Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375101791
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 998

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Frédéric Moret
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443874019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375

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The 1835 Municipal Reform Act is both a consequence and a continuation of the 1832 Reform Act. By dealing with those “citadels of Torysm” that were the municipal corporations, the Whigs not only wanted to confirm their electoral victory, but also to reform the local system that had been largely criticised for decades. Preceding the reform, a thorough investigation was conducted by a group of twenty commissioners – young liberal or radical lawyers – who visited 285 municipal corporations in England and Wales. After public hearings, they wrote, for each borough, a detailed report which provided an accurate picture of the municipal institutions and their functioning over the preceding decades. In describing the political organisation, the administration, the legal and law enforcement functions, the reports showed that the municipal corporations were areas of privileges. Beyond the overview provided by those in favour of reform of a system at breaking point, the reports, while taking into account local situations, measured the role played in urban management by municipal corporations. After an extensive campaign and several petitions, the parliamentary debate resulted in a compromise bill that aimed at reforming only the main royal boroughs. Small towns, as well as large industrial cities, which had not been granted the royal charter of incorporation, were not affected by the reform. Though it carefully treated certain former institutions, the municipal reform fundamentally altered the way administration was run and marked the end of the urban Ancient Regime in England and in Wales.

Author: Betty Chambers
Publisher:
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Category : Bedfordshire
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Widely regarded as a model of its kind, this book, which took eighteen years to prepare, catalogues the printed County maps of Bedfordshire from Christopher Saxton (1576) to the Ordnance Survey of 1901. It also describes the town plans for Bedford, Leighton Buzzard and Luton for the same period. The complex history of different editions of maps is discussed and explained, making the book an indispensable work of reference for collectors, dealers and local historians. One of the most detailed maps discussed, Jeffery's map of 1765, has been reprinted by BHRS.

Author: Thomas Walter Freeman
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 426

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Category : Bedfordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Author: Gray's Inn. Library
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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Author: Nigel E. Agar
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ISBN: 9780851550428
Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 1102

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This is a collection of extracts from Parliamentary Papers and documentary material in Bedfordshire County Record Office to describe the life of the farm worker in nineteenth-century Bedfordshire. A general overview is followed by sections concerned with the poor law, the life of the labourer, migration and emigration, housing, access to land and education, and the Agricultural Labourers' Union. The volume begins with a tribute In Memoriam to Harold Owen White, secretary of BHRS 1965-1980.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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