Pioneers or Partisans? Governing Huddersfield 1820-1848 (2008) by David Griffiths
Pioneers or Partisans? Governing Huddersfield 1820-1848 was written by David Griffiths and published in 2008 by the Huddersfield Local History Society.
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- RRP £5.00
- paperback
- 72 pages
- ISBN 9780950913445
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Contents
- Introduction: Turbulent Times
- The Traditional Institutions
- Civic Innovation? — The 1820 Commission
- Lighting the Streets
- 'Watching' and Policing
- Traditional policing arrangements
- Co-operation in the 1820s
- Conflict and crisis in the mid-1830s
- Integration reversed in 1845
- Did it all work?
- Cleansing, Street Management & Public Health
- Whose streets?
- Street cleaning
- Refuse collection
- Other 'nuisances'
- The 1831/2 cholera epidemic
- The Board of Surveyors from 1837
- Drainage and sewerage
- 1844 — looking to the future
- 'Nuisance wars' of 1846/7
- Public health in retrospect
- The Key Players
- 1820 to the mid-30s
- The CLWC from 1836
- Township leaders from 1835
- Comparing the two groups
- Two political cultures
- Looking Back, Looking Forward
- Appendix 1: The Commissioners For Lighting, Watching and Cleansing, 1820-48
- Appendix 2: Principal Police Officers And Magistrates, 1819-48