Book for Tories” by Anthony M. Ludovici. Reprints.
“Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley, Imprint, UK, 2003.
“Democracy – The God That Failed” by Professor Hans-Hermann Hoppe, 2001.
“Divine Right and Democracy”, edited by Professor David Wootton, London, 1986.
“Education and Indoctrination” by Professor Roger Scruton, Angela Ellis-Jones and
Dennis O’Keeffe, Harrow, Middx., 1985.
“England and the Need for Nations” by Professor Roger Scruton, Civitas, 2004/6.
“England – An Elegy” by Professor Roger Scruton, London, 2000.
“Euthanasia for Death Duties” by Dr. Barry Bracewell-Milnes, IEA, London, 2002.
“Fighting for the Essence” Western Ethnosuicide or European Renaissance? by Pierre Krebs, Arktos, 2012.
“Fools, Frauds and Firebrands – Thinkers of the New Left” by Professor Roger
Scruton, London, 2015.
“Foundations of the Nineteenth Century” by H. S. Chamberlain, 1914 (reprints).
“Immigration and Enoch Powell” by Tom Stacey, London, 1970.
“Enoch Powell” by Robert Shepherd, London, 1996.
“From Dawn to Decadence” – 500 years of Western Culture from 1500, by Professor
Jacques Barzun, New York, 2000.
“Heredity and Humanity” by Dr. Roger Pearson, Washington DC, 1996.
“How To Be A Conservative” by Professor Roger Scruton, London, 2014.
“Immigration: Action Overdue” by Gerard Batten, MEP, UKIP, March 2010 (50 pps).
“In Defence of Aristocracy” by Peregrine Worsthorne, London, 2004.
“In Praise of Prejudice” by Theodore Dalrymple, 2007.
“Legality and Legitimacy” by Carl Schmitt, 2004.
“Liberalism” – as an ideology, by D.J.Manning, London, 1976.
“Like The Roman – The Life of Enoch Powell” by Simon Heffer, London, 1998.
“Londonistan” by Melanie Phillips, London, 2006.
“Lost Worlds” – What have we lost & where did it go? by Michael Bywater, 2004.
“Meditations on the Peaks” by Julius Evola, USA 1998.
“Men Among The Ruins” by Julius Evola, USA, 2002.
“Men and God” by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, 1921/1933.
“Metaphysics of War” – battle, victory and death in the World of Tradition by Julius
Evola, Arktos, 2007/8/11.
“My Life” by Sir Oswald Mosley, London, 1968.
“Nationalism”, Royal Institute of International Affairs, London, 1939.
“News from Somewhere” (the country) by Professor Roger Scruton, London, 2004.
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell (reprints).
“Nor Shall My Sword” – The Reinvention of England by Simon Heffer, UK 1999.
“Not Out of Africa” – teaching Myth as History, by Mary Lefkowitz, N.Y., 1996.
“Not With A Bang, But a Whimper” – the Politics & Culture of Decline, by Theodore
Dalrymple, 2009.
“On England” by the Rt.Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., London, 1926.
“Our Culture – What’s Left of It” by Theodore Dalrymple, 2005.
“Overcrowded Britain” by Ashley Mote, UK, 2003.
“Patriotisms: Britain 1900-1939” by J.H.Grainger, London, 1986.
“Political Theology” – The Concept of Sovereignty by Carl Schmitt, Chicago, 2005.
“Primetime Propaganda” –How The Left took over your TV, by Ben Shapiro, 2011.
“Race, Evolution, and Behaviour, by Professor J. Philippe Rushton, for which he was nominated to receive a Nobel Prize.
“Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe” by Dr. Roger Pearson. Washington DC.
“Reflections of a Statesman” – Writings & Speeches of Enoch Powell, London, 1991.
“Reflections on the Revolution in Europe” – Immigration, Islam, and The West, by
Christopher Caldwell, New York, 2009.
“Revolt Against The Modern World” by Julius Evola, USA, 1995.
“Revolution and Counter-Revolution” by Plinio Correa de Oliveria, USA 1993.
“Ride The Tiger” a Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul, by Julius Evola,
U.S.A., 2003.
“Roger Scruton, The Philosopher on Dover Beach” by Mark Dooley, London, 2009.
“Service of Our Lives” by the Rt.Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., London, 1937.
“Small Corroding Words” – The slighting of Great Britain by the European Human
Rights Commission, by Jon Gower Davies, Civitas, London, 2011.
“The Abolition of Britain” by Peter Hitchens, London, 2008.
“The Abolition of Liberty” – The Decline of Order and Justice in England by Peter
Hitchins, London, 2003.
“The Avoidable War” (2 vols) by J. Kenneth Brody, London, 1999.
“The Bell Curve” by Richard Herrnstein & Charles Murray, New York, 1994/6.
“The Broken Compass” – How British Politics lost its way, by Peter Hitchins, 2009.
“The Camp of the Saints” – immigration and impotence, by Jean Raspail (reprints).
