English Local Government

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 1903 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.
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

• UK labour law

External links

• 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.