VI. The Round Table Movement and ‘Home Rule All Round’

@article{Kendle1968VITR,
  title={VI. The Round Table Movement and ‘Home Rule All Round’},
  author={John E. Kendle},
  journal={The Historical Journal},
  year={1968},
  volume={11},
  pages={332 - 353},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:159471230}
}
Before 1914 one of the methods often suggested as a solution of the Home Rule problem and the more general one of constitutional reform in the United Kingdom was ‘Home Rule all round’, known also as ‘Devolution’ or ‘Federalism’ dependent on the occasion or the party affiliation of the would-be reformer. The concept was by no means a new one; it had been broached as early as the 1830s and had received much attention in the eighties and nineties at the time of Gladstone's two Home Rule bills. At… 
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