Peers and politics, c. 1650-1850: essays in honour of Clyve Jones

Abstract

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.