Honour, Interest and Power: An Illustrated History of the House of Lords, 1660-1715

The House of Lords presented the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Published for the History of Parliament Trust.

List of contents

Foreword by Patrick Cormack, the Chairman of the History of Parliament Trust
'The ancient landmark': the House of Lords in the Constitutional Landscape
The Peerage: recruitment, extinction and the inflation of honours
Getting and spending
The Lords in Parliament
Honour, Power and Privilege
The House of Lords at work
The business of the House
Interest: the lords and the nation
Epilogue: The Hanoverian succession and the 1719 peerage bill

About the author

Ruth Paley, Paul Seaward

Product details

• Authors: Ruth Paley, Ruth Paley, Paul Seaward
• Assisted by: Jennifer (Director) Davey (Editor), Ruth Paley (Editor), Paul Seaward (Editor), Paul (Director) Seaward (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9781843835769
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-576-9
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 189 mm x 249 mm x 29 mm
• Weight: 1254 g
• Illustrations: 180 colour illus.
• Series: History of Parliament; History of Parliament
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration