towns and cities themselves became very important new locations for the expression of the power of the decentralizedstate. After the 1835Municipal Corporations Act, local government, if developing unevenly, was a major part of the new machinery of government. There was a great flowering of civic ...
The hospital claimed to be one of the first to remove its airing courts in 1874. This progressive act was somewhat belittled by the constant complaints of the Commissioners in Lunacy, when they inspected the hospital, of the lack of warmth in the buildings and the poor diet of the patients....
intractable problem ofIrelandbrought existingconstitutionalmethods into question. Behind much of this anxiety was a sense that the Third Reform Act of 1884 (seeReform Bill) and changes in local government were precipitating a much more democratic polity, for which the classical liberal state had no ...