Speakers and the speakership
Subtitle: presiding officers and the management of business from the middle ages to the 21st century
By: edited by Paul Seaward
Contributors: Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust
Series: Parliamentary history -- v. 29, pt. 1; Parliamentary history -- v. 29, pt. 1.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell for The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781444332896
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Speakers at war in the late 14th and 15th centuries / Anne Curry; title: The Tudor speakers 1485-1601 : choosing, status, work / Alasdair Hawkyard; title: Chancellors, presidents and speakers : presiding officers in the Scottish Parliament before the Restoration / Alan R. MacDonald; title: Speakers in the 17th-century Irish Parliament / Coleman A. Dennehy; title: The reputation and authority of the speaker and the speakership of the House of Commons, 1640-60 / Stephen K. Roberts; title: The speaker in the age of party, 1672-1715 / Paul Seaward; title: The speakership of the House of Lords, 1660-1832 / Ruth Paley; title: Thurlow, Eldon and Lyndhurst and the management of the House of Lords / Richard W. Davis; title: "Nothing could exceed the badness of his character even in this bad age" / Sir William McKay; title: The role of the speaker in the 20th century / The Rt. Hon. Baroness Boothroyd.