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What has been the contribution of the Lord Chancellors to our twentieth-century heritage?
What has been the contribution of the Lord Chancellors to our twentieth-century heritage?
The concluding article in Steven Watson’s studies of Britain’s Lord Chancellors.
Steven Watson offers a defence of Britain's imperial experience in India.
The crisis of 1909-11 involved two General Elections and a threat to flood the House of Lords with newly created Liberal peers. It ended, as Steven Watson notes here, in a triumph for the progenitors of the modern welfare state.