The Commons and Their Speakers in English Parliaments, 1376-1523
Author: John Smith Roskell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Smith Roskell
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Smith Roskell
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780950688299
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Paul Seaward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-02-08
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1444332899
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008
Author: Clementine Oliver
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 190315331X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Sixty years before the advent of the printing press, the first political pamphlets about parliament were circulated in the city of London. These handwritten pamphlets reported on victories against the crown and point to the existence of a market of readers hungry for news of parliament.
Author: E. B. Fryde
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David Colclough
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-04-07
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521847483
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Attending to the importance of context and decorum, this major contribution to Ideas in Context recovers a tradition of free speech that has been obscured in studies of the evolution of universal rights."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: E. B. Pryde
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-02-23
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9780521563505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Handbook of British Chronology is acknowledged as the authoritative and indispensable record of all holders of major offices in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from the fifth century to the late twentieth century. The third edition (which first appeared in 1986) is now available from Cambridge University Press.
Author: P.R. Cavill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-08-13
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0199573832
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For a ruler in Henry's vulnerable position, parliament helped to restore royal authority by securing the good governance that legitimated his regime. For his subjects, parliament served as a medium through which to communicate with the government & to shape, & on occasion criticize, its policies.
Author: Claire Cross
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-05-09
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780521893633
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a collection of specially commissioned research essays by scholars on the government of Tudor England, designed as a tribute from a group of advanced students to their supervisor. Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whom the volume is dedicated, is internationally celebrated, and the most influential living historian of the period. Each essay reflects the special interest of the author, within the broader theme of 'Law and Government'. The book will be read by many who have been influenced by Professor Elton's teaching, but who may not necessarily be students or historians of Tudor England.
Author: J. R. Maddicott
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-05-27
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 0191615013
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Origins of the English Parliament is a magisterial account of the evolution of parliament, from its earliest beginnings in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Starting with the national assemblies which began to meet in the reign of King Æthelstan, it carries the story through to the fully fledged parliament of lords and commons of the early fourteenth century, which came to be seen as representative of the whole nation and which eventually sanctioned the deposition of the king himself in 1327. Throughout, J. R. Maddicott emphasizes parliament's evolution as a continuous process, underpinned by some important common themes. Over the four hundred years covered by the book the chief business of the assembly was always the discussion of national affairs, together with other matters central to the running of the state, such as legislation and justice. It was always a resolutely political body. But its development was also shaped by a series of unforeseen events and episodes. Chief among these were the Norman Conquest, the wars of Richard I and John, and the minority of Henry III. A major turning-point was reached in 1215, when Magna Carta established the need for general consent to taxation - a vital step towards the establishment of parliament itself in the next generation. Covering an exceptionally long time span, The Origins of the English Parliament takes readers to the roots of the English state's central institution, showing how the more familiar parliament of late medieval and early modern England came into being and illuminating the close relationship between particular political episodes and the course of institutional change. Above all, it shows how the origins of parliament lie not in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, as has usually been argued, but in a much more distant past.