Minutes Of Proceedings Of The Metropolitan Board Of Works
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Minutes of Proceedings of the Metropolitan Board of Works
Author | : Metropolitan Board of Works (London, England) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1126 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112106516757 |
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The Great Stink of London
Author | : Stephen Halliday,Adam Hart-Davis |
Publsiher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2001-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780752493787 |
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‘An extraordinary history’ PETER ACKROYD, The Times ‘A lively account of (Bazalgette’s) magnificent achievements. . . graphically illustrated’ HERMIONE HOBHOUSE ‘Halliday is good on sanitary engineering and even better on cloaca, crud and putrefaction . . . (he) writes with the relish of one who savours his subject and has deeply researched it. . . splendidly illustrated’ RUTH RENDELL In the sweltering summer of 1858, sewage generated by over two million Londoners was pouring into the Thames, producing a stink so offensive that it drove Members of Parliament from the chamber of the House of Commons. The Times called the crisis ‘The Great Stink’. Parliament had to act – drastic measures were required to clean the Thames and to improve London’s primitive system of sanitation. The great engineer entrusted with this enormous task was Sir Joseph Bazalgette, who rose to the challenge and built the system of intercepting sewers, pumping stations and treatment works that serves London to this day. In the process, he cleansed the Thames and helped banish cholera. The Great Stink of London offers a vivid insight into Bazalgette’s achievements and the era in which he worked and lived, including his heroic battles with politicians and bureaucrats that would transform the face and health of the world’s then largest city.
Minutes of Proceedings
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 590 |
Release | : 1863 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:555098619 |
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Theatre and Governance in Britain 1500 1900
Author | : Tony Fisher |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2017-06-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781107182158 |
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A critical evaluation of how theatre was assimilated to the interests of government by suppressing 'democratic' disorders associated with the stage.
Professionalism Patronage and Public Service in Victorian London
Author | : Gloria Clifton |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781474241229 |
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This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.
The Statutes Revised Edition
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 1128 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z25308570X |
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A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland
Author | : John Pitt Taylor |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 934 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Evidence (Law) |
ISBN | : BL:A0027120197 |
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Needles from the Nile
Author | : Chris Elliott |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2022-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781800855106 |
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In the hearts of London and New York stand their two oldest public monuments, Cleopatra’s Needles, the last of a series of obelisks from Ancient Egypt to be moved abroad during a period of over two thousand years. This book uses the Needles to examine how objects embody the cultures that create them, and how the use, value, and meaning of these objects change as they are transferred between cultures by gift, sale, barter, or theft. It explores the way in which obelisks functioned as imperial trophies, how their transfer was part of the complex political manoeuvring between European powers, America, the Ottoman Empire, and the semi-autonomous rulers of Egypt, and how their acquisition reflected the relative power of these parties. In contrast, it also examines the crucial role that private individuals and finance played in the acquisition and transport of the obelisks, and how popular understanding of them, and of the culture they came from, often differed from those of social and professional elites. It also relates the Needles to contemporary debates about the ownership of cultural artefacts, the legacy of colonial history, and the nature of reception as the process of understanding and valuing the past and its surviving material and immaterial culture.