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A Short History of Parliament - England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland (Paperback)
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A Short History of Parliament - England, Great Britain, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Scotland (Paperback)
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A comprehensive history of parliament in the British Isles from the
earliest times, covering all aspects of parliament as an
institution. A Short History of Parliament is a comprehensive
institutional history, not a political history of parliament,
though politics is included where, as frequently occurred,
institutional changes resulted from particular political events. It
covers the English parliament from its origins, the pre-1707
Scottish parliament and the pre-1800 Irish parliament, the
parliament of Great Britain from 1707 and the parliament of the
United Kingdom from 1801, together with sections on the
post-devolution parliaments and assemblies set up in the 1990s and
on parliaments in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and the
Irish Republic. It considers all aspects of parliament as an
institution:membership of both the Lords and the Commons;
constituencies, elections and franchises; where the Lords and the
Commons met; how business was arranged and managed, including
Speakers, the use of committees, the development of parties,
lobbying and voting procedures; legal cases in the House of Lords;
official recording of and reporting of business and debates; the
conflict and balance of power between the two Houses; and the
position of the monarch in parliament. Each section contains a
chronology listing key events, suggestions for further reading and
"inserts" - short anecdotes or accounts of particular figures or
episodes which provide lively illustrations of parliament at work
in different periods. Clyve Jones is an honorary fellow of the
Institute of Historical Research. He has been editor of the journal
Parliamentary History since 1986. Previously he was reader in
modern historyin the University of London and collection
development librarian in the Institute of Historical Research. He
has published extensively on the history of the House of Lords and
of the peerage in the early eighteenth century.
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