Charles Petrie

Charles Petrie (September 28, 1895 - December 13, 1977) was a popular historian. He was Irish, but born in Liverpool, England. He became Sir Charles Alexander Petrie on inheriting a baronetcy.

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September 28 - 1895 - December 13 - 1977 - Irish - Liverpool - Baronetcy

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He is known for his interest in monarchy, royalism and Jacobitism, and particularly for his 1926 essay in alternative history, If: A Jacobite Fantasy.

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Monarchy - Royalism - Jacobitism - Alternative history

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In the 1930s he flirted with the far right. He attended the 1932 Volta Conference (of fascists and sympathisers). He wrote a 1933 book Mussolini, published in German in Leipzig. He joined in 1934 the January Club of supporters of Oswald Mosley.

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Far right - Fascist - Mussolini - Leipzig - January Club - Oswald Mosley

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He became the literary editor of the generally conservative New English Review. He was a supporter of Francisco Franco; with Douglas Francis Jerrold, the NER's editor, he formed in 1937 a group concerned to put the Nationalist case on the fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

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Conservative - New English Review - Francisco Franco - Douglas Francis Jerrold - Spanish Civil War

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In the late 1930s he was a supporter of Neville Chamberlain; subsequently he was vocal for Winston Churchill. In 1941 he tried to become a Conservative Party candidate, in Dorset South. He was passed over; according to Andrew Roberts in Eminent Churchillians, this was because Petrie was too closely identified with appeasement.

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Neville Chamberlain - Winston Churchill - Andrew Roberts - Appeasement

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