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Book reviewed in this article: The English Nobility in the Late Middle Ap. By Chris Given-Wilson The Rise of the Barristers: A Social History of the English Bar 1590–1640. By Wilfred Prest Petty Foggers and Vipers of the Commonwealth: The Lower Branch of the Legal Profession in Early Modern England. By C. W. Brooks The Union of England and Scotland, 1603–1608. By Bruce Galloway Servility and Service: The Life and Work of Sir John Coke. By Michael B. Young The Private Journals of the Long Parliament, 7 March to I June 1642. Edited by Vernon F. Snow and Anne Steele Young Politics and People in Revolutionary England: Essays in Honour of Ivan Roots. Edited by Colin Jones, Malyn Newitt and Stephen Roberts The Life of James Sharp Avchbishop of St Andrews 1618–1679: A Political Biography. By Julia Buckroyd Revolutionary Politics and Locke's ‘Two Treatises of Government’. By Richard Ashcraft Glencoe and the End of the Highland War. By Paul Hopkins Patronage and Politics in Scotland, 1707–1832. By Ronald M. Sunter A New History of Ireland. Volume IV: Eighteenth-Century Ireland 1691–1800. Edited by T. W. Moody and W. E. Vaughan British Foreign Policy in the Age of Walpole. By Jeremy Black The Aristocracy in England 1660–1914. By J. V. Beckett British Libevalism: Liberal Thought from the 1640s to the 1980s. By Robert Eccleshall British Conservatism: Conservative Thought. from Burke to Thatcher. By Frank O'Gorman Pillars of Government and Other Essays on State and Society c. 1770–c. 1880. By Norman Gash Patronage and Society in Nineteenth-Century England. By J. M. Bourne From Luddism to the First Reform Bill: Reform in England 1810–1932. By J. R. Dinwiddy John Fielden and the Politics of Populav Radicalism 1832–1847. By Steuart Angas Weaver Benjamin Disvaeli Lettevs: 1838–1841. Edited by M. G. Wiebe, J. B. Conacher, john Matthcws and Mary S. Millar 1848: The British State and the Chartist Movement. By John Saville Reactions to Irisk Nationalism: 1863–1914. Edited by Alan O'Day Democracy and Religion: Gladstone and the Liberal Party, 1867–1875 Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England. By George L. Berristein Labour Peopk: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock. By Kenneth O. Morgan The Ideology of the British Right 1918–1939. By G. C. Webber     

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Book reviewed in this article: Henry VI and the Politics of Kingship. By John Watts John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland 1504–1553. By David Loades The Nerves of State. Taxation and the Financing of the English State, 1558–1714. By Michael J. Braddick The Papers of Sir Richard Grosvenor, 1st Bart. (1585–1645). Edted by Richard Cust. The Scottish Parliament 1639–1661. A Political and Constitutional Analysis. By John R. Young Protestantism and Patriotism. Ideologies and the Making of English Foreign Policy, 1650–1668. By Steven C. A. Pincus The House of Lords in the Reign of Charles II. By Andrew Swatland William III and the Godly Revolution. By Tony Claydon The Parliamentary Diary of sir Richard Cocks, 1698–1702. Edited by D. W. Hayton. John Wilkes. A Friend to Liberty. By Peter D. G. Thomas. The Waning of ‘Old Corruption’. The Politics of Economical Reform in Britain, 1779–1846. By Philip Harling Henry Goulbum, 1784–1856. A Political Biography. By Brian Jenkins Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon 1807–1815. By Rory Muir. The Decline of British Radicalism, 1847–1860. By Miles Taylormbridge Citizenship and Community: Liberals, Radicals and Collective Identities in the British Isles, 1865–1931. Edited by Eugenio F. Biagini Officials of Royal Commissions of Inquiry 1870–1939. Compiled by Elaine Harrison Democratic Ideas and the British Labour Movement, 1880–1914. By Loge Barrow and Ian Bullock The Conservatives and British Society, 1880–1990. Edited by Martin Francis and Ina Zweiniger-Bargelowska The Age of Salisbury, 1881–1902. Unionism and Empire. By Richard Shannon. Democratic Rhondda. Politics and Society 1885–1951. By Chris William A History of Conservative Politics, 1900–1996. By John Channley The Republican Crown. Lawyers and the Making Of the State in Twentieth-Century Britain. By Joseph M. Jacob. Out of Control. British Foreign Policy and the Union of Democratic Control 1914–1918. By Sally Harris. Clement Attlee. By Jerry H. Brookshire. The Diaries and Letters of Robert Bernays 1932–1939. An Insider's Account of the House of Commons. Edited by Nick Smart Politics and the Constitution: Essays on British Government. By Vernon Bogdanor. The Heath Government 1970–1974. A Reappraisal. Edited by Stuart Ball and Anthony Seldon     

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Book reviewed in this article: Henry V: The Practice of Kingship. Edited by G. L. Harriss. Union to Reform: A History of the Parliamentary Representation of Wales 1536 to 1832. By Arnold J. James and John E. Thomas. The Parliament of England 1559–1581. By G. R. Elton. The Stuart Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Second Edition. Edited and introduced by J. P. Kenyon. Peers, Politics and Power: The House of Lords 1603–1911. Edited by Clyve Jones and David Lewis Jones. Politics and Ideology in England 1603–1640. By J. P. Sommerville. Rebellion or Revolution? England 1640–1660. By G. E. Aylmer. England's Rise to Greatness 1660–1763. Edited by Stephen B. Baxter. A Fractured Society: The Politics of London in the First Age of Party, 1688–1715. By Gary Stuart De Krey. Virtue, Comtnerce and History: Essays on Political Thought and History, Chiefy in the Eighteenth Century. By J. G. A. Pocock. The London Diaries of William Nicolson Bishop of Carlisle 1702–1718. Edited by Clyve Jones and Geoffrey Holmes. Memoirs of King George 11. By Horace Walpole. Gladstone 1809–1874. By H. C. G. Matthew. The Harlot and the Statesman: The Story of Elizabeth Armitstead and Charles James Fox. By I. M. Davis. Political Communications: The General Election of 1983. Edited by Ivor Crewe and Martin Harrop.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Early Elizabethan Polity. William Cecil and the British Succession Crisis, 1558–1569. By Stephen Alford. Jacobean Gentleman. Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561–1629. By Theodore K. Rabb. Princeton: Princeton University Press. British Identities before Nationalism. Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600–1800. By Colin Kidd. The English Revolution. Politics, Events, Ideas. By Perez Zagorin. Protestantism and National Identity. Britain and Ireland c. 1650‐c. 1850. Edited by Tony Claydon and Ian McBride. Tory and Whig. The Parliamentary Papers of Edward Harley, 3rd Earl of Oxford, and William Hay, M.P. for Seaford, 1716–53. Edited by Stephen Taylor and Clyve Jones. Edmund Burke. Volume 1: 1730–1784. By F. P. Lock. Britannia's Glories. The Walpole Ministry and the 1739 War with Spain. By Philip Woodfine. John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare. Protestant Reaction and English Authority in Late Eighteenth‐Century Ireland. By Ann C. Kavanaugh. George IV. By E. A. Smith. Britain and the American Revolution. Edited by H. T. Dickinson. Unionist Scotland 1800–1997. Edited by Catriona M. M. MacDonald. British Politics on the Eve of Reform. The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–30. By Peter Jupp. Parliamentary Constituencies and their Registers since J 832. A List of Constituencies and their Registers from the Great Reform Act with the British Library's Holdings of Electoral Registers together with the Library's Holdings of Burgess Rolls, Poll Books and Other Registers. By Richard H. A. Cheffins. The Boundary Commissions. Redrawing the UK's Map of Parliamentary Constituencies. By D. J. Rossiter, R. J. Johnston and C. J. Pattie. Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846–1946. By Anthony Howe. Managing the South African War, 1899–1902. Politicians v. Generals. By Keith Terrance Surridge. Opinion Polls. History, Theory and Practice. By Nick Moon. Anthony Crosland. A New Biography. By Kevin Jefferys. Devolution in the United Kingdom. By Vernon Bogdanor. Britain Votes. 6: British Parliamentary Election Results 1997. Compiled and edited by Colin Railings and Michael Thrasher.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families iri Sussex 1280–1400 . By Nigcl Saul.
Parliament and the Crown in the Reign of Mary Tudor . By Jennifer Loach.
Mary Stewart, Queen in Three Kingdoms . Edited by Michael Lynch
The Forced Loan and English Politics 1626–1628 . By Richard Cust.
Reluctant Revolutionaries: Englishmen and the Revolution of 1688 . By W. A. Speck.
A Kingdom without a King: The Journal of the Provisional Government in the Revolution of 1688 . Edited by Robert Beddard.
A Parliamentary History of the Glorious Revolution . Edited by David Lcwis Jones.
War and Economy in the Age of William III and Marlborough . By D. W. Jones.
Robert Harley: Speaker, Secretary of state and Premier Minister . By Brian W. Hill.
London Newspapers in the Age of Walpole. A Study of the Origins of the Modern English Press . By Michael Harris.
Lord Bute: Essays in Reinterpretation . Edited by Karl W. Schweizer.
Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801–1900 Edited by Petcr Cockton.
Patronage and Principle: A Political History of Modern Scotland . By Michael Fry.
Party and Politics, 1830–1852 . By Robert Stewart.
Later Victorian Britain 1867–1900 . Edited by T. R. Gourvish and Alan O'Day.
Florence Arnold-Forster's Irish Journal . Edited by T. W. Moody and R. A. J. Hawkins
The Climax of Liberal Politics: British Liberalism in Theory and Practice 1868–1918 . By Michael Bentley.
The Secret Lives of Trebitsch Lincoln . By Bernard Wasserstein.
The House of Lords . By Donald Shell.     

