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This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington.
  • First in-depth study since the mid-1960s of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain
  • Includes contribution by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, describing her own tenure of the Speakership
  • Covers practice at Westminster and at Dublin and Edinburgh, and a comparison of Speakers at Westminster and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008

Speakers and the Speakership: Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century

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    Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
    Publication Date: 12/02/2010
    ISBN13: 9781444332896, 978-1444332896
    ISBN10: 1444332899

    Number of Pages: 160

    Non Fiction , Politics, Philosophy & Society

    Description

    This volume explores the role of the Speaker and the Lord Chancellor in the Westminster Parliament before the advent of democracy, setting it beside the practice at Dublin and Edinburgh over the same period, and the more recent history of the role at London and Washington.
    • First in-depth study since the mid-1960s of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain
    • Includes contribution by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, describing her own tenure of the Speakership
    • Covers practice at Westminster and at Dublin and Edinburgh, and a comparison of Speakers at Westminster and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
    • Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008

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