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A sycophant of real ability : the career of Thomas Erskine May / William McKay -- Slumber and success : the House of Commons Library after May / Oonagh Gay -- Magi or mandarins? : contemporary clerkly culture / Emma Crewe -- Persuading the House : the use of the Commons journals as a source of precedent / Martyn Atkins -- Manuals before May : from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century / David Natzler -- Parliamentary law in the eighteenth century : from commonplace to treatise / Paul Seaward -- From manual to authority : the life and times of the treatise / Paul Evans and Andrej Ninkovic -- Controversy at the antipodes (and elsewhere) : the international cousins of the treatise / David Natzler, David Bagnall, Jean-Phillipe Brochu and Peter Fowler -- The principle of progress : May and reform / William McKay -- May on money : supply proceedings and the functions of a legislature / Colin Lee -- A history of the standing orders / Simon Patrick -- Pursuing the efficient despatch of business : the role of committees in procedural reform since 1900 / Mark Egan -- Finding time : legislative procedure since May / Jacqy Sharpe and Paul Evans -- Where did it all go right : developments in select committees, 1913-1960 / Mark Hutton -- A road not taken : select committees and the estimates, 1880-1904 / Colin Lee -- Privilege : the unfolding debate with the courts / Eve Samson -- Is the lex parliamentaria really law? : the House of Commons as a legal system / David Howarth
