GB 0097 WEBB LOCAL GOVERNMENT - Webb: Local Government

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GB 0097 WEBB LOCAL GOVERNMENT

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Webb: Local Government

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  • 1906-1930 (Création/Production)

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350 volumes

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Notice biographique

Beatrice and Sidney Webb pooled their respective talents into writing joint works on economic and social issues. They spent 25 years researching and writing their nine-volume English Local Government from the Reformation to the Municipal Corporations Act (Longmans and Co, 1906-1929, and produced other relevant works on the poor law and social relief. For a biographical history of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, see the description for the Passfield personal papers (Ref: Passfield).

Histoire archivistique

Given by Sidney Webb in 1944. The collection was formerly known as Coll V/Local Government Collection.
GB 0097 WEBB LOCAL GOVERNMENT 1906-1930 Collection (fonds) 350 volumes Webb , (Martha) Beatrice , 1858-1943 , wife of 1st Baron Passfield , social reformer and historian
Webb , Sidney James , 1859-1947 , 1st Baron Passfield , social reformer and historian
Beatrice and Sidney Webb pooled their respective talents into writing joint works on economic and social issues. They spent 25 years researching and writing their nine-volume English Local Government from the Reformation to the Municipal Corporations Act (Longmans and Co, 1906-1929, and produced other relevant works on the poor law and social relief. For a biographical history of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, see the description for the Passfield personal papers (Ref: Passfield).

Given by Sidney Webb in 1944. The collection was formerly known as Coll V/Local Government Collection.

Materials on local government collated by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1906-1930, mainly during research for their nine volume English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act (Longmans and Co, London, 1906-1929) and other works on local government and the poor law, including extensive notes taken from parliamentary papers and acts, books, newspapers and local records, and including bibliographical lists, summaries and reports of interviews with members of local authorities, and material on specific counties; material on the poor law, including correspondence and papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, 1905-1909.

The collection is arranged geographically by county.

Open.

Copyright is held by the LSE. No documents may be photocopied.
English
The physical condition of the volumes is fragile and care should be taken when handling them.

Printed handlist available.

The British Library of Political and Economic Science also holds papers collated by Beatrice Webb relating to the Poor Law (Ref: Coll Misc 0865); bylaws of various towns, collected by the Webbs (Ref: Coll Misc 0192-95); and correspondence between Beatrice Webb and Dr McLeary regarding the poor law (Ref: Coll Misc 0979). There is also material concerning poor law and local history in the Passfield papers (Ref: Passfield). For a full list of material relating to the Webbs in the Library and elsewhere, see the description for the Passfield papers.

Sources: British Library of Political and Economic Science Archives catalogue. Compiled by Sarah Aitchison as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997. Mar 2001 Government Local government Poor Law administration Public administration Royal Commission on the Poor Law Social welfare Webb , Martha Beatrice , 1858-1943 , née Potter , social reformer and historian x Potter , Martha Beatrice x Webb , Beatrice Webb , Sidney James , 1859-1947 , 1st Baron Passfield , social reformer and historian x Passfield , 1st Baron

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Materials on local government collated by Sidney and Beatrice Webb, 1906-1930, mainly during research for their nine volume English Local Government from the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act (Longmans and Co, London, 1906-1929) and other works on local government and the poor law, including extensive notes taken from parliamentary papers and acts, books, newspapers and local records, and including bibliographical lists, summaries and reports of interviews with members of local authorities, and material on specific counties; material on the poor law, including correspondence and papers relating to the Royal Commission on the Poor Law, 1905-1909.

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The collection is arranged geographically by county.

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Conditions d'accès

Open.

Conditions de reproduction

Copyright is held by the LSE. No documents may be photocopied.

Langue des documents

  • anglais

Écriture des documents

  • latin

Notes de langue et graphie

English

Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques

The British Library of Political and Economic Science also holds papers collated by Beatrice Webb relating to the Poor Law (Ref: Coll Misc 0865); bylaws of various towns, collected by the Webbs (Ref: Coll Misc 0192-95); and correspondence between Beatrice Webb and Dr McLeary regarding the poor law (Ref: Coll Misc 0979). There is also material concerning poor law and local history in the Passfield papers (Ref: Passfield). For a full list of material relating to the Webbs in the Library and elsewhere, see the description for the Passfield papers.

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Printed handlist available.

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British Library of Political and Economic Science

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Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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  • anglais

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