Volume 1. Exploring the constitution -- I. Perspectives -- The historical constitution / H. Kumarasingham -- Law and the constitution / Peter Cane -- Political constitutionalism / Richard Bellamy -- The economic constitution / Tony Prosser -- Religion and the constitution to 1688 / Pippa Catterall -- Religion and the constitution since the glorious revolution / Pippa Catterall -- The social democratic constitution / K. D. Ewing -- The constitution of rights / Peter Cane -- The people and the constitution / Vernon Bogdanor -- Constitutional theory and thought / Jeffrey Goldsworthy -- II. Actors and institutions -- Monarchy / Edward Cavanagh -- Legislatures / Mike Gordon -- The executive and the administration / Janet McLean -- Judiciaries / Joshua Getzler -- Coercive institutions / Brice Dickson -- 16. Locality, regionality, and centrality / Luke Blaxill -- Political parties / Robert Crowcroft -- III. Politics -- Conservatism / Asanga Welikala -- Liberalism / Emily Jones -- Socialism / Stephen Sedley -- Unionism / James Mitchell and Alan Convery -- Nationalism / Michael Keating. Volume 2. The changing constitution - - The kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England (450–1066) / Simon Keynes -- England after the Conquest / George Garnett -- England in the thirteenth century / Paul Brand -- England in the fourteenth century / Christine Carpenter and Andrew M. Spencer -- England in the fifteenth century / David J. Seipp -- England in the sixteenth century / David Chan Smith -- The English constitution in the seventeenth century : crises of inadequacy / Glenn Burgess -- A European perspective / Tamar Herzog -- Wales before annexation / Robin Chapman Stacey -- The Scottish constitution before 1707 / Laura A. M. Stewart -- The eighteenth-century constitution : settlement and resettlement / R. A. Melikan -- The constitutional and parliamentary history of Ireland till the Union / Thomas Bartlett -- The United Kingdom in the nineteenth century / Ewen A. Cameron -- The United Kingdom in the twentieth century / Andrew Blick -- The twenty-first century constitution / Vernon Bogdanor -- Wales since the Annexation / Matthew Cragoe -- Scotland in the Union / Stephen Tierney -- Ireland in the Union / Donal K. Coffey -- The making of empire / Coel Kirkby -- Constitution and empire / H. Kumarasingham.