A history of the House of Lords / Lord Longford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longford, Frank Pakenham, Earl of, 1905-2001.

Contributor:

Richard Wakeman Collection of Tudor History (University of Pennsylvania)

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords--History.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Politics and government.

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords.

Politics and government.

Local Subjects:

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords--History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Wakeman, Rollin (donor)

Physical Description:

224 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Sutton, 1999.

Summary:

Having himself been a member for 53 years, Longford embarked on a history of the unelected government body since the Norman Conquest to provide a context for what he saw as threats to its existence; it was published in 1988 by William Collins Sons and Company. Seeing the threat renewed a decade later, he added a new preface and offered it again, too late perhaps, for authority was stripped from the House of Lords mere weeks before the book hit the shelves. His wife, noted historical biographer Elizabeth Longford, contributes a prelude. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Contents:

Introduction I The Palace of Westminster 19

Introduction II An Afternoon in the House of Lords 22

Chapter I 1066-1377 The Formation of the House of Lords 27

Chapter II 1377-1603 The House Settles Down 35

Interlude I Some Noble Families 45

Chapter III 1603-1642 Emergence and Dismissal 56

Chapter IV 1642-1660 The Years Between 76

Chapter V 1660-1783 Before 'The Golden Years' and after 81

Interlude II The Death of 'The Great Commoner' 97

Chapter VI 1783-1832 Expansion and Defeat 101

Chapter VII 1832-1905 The Tories in Control 114

Interlude III Some Other Aspects of the Nineteenth Century 123

Chapter VIII 1905-1911 The Showdown 136

Chapter IX 1911-1945 The House in Transition 153

Chapter X The House of Lords from 1945 162

Chapter XI The House of Lords Today 175

Chapter XII Some Social Concerns 191.

Notes:

Originally published: London : Collins, 1988. With new pref.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index.

ISBN:

0750921919

9780750921916

OCLC:

41663295