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Speakers and the Speakership: Presiding Officers and the Management of Business from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-first Century

Paul Seaward (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3289-6
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160 pages
February 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • First in-depth study since the mid-1960s of how Speakers and the Speakership have operated in Parliament in Britain
  • Includes a contribution by the former Speaker of the House of Commons, Baroness Boothroyd, describing her own tenure of the Speakership
  • Covers practice at Westminster and at Dublin and Edinburgh, and a comparison of Speakers at Westminster and Washington during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
  • Composed of papers from a conference held at the House of Commons in April 2008

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