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Book reviewed in this article: History and Imagination: Essays in Honour of H. R. Trevor-Roper. Edited by Hugh Lloyd-Jones Studies in Irish History Presented to R. Dudley Edwards. Edited by Art Cosgrove and Donal McCartney. Dublin: University College. (Distributed in Great Britain by Colin Smythe Ltd., Gerrards Cross.)1979. [ix], 253 pp. IR £12.00. Ireland under the Union: Varieties of Tension. Essays in Honour of T. W. Moody. Edited by F. S. L. Lyons and R. A. J. Hawkins. Plantation to Partition: Essays in Ulster History in Honour of J. L. McCracken. Edited by Peter Roebuck Documents Illustrating the Crisis of 1297-98 in England. Edited by Michael Prestwich. The Crown and Local Communities in England and France in the Fifteenth Century. Edited by J. R. L. Highfield and Robin Jeffs. The Public Career of Sir Thomas More. By J. A. Guy. Brighton The House of Lords in the Parliaments of Edward VI and Mary I: An Institutional Study. By Michael A. R. Graves. Cambridge Proceedings in the Parliaments of Elizabeth I: Volume I: 1558–1581. Edited by T. E. Hartley. Queen Elizabeth and the Making of Policy 1572–1588. By Wallace T. MacCaffrey. Commonwealth to Protectorate. By Austin Woolrych. The Declaration of Rights 1689. By Lois G. Schwoerer. London Politics 1713–1717: Minutes of a Whig Club 1714–1717, edited by H. Horwitz The Dynamics of Change: The Crisis of the 1750s and English Party Systems. By J. C. D. Clark. The Parliamentary Agents: A History. By D. L. Rydz. Holland House. By Leslie Mitchell. Gladstone: Church, State and Tractarianism. A Study of His Religious Ideas and Attitudes 1809–1859. By Perry Butler. Lord Ripon 1827–1909: A Political Biography. By Anthony Denholm. Lord Randolph Churchill: A Political Life. By R. F. Foster. Edward Carson. By A. T. Q. Stewart. Property and Politics 1870–1914: Landownership, Law, Ideology and Urban Development in England. By Avner Offer. The Nonconformist Conscience: Chapel and Politics 1870–1914. By D. W. Bebbington. Anthony Eden: A Biography. By David Carlton.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Parliament and community. Edited by Art Cosgrove and J.I. McGuire. English Lordship in Ireland 1318–1361. By Robin Frame. The Statesman and the Fanatic: Thomas Wolsey and Thomas More. By Jasper Ridley. The Axe of Elizabeth: England under the Later Tudors 1547–1603. By D.M. Palliser. Calendar of tha Correspondernce of the Smyth Family of Ashton Court 1548–1642. Edited by J.H. Bettey. Faith by Statute: Parliament and the Settlement of Religion 1559. By Norman L. Jones. De Republica Anglorum by Sir Thomas Smith. Edited by Mary Dewar. Charles I: The Personal Monarch. By Charles Carlton. Charles I and the Popish Plot. By Caroline M. Hibbard. The English Republic 1649–3660. By Toby Barnard. England without a King 3649–1660. By Austin Woolrych. The Poet's Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell. By Warren L. Chernaik. William Molyneux of Dublin 1656–1698. By J.G. Simms. Edited by P.H. Kelly. The Glorious Revolution. By John Miller. Hell-Fire Duke: The Lije of tlie Duke of Wharton. By Mark Blackett-Ord. Lord Bolingbroke: Contributions to the Craftsman. Edited by Simon Varey. Pvoceedinp and Debates of the Brifish Parliament Rcspecfirg North America 1754-1 781.Edited by R.C. Simmons and P.D.G. Thomas. The Emergence of the British Two-Party System 1760–1832. By Frank O'Gorman. A Great and Necessary Measure: George Grenville and the Genesis of the Stamp Act 1763–1765. By John L. Bullion. Peaceable Kingdom: Stability and Change in Modern Britain. By Brian Harrison. Palmerston: The Early Years 1784–1841. By Kenneth Bournc. Selections from the Papers of the London Corresponding Society 1792–1799. Edited by Mary Thale. The Great Reform Act of 1832. By Eric J. Evans. Lord Aberdeen: A Political Biography. By Muriel E. Chamberlain. A Political Odyssey: Thornas O'Donnell M.P. for West Kerry 1900–1918. By J. Anthony Gaughan. Britain and Ireland 1914–23. By Sheila Lawlor.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Surviving the Tudors. The ‘Wizard’ Earl of Kildare and English Rule in Ireland, 1537–1586. By Vincent P. Carey. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2002. 240 pp. £39.38. ISBN 1851825495. Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI. By Stephen Alford. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2002. xiv, 233 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0521660556. Parliament at Work. Parliamentary Committees, Political Power and Public Access in Early Modern England. Edited by Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. 2002. xiv, 190 pp. £50.00. ISBN 0851158749. Parliament, Politics and Elections, 1604–1648. Edited by Chris R. Kyle. (Camden Society, 5th Series, Volume XVII). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. 355pp. £45.00. ISBN 0521802148. Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament. House of Commons and the Strafford Trial. Volume 3: 22 March –17 April 1641. Edited by Maija Jansson, assisted by Jennifer Klein Morrison, Alison Plant and Shawn Smith. (The Yale Center for Parliamentary History.) Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. 2001. xxxvii, 608 pp. £ 90.00. ISBN 1580460895. The Journal of Mary Freman Caesar, 1724–1741. Literary and Political Events in Georgian England. Edited, with commentary by Dorothy Bundy Turner Potter. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston. 2002. xxii, 167 pp. £64.95. ISBN 0773472339. Women, Privilege, and Power. British Politics, 1750 to the Present. Edited by Amanda Vickery. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 2001. x, 413 pp. £60.00. ISBN 0804742847. George III. An Essay on Monarchy. By G. M. Ditchfield. London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2002. xi, 233 pp. £45.00. ISBN 03339 1962 9. Grattan. A Life. By R. B. McDowell. Dublin: The Lilliput Press. 2001. viii, 271 pp. £27.56. ISBN 1901 866726. Revolution, Counter‐Revolution and Union. Ireland in the 1790s. Edited by Jim Smyth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xii, 245 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521661099. Trusting Leviathan. The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1799–1914. By Martin Daunton. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 2001. xii, 438 pp. £35.00. ISBN 0521803721. Rational Choice and British Politics. An Analysis of Rhetoric and Manipulation from Peel to Blair. By Iain McLean. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xiv, 256 pp. £40.00 hardback; £17.99 paperback. ISBN 0 1982 95308; 0 1982 95294. Die radikale Herausforderung. Die politische Kultur der englischen Konservativen zwischen laendlicher Tradition und industrieller Modeme (1846–1868). By Andreas Roedder. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2002. 574 pp. £64.80. ISBN 3486566555. The Role of the Member of Parliament since 1868. From Gentlemen to Players. By Michael Rush. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xii, 249 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0 1982 75773. The Lancashire Working Classes c.1880–1930. By Trevor Griffiths. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2001. xi, 390 pp. £ 55.00. ISBN 0 1992 47382. Socialist Women. By June Hannam and Karen Hunt. London: Routledge. 2002. viii, 232 pp. £17.99. ISBN 0415266394.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Nationalism in Ireland. By D. George Boyce Mortmain Legislation and the English Church 1279–1500. By Sandra Raban Parliament and Politics in Late Medieval England. By J.S. Roskell. Knights and Esquires: The Gloucestershire Gentry in the Fourteenth Century. By Nigel Saul. The Tudor Constitution: Documents and Commentary. Edited and introduced by G.R. Elton. Resistance and Compromise: The Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics. By Peter Holmes. Scotland under Morton 1572–80. By George R. Hewitt Northampton: Patronage and Policy at the Court of James I. By Linda Levy Peck. The Private Journals of the Long Parliament 3 January to 5 March 1642. Edited by Willson H. Coates, Anne Steele Young and Vernon F. Snow. Reactions to the English Civil War 1642–1649. Edited by John Morrill The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E.S. de Beer. Estate Management in Eighteenth-Century England: The Building of the Leveson-Gower Fortune. By J.R. Wordie. The Devonshire Diary: William Cavendish, Fourth Duke of Devonshire, Memoranda on State Affairs 1759–1762. Edited by Peter D. Brown and Karl W. Schweizer. Wars and Revolutions: Britain 1760–1815. By Ian R. Christie. Sister Peg: A Pamphlet Hitherto Unknown by David Hume. Edited with an introduction and notes by David R. Raynor. Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters and Straights. By John A. Phillips. The Friends of Peace: Anti-War Liberalism in England 1793–1815. By J.E. Cookson. For the Cause of Truth: Radicalism in London 1796–1821. By J. Ann Hone. Nineteenth-Century Parliamentary Elections in East Yorkshire. By John Markham. The Lion of Freedom: Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Movement 1832–1842. By James Epstein. The Red Earl: The Papers of the Fifth Earl Spencer 1835–1910. Volume I: 1835–1885. Edited by Peter Gordon. Peel, Priests and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland 2841–1846. By Donal A. Kerr. Lord Reading: Rufus Isaacs, First Marquess of Reading, Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India, 1860–1935. By Denis Judd. G.P. Gooch: A Study in History and Politics. By Frank Eyck. De Valera and the Ulster Question 1927–1973. By John Bowman. The People and the Party System: The Referendum and Electoral Reform in British Politics. By Vernon Bogdanor. The Almanac of British Politics. By Robert Waller.     

