The History Of The Scottish Parliament

Author : Keith M Brown
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780748628469

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History of the Scottish Parliament by Keith M Brown Pdf

This is the third volume in The History of the Scottish Parliament. In volumes 1 and 2 the contributors addressed discrete episodes in political history from the early thirteenth century through to 1707, demonstrating the richness of the sources for such historical writing and the importance of parliament to that history. In Volume 3 the contributors have built on that foundation and taken advantage of the Records of the Parliaments of Scotland to discuss a comprehensive range of key themes in the development of parliament. The editors, Keith M. Brown and Alan R. MacDonald, have assembled a team of established and younger scholars who each discuss a theme that ranges over the entire six centuries of the parliament's existence. These include broad, interpretive chapters on each of the key political constituencies represented in parliament. Thus Roland Tanner and Gillian MacIntosh write on parliament and the crown, Roland Tanner and Kirsty McAlister discuss parliament and the church, Keith Brown addresses parliament and the nobility and Alan MacDonald examines parliament and the burghs. Cross-cutting themes are also analysed. The political culture of parliament is the subject of a chapter by Julian Goodare, while parliament and the law, political ideas and social control are dealt with in turn by Mark Godfrey, James Burns and Alastair Mann. Finally, parliament's own procedures are also discussed by Alastair Mann. The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament in Context offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of the workings and significance of this important institution to the history of late medieval and early modern Scotland.

Author : Hassan Gerry Hassan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474454926

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Story of the Scottish Parliament by Hassan Gerry Hassan Pdf

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations. Bringing together the voices of ministers and advisers, leading political scientists and historians, commentators, journalists and former civil servants, it builds an authoritative account of what the Scottish Parliament has made of devolution and an essential guide to the powers Holyrood may need for Scotland to flourish in an increasingly uncertain world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Constitutional history
ISBN : LCCN:2005412524

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The History of the Scottish Parliament by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jim Johnson,James Mitchell
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912387588

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The Scottish Parliament by Jim Johnson,James Mitchell Pdf

Jim Johnston and James Mitchell bring authors from various backgrounds together to discuss the Parliament's future. These voices include a feminist and equalities campaigner, the chairman of Brodies LLP and the President of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, among many others. This short series of think pieces discusses vital issues such as the increased complexity of devolution, the Parliament's new fiscal and welfare powers and the need to respond to public expectations and demands. Interspersed throughout the book are a number of Dear Scottish Parliament... letters from young people across Scotland articulating their hopes and dreams for Scotland for the next 20 years. The Parliament has established itself as an accepted feature in Scotland's political landscape and there is little, if any, debate about its legitimacy as a representative body. At the same time, however, the goodwill towards the Parliament is likely to be tested as MSPs are faced with significant challenges over the next 20 years. This book explores some of these challenges and signposts key priorities in response.

Author : Roland Tanner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061009497

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Parliament and Politics in Scotland, 1567-1707 by Roland Tanner Pdf

"[Volume 2] describes its role in the reign of James VI and throughout the century between the unions of the crowns in 1603 and of the parliaments in 1707, a period of royal absenteeism, religious upheaval, revolutions, civil wars, and economic catastrophe."--Publisher description.

Author : Thomas AW Stewart
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781912387595

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The Scottish Parliament in its Own Words by Thomas AW Stewart Pdf

As part of the Scottish Parliament Oral History Project, around 80 interviews were conducted with staff, MSPs and journalists, old and new, about their careers and experiences at the Scottish Parliament. This book compiles extracts from some of these interviews, detailing the institution's rich history. This is the story of the Scottish Parliament so far, telling its story through those who know it best. Through its comparatively short life, the Parliament has been tested. What was once an upstart institution, unsure of its place in the world, has now become an ingrained part of the nation's political landscape. Now is an ideal moment to take stock of the Parliament's 20-year history – to investigate its origins, its early days and how it has developed over the past two decades.

Author : Gerry Hassan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 9781474454919

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Story of the Scottish Parliament by Gerry Hassan Pdf

Marking the first twenty years of the Scottish Parliament, this collection of essays assesses its impact on Scotland, the UK and Europe, and compares progress against pre-devolution hopes and expectations. Bringing together the voices of ministers and advisers, leading political scientists and historians, commentators, journalists and former civil servants, it builds an authoritative account of what the Scottish Parliament has made of devolution and an essential guide to the powers Holyrood may need for Scotland to flourish in an increasingly uncertain world.

Author : Clyve Jones
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843837176

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A Short History of Parliament by Clyve Jones Pdf

This institutional history charts the development and evolution of parliament from the Scottish and Irish parliaments, through the post-Act of Union parliament and into the devolved assemblies of the 1990s. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution, including membership, parties, constituencies and elections.

