Professor KOSEKI, Takashi
Professor KOSEKI, Takashi
- Academic Degree
- Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
- Expertise
- UK and Irish modern and contemporary history
- Research Theme
- The Irish Problem during the First World War
UK and Irish modern and contemporary history
For the United Kingdom, 1886 to 1905 was a period of rule by conservative parties At the grassroots level, this was supported by the Primrose League, formed in 1883. This “age of conservative rule” began immediately after important electoral reforms and great advances in the “democratization of politics,” and cannot be understood without considering the popular conservativism organized and mobilized by the Primrose League. How did the Primrose League, which was deeply embedded in the daily lives of the newly enfranchised workers and common folk, as well as the women who remained disenfranchised, cultivate a popular conservativism? How did the question of Irish Home Rule, the greatest political issue of the day affect the growth of popular conservativism? With a focus on the associational life developed in the Primrose League, my research seeks to elucidate the generative mechanisms of the popular conservativism that remains a key political current to this day.