Despite the “No” vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum of September 2014, the issue of potential Scottish secession from the United Kingdom has likely only just begun.The Kingdom to Come is the first book-length look at the consequences and implications of this momentous event.
Peter Hennessy discusses the run-up to the Scottish Independence Referendum and its immediate aftermath, as well as the constitutional issues the referendum opened for the entire United Kingdom. This book includes Hennessy’s personal impressions of recent questioning of the Acts of Union that created Great Britain and describes when he, as the top expert on Britain’s unwritten constitution, became an important voice in what might happen next.The Kingdom to Come also offers a valuable examination of the possible agenda for remaking the constitution in both the medium and long term.
Hennessy surveys the constitutional building site opened up for the whole of the UK by the Scottish referendum, offering personal impressions of the time when the 300-year-old Act of Union was called into question and when he, as the UK's foremost expert on our unwritten constitution, became an important voice in what may happen next.
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Thoughts from South Ronaldsay: Hope, anxiety and the shadow of Orwell |
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The result: the view from Westminster |
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The constitutional building site & the Kingdom to come |
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Peter Hennessy is Attlee Professor of Contemporary British History at Queen Mary, University of London. He was educated at Marling School, Stroud; St John's College, Cambridge; the London School of Economics and Harvard (where he was a Kennedy Scholar 1971 - 72). He spent 20 years in journalism with spells on The Times, the Financial Times and The Economist and as a presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Analysis programme. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and sits as an independent crossbench peer in the House of Lords as Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield.
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