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
Product code: 9781444332896
| ISBN |
9781444332896 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H228xW152xS10 |
| Series |
Parliamentary History Book Series |
| No. Of Pages |
160 |
| Publisher |
John Wiley and Sons Ltd |