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Cities of Ideas

Historical Urban Studies

Series editors: Jean-Luc Pinol and Richard Rodger

Titles in the series include:

Printed Matters: Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period
Malcolm Gee and Tom Kirk (eds)

Identities in Space: Contested Terrains in the Western City since 1850
Simon Gunn and Robert J. Morris (eds)

Body and City: Histories of Urban Public Health
Sally Sheard and Helen Powers (eds)

Urban Fortunes: Property and Inheritance in the Town, 1700-1900
Jon Stobart and Alastair Owens (eds)

Advertising and the European City: Historical Perspectives
Clemens Wischermann and Elliott Shore (eds)

Urban Governance: Britain and Beyond since 1750
Robert J. Morris and Richard H. Trainor (eds)

The Artisan and the European Town, 1500-1900
Geoffrey Crossick (ed.)

Cathedrals of Urban Modernity:
The First Museums of Contemporary Art, 1800-1930
J. Pedro Lorente

Capital Cities and their Hinterlands in Early Modern Europe
Peter Clark and Bernard Lepetit (eds)

The Representation of Place: Urban Planning and Protest in France and Great Britain, 1950-1980
Michael James Miller

Cities of Ideas

Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain, 1800-2000

Essays in honour of David Reeder

Edited by
Robert Colls
and
Richard Rodger
University of Leicester, UK

First published 2004 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2018 by Routledge
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Contents

1. 1 Civil society and British cities
   Richard Rodger and Robert Colls
2. 2 Taxation and representation in the Victorian city
   Martin Daunton
3. 3 The metropolitan and the municipal: the politics of health and environment in London, 1860-1920
   Bill Luckin
4. 4 Resolving the sewage question: Metropolis Sewage & Essex Reclamation Company, 1865-81
   P.L. Cottrell
5. 5 The Sheffield Democrats' critique of criminal justice in the 1850s
   Chris A. Williams
6. 6 A year in the public life of the British bourgeoisie
   R.J. Morris
7. 7 The common good' and civic promotion: Edinburgh 1860-1914
   Richard Rodger
8. 8 David Reeder's alternative system': the school boards in the 1890s
   Brian Simon
9. 9 Futures from the past: the rise and fall of university liberal adult education
   Bill Williamson
10. 10 Women and citizenship: gender and the built environment in British cities 1870-1939
    Hellen Meller
11. 11 Citizenship, civil society and quality of life: Sutton Model Dwellings Estates 1919-39
    Patricia L. Garside
12. 12 When we lived in communities: working-class culture and its critics
    Robert Colls

1. ii
2. iii
3. iv

Guide

1. Frontispiece David Reeder

David Cannadine was Director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London (1998-2003), and is currently Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Professor of British History at that university. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature. His books include The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy, Class in Britain, and In Churchill's Shadow.

Robert Colls is Professor of English History in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester. He worked with David Reeder at Vaughan College on Department of Adult Education Certificate programmes in social history and social studies, and on the BA Humanities / World Humanities.

P.L. Cottrell is Professor of Financial History at the University of Leicester, where he has been a staff member since 1972. Previously, he taught at the University of Liverpool, and has been a Bye Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, a Visiting Professor at Nihon University, Tokyo, and a Professeur invit, Dpartement d'Histoire conomique et sociale, Universit de Genve. He was a co-founding editor of Financial History Review, after having previously edited Business Archives, Business History and Journal of Transport History. With David Reeder he had the pleasure of helping to develop the Victorian Studies Centre at Leicester and, over some summer weeks, teaching (and other things more convivial) with him at Maddingley Hall.

Martin Daunton is Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Churchill College. His work on urban history includes books on Cardiff and on working class housing. He edited the third volume of the Cambridge Urban History of Britain, and recently published two volumes on the politics of British taxation since 1799. He is currently completing a general survey of British economic history from 1851 to 1951.

Patricia Garside is Research Professor in the European Studies Research Unit at the University of Salford. Her research interests lie chiefly in twentieth-century social and political history, with particular reference to London. She is concerned with the development of public policy, especially housing, health and town planning and is currently contributing to a comparative study of open space provision in London and Baltic capitals including St Petersburg, funded by the Finnish Institute. Recent publications include A Model Guide to Lancashire Mental Hospital Records, 2001 (with Bruce Jackson) and The Conduct of Philanthropy. The William Sutton Trust, 1999.

Bill Luckin is Professor of Urban History at Bolton Institute. He is the author of Pollution and Control: A Social History of the Thames in the Nineteenth Century (1986) and Questions of Power: Electricity and the Environment in Interwar Britain (1990). Bill Luckin is also coeditor, with Roger Cooter, of Accidents in History (1997) and with Dieter Schott and Genevieve Massard-Guilbaud of The Environment and the City: Modern European Cities and the Management of their Resources (Ashgate, 2005).

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