Robert Blake, Baron Blake

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Robert Norman William Blake, Baron Blake (December 23 1916 - September 20 2003) was an English historian, best known for his 1966 biography of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. He was created a life peer in 1971 as Baron Blake, of Braydeston in the County of Norfolk.

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Unknown Prime Minister; the life and times of Andrew Bonar Law, 1858-1923 (1955)
Disraeli (1966)
Conservative Party from Peel to Churchill (1970) (later revised and updated as Conservative Party from Peel to Thatcher, then again as Conservative Party from Peel to Major)
History of Rhodesia (1978)
The Decline of power, 1915-1964 (1985) (part of The Paladin History of England series)