Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
The London County Council Gazette
Author: The London Gazette
Author: Great BritainPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Tramway and Railway World
Author: The Journal of Education
Author: Newspaper Press Directory
Author: London and its Asylums, 1888-1914
Author: Robert EllisPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030444325
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War, it offers a new way to look at institutions and to consider their connections to wider issues that were facing the capital and the nation. The chapters that follow place London at the heart of international networks and debates relating to finance, welfare, architecture, scientific and medical initiatives, and the developing responses to immigrant populations. Overall, it shines a light on the relationships between mental health policies and other ideological priorities.
Willing's Press Guide and Advertisers' Directory and Handbook
Author: London Clerical Workers, 1880–1914
Author: Michael HellerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131732370X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This study is based on a wide range of business sources as well as newspapers, journals, novels and oral history, allowing Heller to put forward a new interpretation of working conditions for London clerks, highlighting the ways in which clerical work changed and modernized over this period.
The Government of Victorian London, 1855-1889
Author: David Edward OwenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674358850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Of all the major cities of Britain, London, the world metropolis, was the last to acquire a modern municipal government. Its antiquated administrative system led to repeated crises as the population doubled within a few decades and reached more than two million in the 1840s. Essential services such as sanitation, water supply, street paving and lighting, relief of the poor, and maintenance of the peace were managed by the vestries of ninety-odd parishes or precincts plus divers ad hoc authorities or commissions. In 1855, with the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the groundwork began to be laid for a rational municipal government. Owen tells in absorbing detail the story of the operations of the Metropolitan Board of Works, its political and other problems, and its limited but significant accomplishments--including the laying down of 83 miles of sewers and the building of the Thames Embankments--before it was replaced in 1889 by the London County Council. His account, based on extensive archival research, is balanced, judicious, lucid, often witty and always urbane.
Willing's Press Guide
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Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
"A guide to the press of the United Kingdom and to the principal publications of Europe, Australia, the Far East, Gulf States, and the U.S.A.