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    A History Of Local Government In London
    A History Of Local Government In London
    A History Of Local Government In London
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    A History Of Local Government In London

    By K.G. Whittick

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    With the rise of urban communities came the need to create a system for the regulation of the interaction both social and material between the various interests at play in densely populated communities, in order to maintain order and prevent friction
    between those interests. In a totalitarian system such as a monarchy or dictatorship, this regulation was imposed by the monarch or dictator. The earliest recorded systems arose in ancient Greece and Rome, where monarchy had been rejected making it necessary to evolve a new system, which consisted of a section of the community, seeing themselves as citizens or freemen, banding together and electing leaders from amongst themselves, with a fixed term of office. Up until quite recently society was male dominated, and women, slaves, tradesmen and foreigners were all excluded from this franchise.
    It wasn’t until the twelfth century that the present elements of local government appeared in London and began to develop into the system we know today. There were however centuries of build up to this point which is the subject of this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLondonarium
    Release dateJan 1, 2017
    ISBN9780956258069
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      A History Of Local Government In London - K.G. Whittick

      A HISTORY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LONDON

      From Roman Londinium to the Norman Conquest

      K. G. Whittick MA. MRICS.

      Chartered Building Surveyor

      Front cover illustration, Battle of Hastings the Bayeux Tapestry, from The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris

      Published by

      LONDONIARUM

      2014

      FIRST EDITION

      2014

      First published in England

      by

      LONDONIARUM

      Email: publications@londoniarum.co.uk

      www.Londoniarum.co.uk

      All rights reserved

      Copyright © K G Whittick

      ISBN: 978-0-9562580-6-9

      Typeset in Wordperfect OFFICE X5.

      Printed by

      Berforts Information Press

      LONDON

      PRE ROMAN LONDINIUM

      From the Museum of London.

      EMPEROR CLAUDIUS

      10 BC-54 AD

      The Emperor who added Britain to the Roman Empire Brian Pike

      CONTENTS

      PREFACE

      INTRODUCTION

      ROMAN LONDON

      ROMAN LOCAL GOVERNMENT

      THE END OF ROMAN LONDINIUM

      LONDON BETWEEN ROME AND THE SAXONS

      SAXON LONDON

      SAXON LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN LONDON

      NORMAN LONDON

      CONCLUSION

      GLOSSARY

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      PREFACE.

      My interest in Local Government in London stems from my lifelong professional involvement in the construction industry. I became part of the industry in the late 1940's and continued up to the late 1990's. During these years I had to learn to deal with Building Regulations, such as the quite unique Acts of Parliament and Regulations dealing specifically with the City of London and the London County Council, (later the Greater London Council) as well the multitude of Provincial Model Building Bye-laws. In addition, it was necessary to understand the intricate vagaries of the Town and Country Planning Acts, as well as the system of local government which had built up over the centuries. As a Londoner born and bred and a citizen of this great City, I became interested not only in the Acts of Parliament and Regulations relating to London, but also in their history and development. My first book on this subject dealt with the history of the Party Wall legislation and my second book with the History of Building Control in the twelfth to seventeenth centuries.

      This present book attempts to set out the history of local government, from the founding of the original Roman City in the first century A.D., up to the Norman conquest.

      It goes without saying that I could not have managed to write this book without the help and encouragement of many of my friends and colleagues as well as the forbearance of my family. In particular I would like to mention my daughter Jane Godden for correcting my grammar, as well as my colleagues Dr Mary Ruskin and Malcolm Lelliott for their patience in reading and re-reading my many drafts, and Prof. Malcolm Robinson for his help and guidance on the mysteries of computers and their application to the art of authorship, amongst others.

      Finally, I have inevitably had to use many Latin and medieval terms in the course of writing this book. I have therefore added a Glossary at the end of the text setting out the meanings of most of these terms.

      K G Whittick

      Camden 2014

      INTRODUCTION.

      The Concept of Local Government

      With the rise of urban communities came the need to create a system for the regulation of the interaction both social and material between the various interests at play in densely populated communities, in order to maintain order and prevent friction between those interests. In a totalitarian system such as a monarchy or dictatorship, this regulation was imposed by the monarch or dictator. In the situation which arose in the semi democratic city states of the Peloponnese and Aegean Islands, where rule by monarchy had been rejected, it was necessary for the people themselves to evolve a system for the resolution of the differences of interest between citizens, freemen and slaves, as well as between landowners, tenants and migrants. In seeking a means of resolving those differences a system of civic management arose in which the Athenian law maker Solon played a significant part in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.

      The new system which evolved, consisted of a section of the community, seeing themselves as citizens or freemen, banded together and elected leaders from amongst themselves, these leaders having a fixed term of office. In a Greek city state, such as Athens, these leaders were known as Archons and served for a year. This was a male dominated society; women, slaves, tradesmen,

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