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Peers and politics, c. 1650-1850 : essays in honour of Clyve Jones / edited by Richard A. Gaunt and D.W. Hayton.

"Clyve Jones did not begin his research career as a parliamentary historian. He served his apprenticeship as a historian with a scholarly edition of the correspondence of Henry Cromwell, son of the lord protector; letters dating from Henry's service in Ireland between 1655 and 1659. This w...

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Other Authors: Gaunt, Richard A. (Editor), Hayton, David, 1949- (Editor), Jones, Clyve, 1944- (honouree.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley for the Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust, 2020.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Parliament > History > 17th century.
Great Britain. > Parliament > History > 18th century.
Great Britain. > Parliament > History > 19th century.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1660-1714.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1714-1837.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1837-1901.
Great Britain. > Parliament.
Politics and government.
Great Britain.
History.
Festschriften.
Table of Contents:
  • Clyve Jones and parliamentary history / D.W. Hayton
  • The Duke's parrot : the Earl of Leicester, the King's children and the English Revolution / Jason Peacey
  • The 'little palaces' of St James's : ladies, lords, and political association under the later Stuarts / Frances Harris
  • Republicans, Unionists and Jacobites :the 1st Marquess of Tweeddale and the restoration of the British Parliament / Graham Townend
  • Playing with fire : the 4th Duke of Hamilton's Jacobite politics and the Union / Daniel Szechi
  • ''Tis not in the power of words to tell what my heart feels in favour of you'; or, What the Ossulston diary does not reveal / Charles Littleton
  • Party and management in the Irish House of Lords, 1713-15 / D.W. Hayton
  • The Members of the House of Lords and the Hanoverian Succession / Stuart Handley
  • 'A reward for so meritorious an action'? : Lord Hervey's summons to the House of Lords and Walpole's management of the upper chamber (1727-42) / Robin Eagles
  • 'Hereditary guardians of the nation' : the House of Lords and the East India Company in the age of the American Revolution / Richard Connors and Ben Gilding
  • A great electioneer and his motives reconsidered : the 4th Duke of Newcastle / Richard A. Gaunt
  • Fixing the membership of the Lords and Commons : the case of Sir John Cam Hobhouse and the Nottingham by-election,1834 205 / John Beckett
  • Bibliography of the published works of Clyve Jones.

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