Parliament
Subtitle: the biography
By: Chris Bryant
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780857520685; 9780857522245
Subjects: History; Politics and government; Great Britain. Parliament; Great Britain
Description: "This first of two volumes takes us on a 500-year journey from Parliament's earliest days in the thirteenth century through the turbulent years of the Wars of the Roses and the upheavals of the Civil Wars, and up to 1801, when Parliament--and the United Kingdom, embracing Scotland and Ireland--emerged in a modern form. Chris Bryant tells this epic tale through the lives of the myriad MPs, lords and bishops who passed through Parliament. It is the vivid, colourful biography of a cast of characters whose passions and obsessions, strengths and weaknesses laid the foundations of modern democracy."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: volume 1. Ancestral voices; title: volume 2. Reform.