Constitutional history
Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:
The House of Lords: final manuscript, top copy III, 1970-08 - 1990-08
Annotated draft of JEP's unpublished sequel to "The House of Lords in the Middle Ages", on the era from 1485 to 1547 (chapter 13).
The House of Lords: first draft to 1799, 1970-08 - 1990-08
Annotated draft of JEP's unpublished sequel to "The House of Lords in the Middle Ages", on the era from 1068 to 1799.
The House of Lords: first draft to 1880, 1970-08 - 1990-08
Annotated draft of JEP's unpublished sequel to "The House of Lords in the Middle Ages", on the Irish peerage and the era from 1800 to 1880.
The House of Lords in the Middle Ages, 1947-07 - 1978-03
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912
Cutting from the "Daily Chronicle" supporting WSC's defence of the Insurance Act but rejecting his proposal for regional parliaments in England as unhelpful with regard to the problem of Irish Home Rule.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the reaction in Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 14 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Daily News and Leader on the reaction in London, the Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 15 Sep 1912
Cutting from the People: cartoon and article ridiculing WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England; report of WSC's re-organisation of the Admiralty and his changes to Navy discipline.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: letter to the editor approving WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian: editorial criticising WSC's speech on "English Federalism" as it relates to Irish Home Rule but approving of it as it relates to English local government.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Manchester Guardian on the support of Sir Henry Manton, a leading Birmingham Liberal, for WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Liverpool Daily Courier: cartoon attacking WSC's proposal for separate parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the English regions.
(Untitled), 20 Sep 1912
Cutting from the Municipal Journal: reactions by men involved in local government to WSC's proposal for regional parliaments in England.
(Untitled), 08 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Belfast News-Letter" criticising WSC's advocacy of Home Rule for Ireland as part of a general federal scheme for the United Kingdom.
(Untitled), 09 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Globe" contrasting WSC's present advocacy of federalism with his adoption of the opposite principle when helping to frame the constitution of South Africa.
(Untitled), 10 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Birmingham Gazette and Express": article by Lord Willoughby de Broke criticising WSC's proposals for federalism within the United Kingdom.
(Untitled), 22 Jan 1912
Cutting from the "Huddersfield Examine" [Yorkshire] attacking the Ulster Unionists' declared intention of preventing the Home Rule meeting in Belfast [Ulster, Ireland] and claiming that William Gladstone favoured a measure of Home Rule for all parts of the United Kingdom as early as 1866.
(Untitled), 16 Sep 1912
Letter from [WSC] to [?] expressing his wish that the question of provincial parliaments for England should be ventilated but that it should not get in the way of Home Rule for Ireland.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]
Memorandum by [John Cathcart Wason] on the danger to the Empire posed by the current Home Rule crisis and suggesting that local parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales and, possibly, the English regions on the Canadian and Australian federal model could be the answer. Typescript. Sent with CHAR 2/62/123.
(Untitled), [Dec] [1913]
Cutting from the Dundee Advertiser: speech by John Cathcart Wason advocating local parliaments for Ireland, Scotland, Wales, London and, possibly, English regions.
(Untitled), 03 Jan 1911
(Untitled), 31 Mar 1911
Letter from ? J H (41 Cadogan Square, [London] enclosing and commenting on a pamphlet of 1719 on the independence of the House of Lords [see CHAR 2/51//82]. Annotated with WSC's instruction to "write a vy civil reply & post by hand.".
(Untitled), 1719
"The constitution explain'd, in relation to the independency of the House of Lords. With reasons for strengthning that branch of the legislature most liable to abuse. And an answer to all the objections made to the now-reviv'd Peerage Bill." Sent with CHAR 2/51/81. [2,5-71,[1]p].
(Untitled), 03 Jul 1911
Letter from WSC to Baron de Forest wishing him luck in his electoral contest in West Ham [London] and explaining the value of the National Insurance Bill. Pledges that the Government will not give up its struggle with the House of Lords now that it has reached "the last round." Typescript copy annotated and signed by Edward Marsh.
(Untitled), [c 1910]
Notes by WSC of a conversation in which support was expressed for the Government's introduction into Parliament of [Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman's resolutions on the limitation of the House of Lords' veto].