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💭 Can politics be an art of belonging rather than a science of control? In this final instalment of the Heritage Series, Samuel Woodall explores the enduring legacy of Benjamin Disraeli and Michael Oakeshott — two thinkers who gave conservatism its humane and imaginative character.

From Disraeli’s Sybil and the vision of “One Nation” politics, to Oakeshott’s On Being Conservative and his defence of civil association, Sam traces how both figures reimagined conservatism as a philosophy rooted in continuity, affection, and the poetry of ordinary life.

🎧 In this episode:

• Disraeli’s “Two Nations” and the birth of One Nation Conservatism
• Oakeshott’s critique of rationalism and the politics of tradition
• The conversation between romantic idealism and philosophical restraint
• How their ideas illuminate the moral centre of the conservative tradition

This episode brings our Heritage Series to a close — a journey through the great lineage of conservative and traditionalist thought, from Plato and Augustine, through Burke, de Maistre, and Scruton, to the statesmanship of Disraeli and the quiet wisdom of Oakeshott.

📚 Hosted by Samuel Woodall (PhD Candidate in Intellectual History, University of Buckingham)
🎙️ Produced by Beyond the Text: The Intellectual Historian’s Podcast
🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms

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💭 Can conservatism be a culture of love rather than fear? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores the life and thought of Sir Roger Scruton (1944–2020) — philosopher, writer, musician, and one of the most articulate defenders of beauty, belonging, and the sacred in modern life.

Through works such as The Meaning of Conservatism, Beauty, and England: An Elegy, Jack examines how Scruton sought to recover the moral imagination of the West — a world held together not by ideology, but by affection, duty, and shared meaning.

🎧 In this episode:

• Scruton’s defence of tradition and “the good in the familiar”
• His vision of beauty as a moral reality
• The intertwining of home, nation, and sacred order
• How Scruton’s conservatism redefined love, loyalty, and loss in a secular age

This is the fifth instalment in our Heritage Series, tracing the evolution of conservative and traditionalist thought — from Plato and Augustine to de Maistre, Burke, and Scruton — exploring how ideas of order, imagination, and belonging continue to shape civilisation.

📚 Hosted by the History of Ideas Reading Club (University of Buckingham)
🎙️ Produced by Beyond the Text: The Intellectual Historian’s Podcast
🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms

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💭 Can feeling and imagination preserve what reason alone cannot? In this episode, Jack Thomson explores how Edmund Burke’s political vision of order, tradition, and moral imagination found unexpected echoes in the Romantic movement — especially in the poetry of Wordsworth and Byron.

Through Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France, we trace the emergence of the conservative imagination: the belief that society is a living organism shaped by inherited wisdom and sentiment. From there, Jack turns to the Romantics — to Wordsworth’s reverence for nature and continuity, and to Byron’s passionate rebellion against rationalist constraint — showing how the age’s poets both deepened and disrupted Burke’s legacy.

🎧 In this episode:

• Burke’s Reflections and the politics of moral imagination
• Wordsworth’s transformation of Burkean feeling into poetic vision
• Byron’s ambivalent embrace of liberty, passion, and tradition
• How Romanticism redefined the language of political and emotional order

This is the fourth instalment of our Heritage Series, tracing the evolution of conservative and traditionalist thought — from Plato and Augustine to de Maistre, Burke, and beyond — exploring how art, faith, and politics intertwine in the making of Western civilisation.

📚 Hosted by the History of Ideas Reading Club (University of Buckingham)
🎙️ Produced by Beyond the Text: The Intellectual Historian’s Podcast
🎧 Available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & all major platforms

#BeyondTheText #HeritageSeries #EdmundBurke #Wordsworth #Byron #Romanticism #PoliticalPhilosophy #IntellectualHistory #Conservatism #PhilosophyPodcast #HistoryOfIdeas