• What use is the House of Lords, anyway?

  • Feb 23 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
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What use is the House of Lords, anyway?

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  • For longer than it's been possible to talk about British politics, the House of Lords has played an essential role in how this country has been governed. But the 20th century saw their Lordships subordinated to the Commons and many of the peers, known as hereditary peers, stripped of their membership of the upper house. In this episode, Lee and Richard chart the history of the House of Lords and consider how it got to where it is today and ask: what use is the House of Lords in modern Britain?

    In this episode, the following books are mentioned:

    'Dear Bill: A Memoir' by Bill Deedes. Available at: https://amzn.to/3ETBtdi

    'Get In: The Inside Story of Labour under Starmer' by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund. Available at: https://amzn.to/4hNVHUl

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    Since Attlee & Churchill is the podcast all about post-war British political history, hosted by:

    Lee David Evans     is an historian of the Conservative Party and the John Ramsden Fellow at the Mile End Institute, Queen Mary, University of London. He is on social media @LeeDavidEvansUK.

    Richard Johnson is a Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London, and among his other areas of expertise is an historian of the Labour Party. He tweets at @richardmarcj.

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