English_Local_Government

English Local Government

English Local Government

Series of books on UK constitutional and administrative law

Not to be confused with Local government in England.

English Local Government is a series of nine books written by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb between 1906 and 1929 concerning UK constitutional and UK administrative law, relating to public services and local councils.

Volumes

  1. "The Parish and The County". English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. Longmans Green & Co. 1906.
  2. "The Manor and the Borough, Part One". English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. Longmans Green & Co. 1908.
  3. "The Manor and the Borough, Part Two". English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act. Longmans Green & Co. 1908.
  4. "Statutory Authorities for Special Purposes". English Local Government. Longmans Green & Co. 1922.
  5. "The Story of the King's Highway". English Local Government. Longmans Green & Co. 1913.
  6. "English Prisons Under Local Government". English Local Government. Longmans Green & Co. 1922. With preface by George Bernard Shaw.
  7. "English Poor Law History. Part I: The Old Poor Law". English Local Government. 1927.
  8. "English Poor Law History. Part II: The Last Hundred Years, Volume 1". English Local Government. 1929.
  9. "English Poor Law History. Part II: The Last Hundred Years, Volume 2". English Local Government. 1929.

See also

  • Kidd, Alan J. (August 1987). "Historians or Polemicists? How the Webbs Wrote Their History of the English Poor Laws". The Economic History Review. New Series 40 (3). Wiley: 400–417. doi:10.2307/2596252. JSTOR 2596252.
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