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Speakers and the Speakership: Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century
Roger Hargreaves
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Description for Speakers and the Speakership: Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century
Paperback. This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington. Editor(s): Seaward, Paul. Series: Parliamentary History Book Series. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 3H; 3J; JPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 7. Weight in Grams: 236.
This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington.
This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington.
- First in-depth study since the mid-1960s of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain
- Includes contribution by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, describing her own tenure of the Speakership
- Covers practice at Westminster and at Dublin and Edinburgh, and a comparison of Speakers at Westminster and ... Read more
- Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
Parliamentary History Book Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444332896
SKU
V9781444332896
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Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Roger Hargreaves
Paul Seaward has held the position of Director of the History of Parliament Trust since 2001. Previously, he was a Clerk in the House of Commons. He has written on politics, history and political thought in the late seventeenth century and on Parliament in the twentieth century. His publications include The Cavalier Parliament and the Reconstruction of the Old Regime, ... Read more
Reviews for Speakers and the Speakership: Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century
“Both of these books contribute much to our under-standing of the history and current practice of the Speakership, and to the way in which well-documented parliamentary questions in the UK as well as across Europe can provide a ready source of scholarly investigation..” (Political Studies Review, 7 August 2013)