England's Revelry
England's Revelry

Author: Emma Griffin

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-08-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780197263211

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Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes.

The Chimney of the World
The Chimney of the World

Author: Stephen Mosley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1135027773

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In this innovative contribution to the field of environmental history, Stephen Mosley explores the devastating human and environmental costs of smoke pollution in the world’s first industrial city.

Popular Recreations in English Society 1700-1850
Popular Recreations in English Society 1700-1850

Author: Robert W. Malcolmson

Publisher: CUP Archive

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780521295956

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Professor Malcolmson provides a full account of the sports, pastimes and festive celebrations of the English labouring people in the eighteenth century.

English Local Prisons, 1860-1900
English Local Prisons, 1860-1900

Author: Sean McConville

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 838

ISBN-13: 1136104046

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The local prisons of the latter half of the nineteenth century refined systems of punishment so harsh that one judge considered the maximum penalty of two years local imprisonment to be the most severe punishment known to English law: "next only to death". This work examines how private perceptions and concerns became public policy. It also traces the move in English government from the rural and aristocratic to the urban and more democratic. It follows the rise of the powerful elite of the higher civil service, describes some of the forces that attempted to oppose it, and provides a window through which to view the process of state formation.

Fighting Fires
Fighting Fires

Author: S. Ewen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-11-27

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0230248403

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The first full-length scholarly history of the British fire service, 1800-1978, this book scrutinizes how firemen created a professional public service incumbent upon municipal government. It examines the influence of major fires and leading personalities within the fire service in constructing a professional ethos for municipal fire brigades.