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Elizabeth's Wars. War, Government and Society in Tudor England The Rule of Law, 1603‐1660. Crown, Courts and Judges. By James S. Hart Jr. Harlow The Crisis of 1614 and the Addled Parliament. Literary and Historical Perspectives. Edited by Stephen Clucas and Rosalind Davies (ed.) Proceedings of the Long Parliament. House of Commons. Volume 4: 19 April– 5June 1641. Edited by Maija Jansson. Rochester The Cult of King Charles the Martyr. By Andrew Lacey Puritan Iconoclasm during the English Civil War. By Julie Spraggon 1 John Morrill, ‘William Dowsing and the Administration of Iconoclasm in the Puritan Revolution’, in The Journal of William Dowsing Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State. France and Great Britain, 1688‐1789. By David Stasavage Palmerston and the Politics of Foreign Policy 1846‐1855. By David Brown Gladstone. By Michael Partridge The Letters of Arnold Stephenson Rowntree to Mary Katherine Rowntree, 1910‐1918. Edited by Ian Packer 1 George L. Bernstein, Liberalism and Liberal Politics in Edwardian England. 2 Elfrida Vipont, Arnold Roumtree. A Life (1955). 3 Among the memoirs published by Rowntree's Liberal contemporaries are F. A. Channing, Memories of Midland Politics, 1885‐1910 (1910); G. Leveson‐Gower, Years of Endeavour 1886‐1907 (1942); and R. Winfrey, Great Men and Others I Have Met (Kettering, 1943). 4 Odyssey of an Edwardian Liberal. The Political Diary of Richard Durning Holt, ed. David Dutton 5 Ian Packer, ‘Religion and the New Liberalism: The Rowntree Family, Quakerism, and Social Reform’, Journal of British Studies. The Scottish Labour Party. History, Institutions and Ideas. Edited by Gerry Hassan British Elections and Parties Review. Volume 11. Edited by Jonathan Tonge, Lynn Bennie, David Denver and Lisa Harrison Volume 12. Edited by Lynne Bennie, Colin Railings, Jonathan Tonge and Paul Webb Volume 13. Edited by Colin Railings, Roger Scully, Jonathan Tonge and Paul Webb     

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Book reviewed in this article: On the Laws and Governance of England. By Sir John Fortescue. The Reign of Elizabeth I. Court and Culture in the Last Decade. Edited by John Guy. Andrew Fletcher. Political Works. Edited by John Robertson. Politics in Eighteenth-Century Wales. By Peter D.G. Thomas. The Rockingham Connection and the Second Founding of the Whig Party, 1768–- 1773. By W.M. Elofson. The House of Lords and Ideological Politics. Lord Salisbury's Referendal Theory and the Conservative Party 1846–1922. By Corinne Comstock Weston. From Salisbury to Major. Continuity and Change in Conservative Politics. By Brendan Evans and Andrew Taylor. British Business and Protection, 1903–32. By Andrew Marrison. Sir Edward Carson. A Dream too Far. By John Hostettler. Callaghan: A Life. By Kenneth O. Morgan. A Partnership for Good? Scottish Politics and the Union since 1880. By Richard J. Finlay.     

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Book reviewed in this article: The Sovereignty of Parliament. History and Philosophy. By Jeffrey Goldsworthy. Edward VI. By Jennifer Loach. Tudor Church Militant. Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation. By Diarmaid MacCulloch. State and Society in Early Modem Scotland. By Julian Goodare. England's Troubles. Seventeenth‐Century English Political Instability in European Context. By Jonathan Scott. Sociability and Power in Late‐Stuart England. The Cultural Worlds of the Verneys 1660–1720. By Susan E. Whyman. Bom to Rule. British Political Elites. By Ellis Wasson. Contesting Ireland. Irish Voices Against England in the Eighteenth Century. By T. O. McLoughlin. The Moravian Church in England 1728–1760. By Colin Podmore. A Life of George Dempster, Scottish M.P. of Dunnichen (1732–1818). By Andrew Munro Lang. John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751–1838. The Duty of Loyalty. By Rose A. Melikan. British Politics in an Age of Reform. By Michael J. Turner. Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform 1790–1885. By Edwin Jaggard. Wellington Studies II. Edited by C. M. Woolgar. Wellington Studies III. Edited by C. M. Woolgar. Protection and Politics. Conservative Economic Discourse, 1815–1852. By Anna Gambles. The Self‐Fashioning of Disraeli, 1818–1851. Edited by Charles Richmond and Paul Smith. Policing Provincial England 1829–1856. The Politics of Reform. By David Philips and Robert D. Storch. Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. Defining the Victorian Nation. Class, Race, Gender and the Reform Act of 1867. By Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland and Jane Rendall. Famine, Land and Politics. British Government and Irish Society 1843–1850. By Peter Gray. Local and Parliamentary Politics in Liverpool from 1800 to 1911. By D. Ben Rees. Lord Salisbury. A Political Biography. By David Steele. The Labour Party. A Centenary History. Edited by Brian Brivati and Richard Heffernan. The British Study of Politics in the Twentieth Century. Edited by Jack Hayward, Brian Barry and Archie Brown. Sacred Cows and Common Sense. The Symbolic Statecraft and Political Culture of the British Labour Party. By Tim Bale.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
England's Empty Throne. Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation 1399–1422. By Paul Strohm.
The Wars of the Roses. Politics and the Constitution in England, c. 1437–1509. By Christine Carpenter.
King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom. By W. B. Patterson.
Dismembering the Body Politic. Partisan Politics in England's Towns 1650–1730. By Paul Halliday.
Gentleman Radical. A Life of John Home Tooke 1736–1812. By Christina and David Bewley.
A War of Ideas. British Attitudes to the Wars against Revolutionary France, 1792–1802. By Emma Vincent Macleod.
Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders. By Don Herzog.
Re-Reading the Constitution. New Narratives in the Political History of England's Long Nineteenth Century. Edited by James Vernon.
Reform and Respectability. The Making of a Middle-Class Liberalism in Early Nineteenth-Century Manchester , By Michael Turner.
Political Unions, Popular Politics and the Great Reform Act of 1832. By Nancy D. LoPatin.
