{"product_id":"9780552779968","title":"Parliament: The Biography (Volume II - Reform)","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Bryant, Chris \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/11\/2015,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 496 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780552779968,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last two hundred years Parliament has witnessed and effected dramatic and often turbulent change.  Political parties rose – and fell. The old aristocratic order passed away. The vote was won for the working classes and, eventually, for women. The world was torn apart by two extraordinarily bloody wars. And individual politicians were cheered for their altruism or their bravery and jeered for their sexual or financial misdemeanours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis second volume of Chris Bryant’s majestic Parliament: The Biography has a cast of characters that includes some of British history’s most famous names: the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George, Churchill and Thatcher. Its recurring theme is reform and innovation, but it also lays bare obsessive respect for the past and a dedication to evolution rather than revolution, which has left us with a fudged constitution still perilously dependent on custom, convention and gentlemen’s agreements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is riveting, flawlessly researched and accessible popular history for anyone with an interest in why modern Britain is the nation it is today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697701814316,"sku":"9780552779968","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780552779968.jpg?v=1722599943","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.info\/products\/9780552779968","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}