Harry Hayfield
Green
Cavalier Gentleman (as in 17th century Cavalier)
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Nov 18, 2017 7:16:03 GMT
Members will recall that a while ago I posted that I had bought the 1936 edition of the Constitutional Year Book from a local bookshop that sold old books. This edition had the general election results in it from 1924 to 1935. Yesterday whilst waiting for my bus after speaking to Elin Jones AM (Plaid, Ceredigion and Speaker / Presiding Officer of the Assembly) I noted that the book shop had two more copies from 1911 and 1926 which, as a result, had every election result going back to 1885 (which is as far back as the book I have about Welsh elections go). "So why did I not buy them there and then?" Well, the 1911 edition was priced at £50 and the 1926 edition was priced at £80.
Therefore I would like to know the following: If I started a crowdfunding page online to raise the funds to buy these books (and then produce data based on those election results) what sort of perks relating to that data would members feel reasonable to have? For instance, a poster showing their constituency's results over time (1885 - 2017), or a map of the whole country for a certain election?
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Post by johnloony on Nov 18, 2017 19:39:03 GMT
Do those just have parliamentary election results, or local as well? In other words, do they just duplicate F.W.S. Craig?
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Harry Hayfield
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Cavalier Gentleman (as in 17th century Cavalier)
Posts: 2,752
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Post by Harry Hayfield on Nov 19, 2017 8:18:31 GMT
Do those just have parliamentary election results, or local as well? In other words, do they just duplicate F.W.S. Craig? They have just the general election results but as Craig's books were published in the 1960's and these books were published in the years mentioned (1911 and 1926) I am wondering whether Craig duplicated them! |
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Nov 19, 2017 9:49:20 GMT
Do those just have parliamentary election results, or local as well? In other words, do they just duplicate F.W.S. Craig? They have just the general election results but as Craig's books were published in the 1960's and these books were published in the years mentioned (1911 and 1926) I am wondering whether Craig duplicated them! Craig did a much more comprehensive job, verifying figures, names and party sponsorship. Since Craig's work there have been more bits of research, including (e.g.) the definitive work on which candidates were Liberal Unionists and which were Conservatives - see Wesley Ferris, "The Candidates of the Liberal Unionist Party, 1886–1912", Parliamentary History,Vol. 30, pt. 2 (2011), pp. 142–157. Craig has several candidates with an asterisk because he could not be sure. |
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Post by IceAgeComing on Dec 1, 2017 22:44:28 GMT
Craig's books prop up on Amazon and a few other places (Abe Books is another one) for very cheap every so often: I got 1885-1918 and 1918-1950 for less than £1 each last week and if you are an elections nerd they are worth the money. Sure most of the information is on the internet somewhere now (although not everything (they have breakdowns of how two-member seats voted, for example), and that hasn't been the case for that long) but having the actual primary sources is pretty sweet plus I can probably resell them for a profit in the future if I ever want to. Pretty sure that if they are sold at actual shops they'd not be that expensive - certainly not as much as the £70 (!) that some people try to get for them...
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