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. September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... December 13 is the 347th day of the year (348th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ... Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough on Merseyside in north west England, on the north side of the Mersey estuary. ... A baronet (traditional abbreviation Bart, modern abbreviation Bt) is the holder of a species of knighthood known as a baronetcy. ...

He is known for his interest in monarchy, royalism and Jacobitism, and particularly for his 1926 essay in alternative history, If: A Jacobite Fantasy. A monarchy, (from the Greek monos, one, and archein, to rule) is a form of government that has a monarch as Head of State. ... The noun or adjective, Royalist, can have several shades of meaning. ... This article is not about the Jacobite Orthodox Church, nor is it about Jacobinism or the earlier Jacobean period. ... Alternative history or alternate history can be: A history told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ...

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. The term far-right refers to the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ... Map of Germany showing Leipzig   Leipzig? [ˈlaiptsɪç] (Polish; Sorbian/Lusatian: Lipsk) is the largest city in the federal state (Bundesland) of Saxony in Germany. ... The January Club was a discussion group founded in 1934 by Oswald Mosley to attract Establishment support for movement the British Union of Fascists. ... Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 - December 3, 1980) was a British politician principally known as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ...

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. Conservatism or political conservatism is any of several historically related political philosophies or political ideologies. ... Francisco Franco Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco y Bahamonde Salgado Pardo de Andrade (December 4, 1892 – November 20, 1975), abbreviated Francisco Franco Bahamonde and sometimes known as Generalísimo Francisco Franco, was dictator of Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. ... Spanish Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...

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. The Right Honourable Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869–9 November 1940) was a British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937–1940. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ... Andrew Roberts is a conservative UK historian. ... Appeasement is a strategic manoeuver, based on either pragmatism, fear of war, or moral conviction, that leads to acceptance of imposed conditions in lieu of armed resistance. ...

Works

• The History of Government (1929)
• The Jacobite Movement (1932)
• Monarchy (1933)
• The Stuart Pretenders-A History of The Jacobite Movement, 1688-1807 (1933)
• Mussolini (Leipzig, 1933) in German The History of Spain (1934) with Louis Bertrand
• Spain (1934)
• The Letters Speeches and Proclamations of King Charles 1 (1935)
• The Four Georges A Revaluation of the Period From 1714-1830 (1935)
• William Pitt (1935)
• Walter Long and his times (1936)
• Lords of the Inland Sea: A Study of the Mediterranean Powers (1937)
• Bolingbroke (1937)
• The Stuarts (1937)
• The Chamberlain tradition (Right Book Club 1938)
• The Life and Letters of The Right Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain K.G., P.C., M.P: 2 volumes (1939/1940)
• Joseph Chamberlain (1940)
• Louis XIV (1940)
• Twenty years' armistice-and after : British foreign policy since 1918 (Right Book Club 1940)
• When Britain Saved Europe (1941)
• George Canning (1946)
• Diplomatic history, 1713-1933 (1947)
• The Private Diaries (March 1940 to January 1941) of Paul Baudouin (1948) translator
• Earlier diplomatic history, 1492-1713 (1949)
• The Jacobite Movement. The First Phase 1688-1716. London: Eyre, 1948
• The Jacobite Movement. The Last Phase, 1716-1807.(1950)
• Chapters of Life (1950)
• The Duke of Berwick and His Son; Some Unpublished Letters and Papers (1951)
• Monarchy in the Twentieth Century (1952)
• The Marshal Duke of Berwick ; The Picture of an Age (1953)
• Lord Liverpool and his Times (1954)
• The Carlton Club (1955)
• Wellington (1956)
• The powers behind the Prime Ministers (1958)
• The Jacobite Movement (1958) revision
• Daniel O'Conor Sligo: His Family and His Times (1958)
• TheSpanish Royal House (1958)
• The Victorians (1960)
• The Modern British Monarchy (1961)
• King Alfonso XIII and His Age (1963)
• Philip II of Spain (1963)
• Scenes of Edwardian Life (1965)
• Don John of Austria (1967)
• Great Beginnings In The Age Of Queen Victoria (1967)
• The Letters of King Charles I (1968)
• The Drift to World War, 1900-1914 (1968)
• King Charles III of Spain: An Enlightened Despot (1971)
• A Historian Looks at His World (1972)
• The Great Tyrconnel: A Chapter in Anglo-Irish Relations (1972)
• King Charles, Prince Rupert, and the Civil War: from original letters (1974)