Notes on Contributors
(David Hayton and Linda Clark) Preface
(Paul Seaward) Why the History of Parliament Has Not Been Written
(Gwilym Dodd) William Stubbs, Parliament and the Medieval English Constitution
(Paul Cavill) A.F. Pollard
(Chris R. Kyle) Constitutionalists, Despots, Whigs, and Revisionists: Tudor Parliamentary History in the 20th Century
(Stephen K. Roberts) King Pym and his 'Happy, Scrappy Jester'
(Amy Blakeway and Laura A.M. Stewart) Writing Scottish Parliamentary History, c.1500-1707
(D.W. Hayton) Parties in Parliament in the 18th Century: The Demolition of Robert Walcott and its Consequences
(Nigel Aston) John Brooke and the Namierite Succession
(Richard A. Gaunt) Norman Gash and the Making of Mr Secretary Peel
(Alex Middleton) 'High Politics' and its Intellectual Contexts
(Philip Bull) An Irish Party and the British Parliament: Conor Cruise O'Brien's Parnell and His Party
(Paul Corthorn) Enoch Powell, Parliament and Europe
(Michael Bentley) Parliamentary History: An Oblique Glance
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D.W. Hayton is Emeritus Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast and a former editor of Parliamentary History.
Linda Clark edited the History of Parliament volumes on The House of Commons 1422-1461 (2020) and is General Editor of The Fifteenth Century series.