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‘Too old a country … too long accustomed to regard her life as one and indivisible’: England and the Speaker’s Conference on Devolution

Evans, Adam ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4150-1517 2016. ‘Too old a country … too long accustomed to regard her life as one and indivisible’: England and the Speaker’s Conference on Devolution. Contemporary British History 31 (3) , pp. 366-383. 10.1080/13619462.2016.1245620

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Abstract

The Conference on Devolution, 1919–1920 has been a little studied event in Britain’s constitutional history. However, recent analysis has shed new light on this little studied moment in British constitutional history. Building on Evans (2015), this article focuses on the Conference’s deliberations on the units that would be represented by devolution (i.e. whether devolution would be on national or regional lines) to provide further evidence that the division between intra-parliamentary and directly elected devolution was a cleavage that cut through the entirety of the Conference’s work, as opposed to simply being a source of disagreement at the end of its proceedings. As this debate essentially focused on how England should be governed post-devolution, this article also sheds further light on the history of ‘the English Question’.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Department of Politics and International Relations (POLIR)
Wales Governance Centre (WGCES)
Subjects: D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Uncontrolled Keywords: The English Question, constitutional history, British political history, devolution, territorial governance
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISSN: 1361-9462
Last Modified: 11 Nov 2022 14:48
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/96045

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