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The House of Commons, 1820-1832
The House of Commons, 1820-1832
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Published: 2009
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A major scholarly reference work describing the members, constituencies and activities of the Parliament of England and the United Kingdom.
Parliaments, Nations and Identities in Britain and Ireland, 1660-1850
Author: Julian Hoppit
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2003-10-10
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780719062476
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This groundbreaking volume address these questions from a variety of perspectives, showing how the parliaments at Dublin, Edinburgh and, Westminster, were seen and used in very different ways by people from very different communities.
The House of Commons
The Unreformed House of Commons
Rethinking the Age of Reform
Author: Arthur Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-11-13
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0521823943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book takes a look at the 'age of reform', from 1780 when reform became a common object of aspiration, to the 1830s - the era of the 'Reform Ministry' and of the Great Reform Act of 1832 - and beyond, when such aspirations were realized more frequently. It pays close attention to what contemporaries termed 'reform', identifying two strands, institutional and moral, which interacted in complex ways. Particular reforming initiatives singled out for attention include those targeting parliament, government, the law, the Church, medicine, slavery, regimens of self-care, opera, theatre, and art institutions, while later chapters situate British reform in its imperial and European contexts. An extended introduction provides a point of entry to the history and historiography of the period. The book will therefore stimulate fresh thinking about this formative period of British history.
Democracy and the Vote in British Politics, 1848-1867
Author: Robert Saunders
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-13
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1317153162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Second Reform Act, passed in 1867, created a million new voters, doubling the electorate and propelling the British state into the age of mass politics. It marked the end of a twenty year struggle for the working class vote, in which seven different governments had promised change. Yet the standard works on 1867 are more than forty years old and no study has ever been published of reform in prior decades. This study provides the first analysis of the subject from 1848 to 1867, ranging from the demise of Chartism to the passage of the Second Reform Act. Recapturing the vibrancy of the issue and its place at the heart of Victorian political culture, it focuses not only on the reform debate itself, but on a whole series of related controversies, including the growth of trade unionism, the impact of the 1848 revolutions and the discussion of French and American democracy.
UNREFORMED HOUSE OF COMMONS,
Author: EDWARD. PORRITT
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033323106
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Honour, Interest & Power
Author: Ruth Paley
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9781843835769
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Condemned as 'useless and dangerous', the House of Lords was abolished in the revolution of 1649, shortly after the execution of the King. When it was reinstated, along with the monarchy, as part of the Restoration of 1660, the House entered into one of the most turbulent and dramatic periods in its history. Over the next half century or more, the Lords were the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out: the battles over the exclusion from the throne of the later James II; the key debates over the 'abdication' of William III; the many struggles over the Act of Union with Scotland. This highly illustrated book presents the first results from the research undertaken by the History of Parliament Trust on the peers and bishops between the Restoration and the accession of George I. It shows them as politicians at Westminster, engaging with the central arguments of the day, but also using Parliament to pursue their own projects; as members of an elite intensely conscious of their status and determined to defend their honour against commoners, Irish peers and each other; as a class apart, always active in devising new schemes - successful and unsuccessful - to increase their wealth and 'interest'; and as local grandees, to whom local society looked for leadership and protection. From the proud Duke of Somerset to the beggarly Lord Mohun, from the devious Earl of Oxford to the disgruntled Lord Lucas, the material here presents an initial impression of the nature of the Restoration House of Lords and the men who formed it, showing them in their best moments, when they vigorously defended the law and the constitution, and in their worst, as they obsessively concerned themselves with honour and precedence and indefatigably pursued private interests. Edited by Ruth Paley and Paul Seaward, with Beverly Adams, Robin Eagles, Stuart Handley and Charles Littleton
