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The House of Lords : a thousand years of British tradition
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- London : Smith's Peerage, 1994
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- xix, 223 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780952422907, 0952422905
- OCLC
- ocm32173807
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-205) and index.
- Foreword / Lord Mackay of Clashfern -- Note from the sponsor / Celia Lipton-Farris -- Preface / Robert Smith -- Introduction / John S. Moore -- From witenagemot to concilium : the antecedents of the House of Lords, 1042-1215 / H.R. Loyn -- From King John to the first English duke, 1215-1337 / D.A. Carpenter -- The nobility in the later Middle Ages, 1337-1485 / John Fines -- Off with their heads : the Tudor nobility, 1485-1603 / Steven Gunn / The English kill their kings : from divine right to parliamentary monarchy, 1603-1714, the Stuarts / John Miller -- Lairds and blood feuds : the Scottish nobility to the Act of Union, 1707 / Adam Bruce -- The nobility ascendant : the Hanoverian settlement, 1714-1832 / John Cannon -- The fall of the British nobility, 1789-1994 / David Cannadine -- Will the Lords survive? / J. Enoch Powell -- Introduction of peers into the House of Lords / Colin Cole -- A working peer / The Lord Sudeley -- Classless society? / Keith Wallis -- Addressing persons of rank / Robert Smith
- Foreword / Lord Mackay of Clashfern -- Note from the sponsor / Celia Lipton-Farris -- Preface / Robert Smith -- Introduction: A thousand years of tradition / John S. Moore -- From witenagemont to concilium : the antecedents of the House of Lords, 1041-1215 / H. R. Loyn -- From King John to the first English duke, 1215-1337 / David Carpenter -- The nobility in the later Middle Ages, 1337-1485 / John Fines -- Off with their heads : the Tudor nobility, 1485-1603 / Steven Gunn / The English kill their kings : from divine right to parliamentary monarchy, 1603-1714, the Stuarts / John Miller -- Lairds and blood feuds : the Scottish nobility to the Act of Union, 1707 / Adam Bruce -- The nobility ascendant : the Hanoverian settlement, 1714-1832 / John Cannon -- The fall of the British nobility, 1789-1994 / David Cannadine -- Will the Lords survive? / J. Enoch Powell -- Introduction of peers into the House of Lords / Colin Cole -- A working peer / The Lord Sudeley -- Classless society? / Keith Wallis -- Addressing persons of rank / Robert Smith