“The Church Impotent” – The Feminization of Christianity by Leon J. Podles, 1999.
“The Concept of the Political” by Carl Schmitt, Chicago, 1996 & 2007.
“The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy” by Carl Schmitt, 1988 reprint.
“The Crisis of the Modern World” by René Guénon, London, 1942.
“The Crown, The Sages and Supreme Morality” by Robert E. Ball, London, 1983.
“The Diehards” – Aristocratic Society & Politics in late Victorian and Edwardian
England, by Gregory D. Phillips, Harvard University Press, 1979.
“The End of the Ancient World” by Professor Ferdinand Lot, London, 1931.
The Essential Rene Guenon: Metaphysics, Tradition, and the Crisis of Modernity, by John Herlihy (2009)
“The Five-Minute Philosopher” by Gerald Benedict, London, 2011.
“The Great Abdication” – Britain’s decline, by Alexander Deane, London, 2005.
“The Great Betrayal” (Rhodesia) by Ian Douglas Smith, London, 1997.
“The Great Immigration Scandal” by Steve Moxon, Exeter, U.K., 2004.
“The Greed Merchants” – How the Investment Banks Played the Free Market Game,
by Philip Augar, London, 2005. (THE prophetic book. THE crash was 2007/8.)
“The Ideology of the British Right 1918-1939” by G.C.Webber, U.K, 1986.
“The Impact of Hitler” – British Politics and British Policy 1933-1940, by Professor
Maurice Cowling,, Cambridge, 1975.
“The Macpherson Report: ‘Anti-racist’ Hysteria and the Sovietization of the United
Kingdom”, by Dr. Frank Ellis, London, 2001.
“The Meaning of Culture” by John Cowper Powys, London, 1936.
“The Party’s Over” – Blueprint for a very English revolution by Keith Sutherland,
Imprint, U.K., 2004.
“The Political Police in Britain” by Tony Bunyan, London, 1977/8, 1983.
“The Poverty of Multiculturalism” by Richard West, Civitas, London, 2005/8/10.
“The Price of Revolution” by Professor D.W.Brogan, London, 1951/2.
“The Rape of the Constitution” edited by Keith Sutherland, Imprint UK, 2000.
“The Real Right Returns” by Daniel Friberg, Arktos, 2015.
“The Retreat of Reason” – Political Correctness and the corruption of public debate in modern Britain, by Anthony Browne, Civitas, London, 2006.
“The Right in France” from the Revolution to Le Pen, by Nicholas Atkin & Frank
Tallett, New York, 2003.
“The Road to Serfdom” by Professor F. A. Hayek (many reprints).
“The Roger Scruton Reader” edited by Mark Dooley, London, 2009.
“The Strange Rise of Semi-Literate England” – The Dissolution of the Libraries, by
W.J.West, London, 1991.
“The Territorial Imperative” – the origins of property & nations, by Robert Ardrey,
London, 1967.
“The Tories”- Conservatives and The Nation State 1922-1997 by Alan Clark, 1998.
“The Truth Twisters” – Disinformation, by Richard Deacon, London, 1986/7.
“The Uses of Pessimism” by Professor Roger Scruton, Oxford, 2010.
“The Way We Live Now” by Richard Hoggart, 1995/6.
“Thinkers of the New Left” by Professor Roger Scruton, UK, 1985.
“This Torch of Freedom” by the Rt.Hon. Stanley Baldwin, M.P., 1935.
“Time to Emigrate?” by George Walden (former MP & Minister), London, 2006.
“Tortured for Christ” by Richard Wurmbrand, 1967. 1969 & 1987.
“Universities – The Recovery of an Idea” by Gordon Graham, UK, 2002.
“War Crime or Just War?” – The Case Against Blair, by Nicholas Wood, UK 2005.
“Watermelons” – an attack on deranged environmentalists by James Delingpole,
London, 2012.
“What is a Conservative?” by Professor Roger Scruton, London, 1980 (reprints),
“White Identity” – Racial Consciousness in the 21st century by Jared Taylor, 2011.
“Who Goes Home?” - Immigration & Repatriation, by George Kennedy Young, C.B.,
C.M.G., Monday Club, London, May 1969.
“Why We Fight” – a Manifesto of the European Resistance, by Guillaume Faye, Arktos, 2011.
“Without Roots” by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI), New York, 2006.
Neo-Tories: The Revolt of British Conservatives against Democracy and Political Modernity (1929-1939) by Dietz, Bernhard (Abe; paper/ebook)
Richard Jefferies, The Story Of My Heart (autobiography) Archive, Abe
Henry Williamson, Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (A Novel In Fifteen Volumes - HWS)
Sir Henry Newbolt (poetry)
A.E. Housman (poetry)
Edward Thomas (poetry)
Books for Children
E. Nesbit, The House Of Arden, (Librivox; Gutenberg; Abe)
The books shown here cover a wide variety of subjects. Some are old but remain relevant to the state of things today.
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