Tag Archives: Eminent Parliamentarians
Two for the price of one
I mentioned in a previous post that this is the 35th anniversary of my appointment to the Politics Department at the University of Hull. To mark the anniversary, I hosted a reception last week at the University, attended by students … Continue reading
A good week for publications
It has not been a bad week for publications. As readers know, Eminent Parliamentarians was published on Monday. However, it is only one of four. I penned a chapter ‘Opt-Out: Britain’s Unsplendid Isolation’, which has been published in J. Hayward … Continue reading
A special offer
Eminent Parliamentarians: The Speaker’s Lectures was published yesterday. It is in hardback and runs to 295 pages. I am very pleased with how it has come out: it has attracted very positive comments from those who have already seen or … Continue reading
Hot off the presses
Publication date for Eminent Parliamentarians – the volume of the Speaker’s Centenary Lectures – is Monday, 15 October. I have already received advance copies. It has been produced in a quite handsome format by the publishers, Biteback Publishing, who have … Continue reading
Scribbling away
Having completed the proofs for Eminent Parliamentarians, the past few days have been given over to completing the manuscript for the second edition of Parliament in British Politics. I have been working on it for some time: it has required … Continue reading
Eminent Parliamentarians
All the editorial work on Eminent Parliamentarians – the volume of Speaker’s Lectures held last year to mark the centenary of the passage of the Parliament Act 1911 – is now complete. It has taken longer than expected, though the … Continue reading
More for the bookshelf
I have been rather engrossed this month working on the new edition of Parliament in British Politics; I do mean engrossed, hence the light blogging. I have been working on it for some time – an awful lot has happened since … Continue reading
Eminent Parliamentarians
Readers may be interested in this forthcoming publication from Biteback Publishing – it is the collection of Speaker’s Centenary Lectures, delivered last year on outstanding parliamentarians of the past century. I delivered the lecture on Enoch Powell and subsequently took on … Continue reading
