The House of Lords
Subtitle: a thousand years of British tradition.
Contributors: Smith's Peerage Limited.
Publisher: Smith's Peerage
Published: 1994
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
Subjects: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords -- History.; Constitutional history -- Great Britain.; Nobility -- Great Britain -- History.; Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Lord Mackay of Clashfern; title: Note from the sponsor / Celia Lipton-Farris; title: Preface / Robert Smith; title: Introduction / John S. Moore; title: From witenagemot to concilium : the antecedents of the House of Lords, 1042-1215 / H.R. Loyn; title: From King John to the first English duke, 1215-1337 / D.A. Carpenter; title: The nobility in the later Middle Ages, 1337-1485 / John Fines; title: Off with their heads : the Tudor nobility, 1485-1603 / Steven Gunn / The English kill their kings : from divine right to parliamentary monarchy, 1603-1714, the Stuarts / John Miller; title: Lairds and blood feuds : the Scottish nobility to the Act of Union, 1707 / Adam Bruce; title: The nobility ascendant : the Hanoverian settlement, 1714-1832 / John Cannon; title: The fall of the British nobility, 1789-1994 / David Cannadine; title: Will the Lords survive? / J. Enoch Powell; title: Introduction of peers into the House of Lords / Colin Cole; title: A working peer / The Lord Sudeley; title: Classless society? / Keith Wallis; title: Addressing persons of rank / Robert Smith.