A History of the House of Lords

London England: Collins. Near Fine/Very Good. 1988. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 000217989X Hardback Hardback.price clipped. Introduction by Leizabeth Longford. Lord Longford has sat in the house of Lords for forty years. For three years he was its Leader, and he was deeply involved in the last major proposals for its reform, in 1968. There is no one better qualified to write a history of the House of Lords which combines cholarship with entertainment and the perceptions that only an insider can bring. Lord Longford's book is not only highly readable, but it is the first history of the House - one of the institutions which has been most influential over the last thousand years in shaping the British constitution and way of life - to be written at a popular level this century. Lord Longford balances his discussion of the constitutional role of the House with an account of some of the major noble houses (like the House of Norfolk) who have sat there. And he concentrates for the last quarter of the book on the twentieth century, to which he can bring the caustic, witty and human illumination of his own experience and style. Illustrated. 224 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .