Speakers and the speakership :  presiding officers and the management of business from the middle ages to the 21st century / 
edited by Paul Seaward. 
 - Chichester :  Wiley-Blackwell,  c2010. 
 - v, 153 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Parliamentary history ;  v. 29, pt. 1 .
 - Parliamentary history ;  v. 29, pt. 1. .
<br/><br/> Formerly CIP. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Speakers at war in the late 14th and 15th centuries / Anne Curry -- The Tudor speakers 1485-1601 : choosing, status, work / Alasdair Hawkyard -- Chancellors, presidents and speakers : presiding officers in the Scottish Parliament before the Restoration / Alan R. MacDonald -- Speakers in the 17th-century Irish Parliament / Coleman A. Dennehy -- The reputation and authority of the speaker and the speakership of the House of Commons, 1640-60 / Stephen K. Roberts -- The speaker in the age of party, 1672-1715 / Paul Seaward -- The speakership of the House of Lords, 1660-1832 / Ruth Paley -- Thurlow, Eldon and Lyndhurst and the management of the House of Lords / Richard W. Davis -- "Nothing could exceed the badness of his character even in this bad age" / Sir William McKay -- The role of the speaker in the 20th century / The Rt. Hon. Baroness Boothroyd. 
<br/><br/><br/>Current Copyright Fee: GBP32.00  0 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781444332896 (pbk)  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Great Britain. Parliament.  House of Commons --Speakers.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Great Britain--Politics and government.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>328.410762