The 1958 Life Peerages Act was a major step forward in modernising the membership of the House of Lords. Some remaining anomalies were addressed from 1963.
The Stansgate Case
Division record on hereditary women peers, 1959
Peerage Act 1963
Writ of Summons for Baroness Strange of Knokin, 1963
A transitional House of Lords
Harold Wilson (1916-1995)
Conservative governments and Lords reform
House of Lords Act 1999
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