The Cambridge Constitutional History of the United Kingdom: Volume 2, The Changing Constitution

The second volume of a pioneering constitutional history of the United Kingdom, written by an international team of experts.

Peter Cane (Edited by), H. Kumarasingham (Edited by)

9781009277099, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 August 2023

505 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 3.3 cm, 1.04 kg

'The editors 'steer away from stale orthodoxies and insular complacency, interrogating instead Whig assumptions about English exceptionalism … The most significant departure from the old orthodoxy here is the editors' remapping of this most stubbornly Anglocentric of fields. They have commissioned essays on a plurality of jurisdictions and legislatures, not just Scottish, Irish and Welsh, but also the wider empire and Commonwealth.' Colin Kidd, London Review of Books

Featuring contributions from leading scholars of history, law and politics, this path-breaking work traces the development of the United Kingdom's constitution from Anglo-Saxon times and explores its role in the creation, exercise and control of public power. Essays in Volume Two, entitled 'The Changing Constitution', examine the development of the constitution from the departure of the Romans up to the present day and beyond. Together, the two volumes form the first, wide-ranging history of the constitution to be published for more than 50 years. By its cross-disciplinary approach, taking account of the latest legal, political and historical scholarship on the constitution, it fills a large gap in the literature of the constitution, and in political thought and British history.

23. The kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England Simon Keynes
24. England after the conquest George Garnett
25. England in the thirteenth century Paul Brand
26. England in the fourteenth century Christine Carpenter and Andrew Spencer
27. England in the fifteenth century David J. Seipp
28. England in the sixteenth century David Chan Smith
29. The english constitution in the seventeenth century: crises of inadequacy Glenn Burgess
30. A European perspective Tamar Herzog
31. Wales before annexation Robin Chapman Stacey
32. The Scottish constitution before 1707 Laura A. M. Stewart
33. The eighteenth-century constitution: settlement and resettlement R. A. Melikan
34. The constitutional and parliamentary history of Ireland till the union Thomas Bartlett
35. The United Kingdom in the nineteenth century Ewen A. Cameron
36. The United Kingdom in the twentieth century Andrew Blick
37. The twenty-first century constitution Vernon Bogdanor
38. Wales since the annexation Robert Cragoe
39. Scotland in the union Stephen Tierney
40. Ireland in the union Donal Coffey
41. The making of empire Coel Kirkby
42. constitution and empire H. Kumarasingham.

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND]