Volumes 1-7 of the History of Parliament.
A major scholarly reference work describing the members, constituencies and activities of the Parliament of England and the United Kingdom.
David Fisher was a contributor to the History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790–1820 and wrote numerous articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
'A new History of Parliament publication is a remarkable event in
its own right. This 28-volume chronicle of Westminster, covering
17,000 MP biographies stretching back to 1386, has rightly been
described by historian David Cannadine as 'the most detailed,
authoritative and comprehensive account' of any legislature in the
world.' Tristram Hunt, The Guardian
'All of this is serious history with formidable scholarship at its
best. … [The volumes] provide a mass of information about not just
the political system of a crucial period of parliamentary history,
but the culture and values of local society. As a source for
historians working in this period they are invaluable …' Total
Politics
'[The volumes] provide an unparalleled reference work for all those
interested in the United Kingdom's social, economic, political and
cultural development. Above all, they offer new and intriguing
insights into the origins of modern representative democracy.' The
House Magazine
'This is a quite astonishing assembly of greater, lesser and
intermediate facts, operational procedures, men and the measures
they … disputed and memorably enacted. The world at the eve of
Reform has been re-created for us, a cathedral of political
history.' Tribune
'Biographies of the 1367 MPs who sat in the Commons in these years,
and histories of the country's 383 constituencies, fathom the
reality behind the polemics of Cobbett and the satire of Dickens
and Thomas Love Peacock. These … volumes are crammed with comédie
humaine and the parliamentary puppetry that seems, as Blake said,
something other than human life.' London Review of Books
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