Ryan Viera holds a PhD in modern British history from McMaster University and, between 2012 and 2014, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published articles on Victorian and Edwardian political culture in History and Theory, the Journal of Liberal History, and History Compass. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the Canadian House of Commons as a legislative research assistant for Derek Lee, MP, who chaired the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

• Introduction: Efficiency and the Modernisation of Parliamentary Procedure 1: Chapter 1: The Claim to Represent and the Competition for Parliamentary Time 2: Chapter 2: Parliament and Time in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century 3: From the Grand Inquest of the Nation to the Parliamentary Machine 4: Parliament, Time, and the Transnational Parliamentary Modernity of the British World Conclusion Bibliography Index

provides useful and painstaking statistical calculations of the increasing amount of parliamentary business ... there is valuable material in here, alongside indications of possible new directions

Ryan Viera holds a PhD in modern British history from McMaster University and, between 2012 and 2014, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published articles on Victorian and Edwardian political culture in History and Theory, the Journal of Liberal History, and History Compass. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the Canadian House of Commons as a legislative research assistant for Derek Lee, MP, who chaired the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

• Introduction: Efficiency and the Modernisation of Parliamentary Procedure 1: Chapter 1: The Claim to Represent and the Competition for Parliamentary Time 2: Chapter 2: Parliament and Time in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century 3: From the Grand Inquest of the Nation to the Parliamentary Machine 4: Parliament, Time, and the Transnational Parliamentary Modernity of the British World Conclusion Bibliography Index

provides useful and painstaking statistical calculations of the increasing amount of parliamentary business ... there is valuable material in here, alongside indications of possible new directions

Ryan Viera holds a PhD in modern British history from McMaster University and, between 2012 and 2014, was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published articles on Victorian and Edwardian political culture in History and Theory, the Journal of Liberal History, and History Compass. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the Canadian House of Commons as a legislative research assistant for Derek Lee, MP, who chaired the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs.

• Introduction: Efficiency and the Modernisation of Parliamentary Procedure 1: Chapter 1: The Claim to Represent and the Competition for Parliamentary Time 2: Chapter 2: Parliament and Time in the Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century 3: From the Grand Inquest of the Nation to the Parliamentary Machine 4: Parliament, Time, and the Transnational Parliamentary Modernity of the British World Conclusion Bibliography Index

provides useful and painstaking statistical calculations of the increasing amount of parliamentary business ... there is valuable material in here, alongside indications of possible new directions