English Local Government

English Local Government is a series of nine books written by Sidney Webb and Beatrice Webb between 1903 and 1929 concerning UK constitutional and UK administrative law, relating to public services and local councils.

Volumes

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  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.
  10. volumes 10 and 11 were published separately originally but later included in the series: "English Poor Law Policy" and "The History of Liquor Licensing particularly from 1700 to 1830".

See also

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  • 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.