Author : Caroline McCracken-Flesher
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 083875547X

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Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament by Caroline McCracken-Flesher Pdf

Culture, Nation, and the New Scottish Parliament asserts that while Scotland's new Parliament (1999) is a creation of laws, politics, and economics, some of the forces underpinning it are cultural, therefore constantly alive and insistently creative. Scotland may not be confined by, but has always lived within and moved forward and outward, through its signs and stories. In the moment of the new Parliament, it is time to cast up Scotland's accounts of past and present, and to review the nation's futures. Readers will find the usual signs of Scotland foregrounded, questioned, and re-energized as contributors trace the dynamic toward a Scottish Parliament. And they will find new signs, whether sounds, sights, or souvenirs come into play, revealing today's performance of a dynamic Scotland. Caroline McCracken-Flesher teaches the novel, the British eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Scottish literature, and literary theory at the University of Wyoming.

Author : Robert S. Rait
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:4064066170561

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The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns by Robert S. Rait Pdf

The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns is a book by Robert S. Rait. It strives to summarize the history of the Scottish Parliament, up to the Union of the Crowns where Scotland and England where unified under a single ruling monarch in 1603.

Author : Gillian MacIntosh
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748630530

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Scottish Parliament under Charles II, 1660-1685 by Gillian MacIntosh Pdf

On 14 May 1660, Charles II, restored to the throne of his father, was proclaimed king of Great Britain and Ireland at the market-cross of Edinburgh, bringing to an end over twenty years of internal upheaval. At the subsequent meeting of the Scottish parliament in January 1661, the ascendant royalist administration sought to abolish all constitutional innovations introduced during the revolutionary period in an attempt to secure the royal prerogative and prevent a repeat of rebellion from below. This book traces the background to the restoration of the monarchy in Scotland, explains why the Scottish political elite were so willing to relinquish power back to the king and assesses the impact of the restrictive Restoration constitutional settlement on subsequent parliamentary sessions in the reign of Charles II. It provides for the first time a detailed account of Charles II's Scottish parliament - who attended and why, what they did and parliament's role under an increasingly authoritarian crown. Tracing the path from the widespread popular royalism that marked the beginning of Charles II's reign to the increasing violence and resistance which the attempted reassertion of the royal prerogative provoked, each session of parliament is set within the political and historical context of the time in which it sat, to provide a fresh perspective on a previously neglected area of Scottish history.

Author : Alan R. MacDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039693

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The Burghs and Parliament in Scotland, c. 1550–1651 by Alan R. MacDonald Pdf

Existing studies of early modern Scotland tend to focus on the crown, the nobility and the church. Yet, from the sixteenth century, a unique national representative assembly of the towns, the Convention of Burghs, provides an insight into the activities of another key group in society. Meeting at least once a year, the Convention consisted of representatives from every parliamentary burgh, and was responsible for apportioning taxation, settling disputes between members, regulating weights and measures, negotiating with the crown on issues of concern to the merchant community. The Convention's role in relation to parliament was particularly significant, for it regulated urban representation, admitted new burghs to parliament, and co-ordinated and oversaw the conduct of the burgess estate in parliament. In this, the first full-length study of the burghs and parliament in Scotland, the influence of this institution is fully analysed over a one hundred year period. Drawing extensively on local and national sources, this book sheds new light upon the way in which parliament acted as a point of contact, a place where legislative business was done, relationships formed and status affirmed. The interactions between centre and localities, and between urban and rural elites are prominent themes, as is Edinburgh's position as the leading burgh and the host of parliament. The study builds upon existing scholarship to place Scotland within the wider British and European context and argues that the Scottish parliament was a distinctive and effective institution which was responsive to the needs of the burghs both collectively and individually.

Author : Clyve Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Legislative bodies
ISBN : 1843835037

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A Short History of Parliament by Clyve Jones Pdf

A Short History of Parliament is a comprehensive institutional history, not a political history of parliament, though politics is included where, as frequently occurred, institutional changes resulted from particular political events. It covers the English parliament from its origins, the pre-1707 Scottish parliament and the pre-1800 Irish parliament, the parliament of Great Britain from 1707 and the parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801, together with sections on the post-devolution parliaments and assemblies set up in the 1990s and on parliaments in the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and the Irish Republic. It considers all aspects of parliament as an institution: membership of both the Lords and the Commons; constituencies, elections and franchises; where the Lords and the Commons met; how business was arranged and managed, including Speakers, the use of committees, the development of parties, lobbying and voting procedures; legal cases in the House of Lords; official recording of and reporting of business and debates; the conflict and balance of power between the two Houses; and the position of the monarch in parliament. Each section contains a chronology listing key events, suggestions for further reading and "inserts" - short anecdotes or accounts of particular figures or episodes which provide lively illustrations of parliament at work in different periods. Clyve Jones is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Historical Research. He has been editor of the journal Parliamentary History since 1986. Previously he was reader in modern history in the University of London and collection development librarian in the Institute of Historical Research. He has published extensively on the history of the House of Lords and of the peerage in the early eighteenth century.

Author : Keith M. Brown,Roland Tanner
Publisher : History of the Scottish Parlia
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0748614850

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The History of the Scottish Parliament: Parliament and politics in Scotland, 1235-1560 by Keith M. Brown,Roland Tanner Pdf

Written by some twenty-five leading scholars, this is the first of three volumes which will be by far the most comprehensive history of the parliament ever published.

Author : Robert Sangster Rait
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1346358885

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The Scottish Parliament Before the Union of the Crowns by Robert Sangster Rait Pdf

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