Description: The House of Lords presented the stage on which some of the critical confrontations in English and British constitutional and political history were played out in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century. Published for the History of Parliament Trust.
Review Quotes: Honour, Interest and Power tells in lavish detail the story of the survival and revival of the House of Lords in the period from 1660 to 1714. It is published by the History of Parliament Trust, best known for its indispensable reference works on Members of Parliament. This volume is a welcome foray into attracting a general audience. The authors have used their immense knowledge of the period to bring the peerage alive. The book is sumptuous, richly illustrated with the works of the age's great portrait and landscape artists and no less with the authors' succinct depictions of its leading peers.-- "HISTORY TODAY"