Given all the bibliographic help I've received from this group, I wonder
if I should list it in the bibliography of my thesis. Are there any
stylistic guidelines for that? The Chicago Manual of Style left it
out. :-)
I wonder if anyone out there can help me find histories of Hansard.
I'm interested in almost everything about its early years. For my
thesis, though, I am particularly intersted in these questions:
1. When did Hansard become distributed widely? And how often was
it sent out? I want to know this because it's important for my
study of backbenchers to know at what stage they realized that their
constituents would be expecting them to speak in the house.
2. Is there anything to the theory that the existence and growth
of Hansard itself led to increased participation by MPs in debates,
or even an increased volume of government business?
I am, in short, interested in anything that's been written on
the growth of Hansard and the changing relations between MPs and
their constituents in the first half of the 19th C.
Thanks,
-Joe
<joseph.coohill@history.oxford.ac.uk>