• Foreword by Patrick Cormack, the Chairman of the History of Parliament Trust'The ancient landmark': the House of Lords in the Constitutional LandscapeThe Peerage: recruitment, extinction and the inflation of honoursGetting and spendingThe Lords in ParliamentHonour, Power and PrivilegeThe House of Lords at workThe business of the HouseInterest: the lords and the nationEpilogue: The Hanoverian succession and the 1719 peerage bill

A resounding success: wide-ranging, deceptively deeply researched and often very droll. [.] Huge credit is due to the editors for mandating such a heavily illustrated text [.] and to Boydell for producing such a beautiful volume. [.] Overall, this wholly admirable book makes readily accessible a wealth of detail for specialists, a helpful range of digestible topics for students and an intelligent guide for all those interested in a powerful institution during a period when it may have been at the peak of its political significance.

• Foreword by Patrick Cormack, the Chairman of the History of Parliament Trust'The ancient landmark': the House of Lords in the Constitutional LandscapeThe Peerage: recruitment, extinction and the inflation of honoursGetting and spendingThe Lords in ParliamentHonour, Power and PrivilegeThe House of Lords at workThe business of the HouseInterest: the lords and the nationEpilogue: The Hanoverian succession and the 1719 peerage bill

A resounding success: wide-ranging, deceptively deeply researched and often very droll. [.] Huge credit is due to the editors for mandating such a heavily illustrated text [.] and to Boydell for producing such a beautiful volume. [.] Overall, this wholly admirable book makes readily accessible a wealth of detail for specialists, a helpful range of digestible topics for students and an intelligent guide for all those interested in a powerful institution during a period when it may have been at the peak of its political significance.

• Foreword by Patrick Cormack, the Chairman of the History of Parliament Trust'The ancient landmark': the House of Lords in the Constitutional LandscapeThe Peerage: recruitment, extinction and the inflation of honoursGetting and spendingThe Lords in ParliamentHonour, Power and PrivilegeThe House of Lords at workThe business of the HouseInterest: the lords and the nationEpilogue: The Hanoverian succession and the 1719 peerage bill

A resounding success: wide-ranging, deceptively deeply researched and often very droll. [.] Huge credit is due to the editors for mandating such a heavily illustrated text [.] and to Boydell for producing such a beautiful volume. [.] Overall, this wholly admirable book makes readily accessible a wealth of detail for specialists, a helpful range of digestible topics for students and an intelligent guide for all those interested in a powerful institution during a period when it may have been at the peak of its political significance.