The Journal of John Wodehouse First Earl of Kimberley for 1862–1902. Edited by Angus Hawkins and John Powell.
Liberal by Principle. The Politics of John Wodehouse 1st Earl of Kimberley, 1843–1902. Edited by John Powell.
The Women's Suffrage Movement. New Feminist Perspectives. Edited by Maroula Joannou and June Purvis.
Suffrage and Power. The Women's Movement 1918–1928. By Cheryl Law.
The Politics of the British Constitution. By Michael Foley.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Richard II and the Revolution of 1399. By Michael Bennett. Cheshire and the Tudor State 1480–1560. By Tim Thornton. Political Culture in the Reign of Elizabeth I. Queen and Commonwealth 1558–1585. By A. N. McLaren. Conscience and Allegiance in Seventeenth‐Century England. The Political Significance of Oaths and Engagements. By David Martin Jones. Political Thought in Seventeenth‐Century Ireland. Kingdom or Colony. Edited by Jane Ohlmeyer. Ambition and Failure in Stuart England. The Career of John, First Viscount Scudamore. By Ian Atherton. The Making of the Eighteenth‐Century Irish Constitution. Government, Parliament and the Revenue, 1692–1714. By Charles Ivar McGrath. Professors of the Law. Barristers and English Legal Culture in the Eighteenth Century. By David Lemmings. The Irish Political System 1740–1765. The Golden Age of the Undertakers. By Eoin Magennis. Reform in Great Britain and Germany 1750–1850. Edited by T. C. W. Blanning and Peter Wende. The Age of Unease, Government and Reform in Britain 1782–1832. By Michael J. Turner. The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor: Paul Langford. Volume VII: India: The Hastings Trial 1789–1794. Edited by P. J. Marshall The Quarrel of Macaulay and Croker. Politics and History in the Age of Reform. By William Thomas. The Reform Act 1832 on CD‐ROM. William Smith O'Brien and the Young Ireland Rebellion of 1848. By Robert Sloan. Gladstone Centenary Essays. Edited by David Bebbington and Roger Swift. The March of the Women. A Revisionist Analysis of the Campaign for Women's Suffrage, 1866–1914. By Martin Pugh. Labour's First Century. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Pat Thane and Nick Tiratsoo. The Labour Party in Wales, 1900–2000. Edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams and Deian Hopkin. Augmenting Democracy. Political Movements and Constitutional Reform During the Rise of Labour, 1900–1924. By Andrew Chadwick. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters. Volume 1: The Making of a Politician, 1915–1920. Edited by Robert Self. The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters. Volume 2: The Reform Years, 1921–1927. Edited by Robert Self.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Parliamentary History, Libraries and Records: Essays Presented to Maurice Bond. Edited by H. S. Cobb. London: House of Lords Record Office A History of the County of Chester: Volume II (The Victoria History of the Counties of England). Edited by B. E. Harris. London: Oxford University Press for the Institute of Historical Research Kingship and Unity: Scotland 1000–1306. By G. W. S. Barrow. (The New History of Scotland, Volume 2.) London: Edward Arnold. 1981 Robert Winchelsey and the Crown 1294–1313: A Study in the Defence of Ecclesiastical Liberty. By Jeffrey H. Denton. (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought. Third series, Volume 14.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press John Russell, First Earl of Bedford: One of the King's Men. By Diane Willen. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 23; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd The Lisle Letters. Edited by Muriel St Clare Byrne. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press The Irish Constitutional Revolution of the Sixteenth Century. By Brendan Bradshaw. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press King Charles I. By Pauline Gregg. London: Dent Denzil Holles 1598–1680: A Study of his Political Career. By Patricia Crawford. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 16; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 1. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department A Register of Parliamentary Lists 1660–1761: A Supplement. Edited by David Hayton and Clyve Jones. University of Leicester History Department Occasional Publication No. 3. Leicester: University of Leicester History Department The Correspondence of John Locke. Edited by E. S. de Beer. (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke.) Volume VI: Letters Nos. 2119–2664. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Whig Ascendancy: Colloquies on Hanoverian England. Edited by John Cannon. London: Edward Arnold Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution 1760–1801. By R. B. McDowell. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke. General Editor: Paul Langford. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Volume II: Party, Parliament and the American Crisis 1766–1774. Edited by Paul Langford The English Administrative System 1780–1870. By Sir Norman Chester. Oxford: Clarendon Press Order and Equipoise: The Peerage and the House of Lords 1783–1806. By Michael W. McCahill. London: Royal Historical Society, Studies in History series No. 11; published for the Royal Historical Society by Swift Printers (Publishers) Ltd. Castlereagh. By Wendy Hinde. London: Collins The Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury. By Geoffrey B. A. M. Finlayson. London: Eyre Methuen British Interparty Conferences: A Study of the Procedure of Conciliation in British Politics 1867–1921. By John D. Fair. Oxford: Clarendon Press The Campaign for Prohibition in Victorian England: The United Kingdom Alliance 1872–1895. By A. E. Dingle. London: Croom Helm Joseph Chamberlain: A Political Study. By Richard Jay. Oxford: Clarendon Press Colne Valley: Radicalism to Socialism. The Portrait of a Northern Constituency in the Formative Years of the Labour Party 1890–1910. By David Clark. London: Longman The People's Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics. By Bruce K. Murray. Oxford: Clarendon Press Baldwin Thwarts the Opposition: The British General Election of 1935. By Tom Stannage. London: Croom Helm The Commons in Perspective. By Philip Norton. Oxford: Martin Robertson Works of Art in the House of Lords. Edited by Maurice Bond. London: H. M. S. O.     

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Book reviewed in this article Editorial Office : 400 Elliott Hall, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH 43015 Telephone : 740–368–3642 Fax : 740–368–3643 Recent Prize ‐Winning Books in History : Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform. By Richard L. Kiper. Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution. By Barry Cushman. Women of the Anti‐Slavery Movement: The Weston Sisters. By Clare Taylor. The Great Silent Army of Abolitionism: Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement. By Julie Roy Jeffrey. Africa and the Middle East : Ancient African Civilizations: Kush and Axum. Edited by Stanley Burstein. An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000B.C.‐A.D. 400. By Christopher Ehret. The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Oazdaglis. By Jane Hathaway. God of Battles: Holy Wars of Christianity and Islam. By Peter Partner. The Americas : America Views the Holocaust, 1933–1945: A Brief Documentary History. By Robert H. Abzug. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. By Loren Baritz. The Roots of African‐American Identity: Memory and History in Antebellum Free Communities. By Elizabeth Rauh Bethel. Black Jacks: African American Seamen in the Age of Sail. By W. Jeffrey Bolster. The Two American Presidents: A Dual Biography of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. By Bruce Chadwick. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876–1926. By Steven Conn. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920. By Perry R. Duis. African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and Memory. By Gertrude Jacinta Fraser. Crimes of the Century: From Leopold and Loeb to O. J. Simpson. By Gilbert Geis and Leigh B. Bienen. Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class. By Lawrence Otis Graham. Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois. By Wanda A. Hendricks. Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish‐American and Philippine‐American Wars. By Kristin L. Hoganson. Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, The Cold War, and Modern Feminism. By Daniel Horowitz. Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition. By Robert David Johnson. The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. By Grant D. Jones. The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. By Friedrich Katz. The Four Immigrants Manga: A Japanese Experience in San Francisco, 1904–1924. By Henry Schooling the New South: Pedagogy, Self and Society in North Carolina, 1880–1920. By James L. Leloudis. Aristocratic Encounters: European Travelers and North American Indians. By Harry Liebersohn. Raising Reds: The Young Pioneers, Radical Summer Camps, and Communist Political Culture in the United States. By Paul C. Mishler. Chile and the Great Depression: The Politics of Underdevelopment, 1927–1948. By Michael Monteon. American Heritage Great Minds of History: Interviews by Roger Mudd: Stephen Ambrose, David McCullough, James McPherson, Richard White, Gordon Wood. Edited by Roger Mudd. Introduction by Richard Snow. Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II. By Lawrence R. Samuel. Broadcasting Freedom: Radio, War, and the Politics of Race, 1938–1948. By Barbara Dianne Savage. Native Resistance and the Pax Colonial in New Spain. Edited by Susan Schroeder. Controversies and Commanders: Dispatches from the Army of the Potomac. By Stephen W. Sears. Sectional Nationalism: Massachusetts Conservative Leaders and the Transformation of America, 1815–1836. By Harlow W. Sheidley. Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893. By Douglas Steeples and David O. Whitten. Louisiana in the Age of Jackson: A Clash of Cultures and Personalities. By Joseph G. Tregle Jr. Sugar and Railroads: A Cuban History, 1837–1959. By Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro Garcia. Translated by Franklin W. Knight and Mary Todd. Asia and the Pacific : The Politics of Depoliticization in Republican China: Guomindang Policy towards Student Political Activism. 1927–1949. By Huang Jianli. Kingship and Authority in South Asia. Edited by J. F. Richards. Slaving and Slavery in the Indian Ocean. By Deryck Scarr. Colonial Hegemony and Popular Resistance: Princes, Peasants, and Paramount Power. By Hira Singh. The Chen's Greet Continent: China in Western Minds. By Jonathan D. Spence. Nations and States in Southeast Asia. By Nicholas Tarling. Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution. By Sandra C. Taylor. Europe : The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society, and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited, with an introduction, by Andrew Ayton and J. L. Price. Chaucer and the Late Medieval World. By Lillian Bisson. Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth‐Century Athens. Edited by Deborah Boedeker and Kurt A. Raaflaub. Russia After Lenin: Politics, Culture and Society 1921–1929. By Vladimir Brovkin. In Irons: Britain's Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy. By Richard Buel Jr. The Rise and Full of Class in Britain. By David Cannadine. The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo‐Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance. By Edward Chaney. Frontier and Society in Roman North Africa. By David Cherry. Emerging Democracy in Late Imperial Russia: Case Studies on Local Self‐Government (the Zemstvos), State Duma Elections, the Tsarist Government, and the State Council before and during World War I. Edited by Mary Schaeffer Conroy. Cubism in the Shadow of War: The Avant‐Garde and Politics in Paris 1905–1914. By David Cottington. Dudo of Saint Quentin: History of the Normans. Translated into English, with introduction and notes, by Eric Christiansen. Pilgrim Stories: On and Off the Road to Santiago, Journeys Along an Ancient Way in Modern Spain. By Nancy Louise Frey. Sport and Society in Ancient Greece. By Mark Golden. The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America. Edited by Arthur Gribben. The Renaissance Man and His Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Florence, 1300—‐1600. By Louis Haas. The Madness of Epic: Reading Insanity from Homer to Statius. By Debra Hershkowitz. Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution. By Patrice Higonnet. British Politics on the Eve of Reform: The Duke of Wellington's Administration, 1828–1830. By Peter Jupp. Hitler 1889–1936: Hubris. By Ian Kershaw. The Enigma of 1989: The USSR and the Liberation of Eastern Europe. By Jacques Lévesque. Martin Luther: The Christian between God and Death. By Richard Marius. Women in Early Modern England, 1550–1720. By Sara Mendelson and Patricia Crawford. Heralds of Revolution: Russian Students and the Mythologies of Radicalism. By Susan Morrissey. Working‐class Housing in England Between the Wars: The Beacontree Estate. By Andrzej Olechnowicz. Dublin Slums, 1800–1925: A Study in Urban Geography. By Jacinta Prunty. Facing West: Oriental Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus. Compiled by the Russian Museum of Ethnography and the Jewish Historical Museum of Amsterdam. Stealing the State: Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions. By Steven L. Solnick. National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria. By Erika Thurner. Edited and translated by Gilya Gerda Schmidt. Nationalism, Anti‐Semitism, and Fascism in France. By Michel Winock. Translated by Jane Marie Todd. The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England. By Amanda Vickery. General , Comparative , Historiographical : Christianity and European Culture: Selections from the Work of Christopher Dawson. Edited by Gerald J. Russello.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536–1588. By Ciaran Brady.
Natural Rights and the New Republicanism. By Michael P. Zuckert.
Lords of the Ascendancy. The Irish House of Lords and its Members 1600–1800. By Francis G. James.
Oliver Cromwell. By Peter Gaunt.
British Parliamentary Lists, 1660–1800. A Register. Edited by G. M. Ditchfield, David Hayton and Clyve Jones.
The Suffolk Poll Book 1710. (Raymonds Original Poll Books.) Exeter: S. A. and M. J. Raymond.
The Suffolk Poll Book 1790. (Raymonds Original Poll Books.) Exeter: S. A. and M. J. Raymond.
Lords of Parliament. Studies, 1714–1914. Edited by R. W. Davis.
The Sense of the People: Politics, Culture and Imperialism in England, 1715–1785. By Kathleen Wilson.
British 'Non-Elite' MPs, 1715–1820. By Ian R. Christie.
The Patriot Opposition to Walpole. Politics, Poetry, and National Myth, 1725–1742. By Christine Gerrard.
The Birth of Romantic Radicalism: War, Popular Politics and English Radical Reformism 1800–15. By Peter Spence.
Henry Brougham and his World: A Biography. By Trowbridge H. Ford.
Modern Wales. Politics, Places and People. By Kenneth O. Morgan.
The Liberal Ascendancy, 1830–1886. By T. A. Jenkins.
A Selection from the Diaries of Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby (1826–93) between September 1869 and March 1878. Edited by John Vincent.
The Age of Upheaval. Edwardian Politics 1899–1914. By David Brooks.
A Lonely Grave: The Life and Death of William Redmond. By Terence Denman.
Churchill and the Politics of War, 1940–1941. By Sheila Lawlor.
England Arise! The Labour Party and Popular Politics in the 1940s. By Steven Fielding, Peter Thompson and Nick Tiratsoo.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Queenship and Political Discourse in the Elizabethan Realms. By Natalie Mears The Governing of Britain, 1688–1848. The Executive, Parliament and the People. By Peter Jupp Calendar of State Papers Domestic Series. Of the Reign of Anne, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Volume IV. 1705–1706. Compiled by A. Rumble, C. Dimmer, and others, edited by C.S. Knighton Letters of Marmaduke Coghill, 1722–1738. Edited by D.W. Hayton Elite Women in English Political Life, c. 1754–1790. By Elaine Chalus Unrepentant Tory. Political Selections from the Diaries of the Fourth Duke of Newcastle‐under‐Lyne, 1827–38. Edited by Richard A. Gaunt Liberty and Authority in Victorian Britain. Edited by Peter Mandler Lives of Victorian Political Figures I. Palmerston, Disraeli and Gladstone. Volume Editors: Richard Gaunt [Disraeli] and Michael Partridge [Palmerston and Gladstone] Lords of Misrule. Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain. By Antony Taylor ‘The Blood of Our Sons’. Men, Women and the Renegotiation of British Citizenship during the Great War. By Nicoletta F. Gullace Neville Chamberlain. A Biography. By Robert Self Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. By Susan Pedersen Thatcher. By E.H.H. Green The Rebels. How Blair Mislaid his Majority. By Philip Cowley