This dissertation explores Conservative intellectual discourse of the 1930s, and the elite media through which it was disseminated. Elite media, principally the periodical press and scholarly books, continued to flourish in Conservative parliamentary circles at this time. Despite the rise of mass media and Conservative attempts to reach out to a wider public through radio, it was through elite media that Conservatives exchanged political ideas. By exploring this sphere of debate the dissertation increases our knowledge of Conservative attitudes to democracy, the constitution, Labour politics, state intervention, Liberalism, and the party’s own electoral base. Conservative intellectual debate mostly demanded loyalty to Baldwin and the parliamentary system of government. As such it provided a major cultural, intellectual, and political bulwark to democracy. Most literary Conservatives looked for new ways to revive established Conservative values and traditions. Some rejected the politics of laissez-faire, which had dominated the nineteenth century, blaming Liberals for Britain’s current economic and political difficulties. Others embraced the Liberal inheritance, including democracy, because they wanted to absorb Liberals and Liberal traditions into a broad Conservative coalition capable of restricting Labour’s electoral appeal. Some were highly selective, choosing to draw on different aspects of pre-Victorian, Victorian, and Edwardian Conservative and Liberal political traditions. Conservative MPs and intellectuals, while sharing many ideas and values, argued vehemently over the balance of individualism and collectivism, whether the state should intervene further in areas of economic and social policy, and whether the party should simply embrace the new democratic age, attempt to mitigate its potential effects, or even turn the clock back. Baldwin’s genius was that he was able to select ideas and ‘languages’ from different Conservative cultures without isolating those MPs and intellectuals whose ideas were either neglected or ignored.