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

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.

Peter Cane has written widely in areas of public law, private law and legal theory. He is co-editor (with Lisa Ford and Mark McMillan) of The Cambridge Legal History of Australia and author of Controlling Administrative Power: An Historical Comparison (2016). He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Distinguished Professor of the Australian National University.
H. Kumarasingham teaches at the University of Edinburgh. His work and interests cover the history and politics of the United Kingdom, the late British Empire and the Commonwealth. His publications include the collections Constitution-Maker: Selected Writings of Sir Ivor Jennings (2015) and Viceregalism: The Crown as Head of State in Political Crises in the Postwar Commonwealth (2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.