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....
Especially after the Greek Civil War of 1946–1949, Slavic-speaking villagers who had left the region were deprived of the right to return to their homeland. In the vacuum created by their departure, the Greek government installed several quarantine and surveillance measures, invited settlers to ...
was achieved with the secondRepresentation of the People Act(1928). This story of the expansion of the national electorate is important, but there is more to political participation than voting at the national level. Local politics were also important. And being denied a voice and access to ins...
Behind much of this anxiety was a sense that the Third Reform Act of 1884 (see Reform Bill) and changes in local government were precipitating a much more democratic polity, for which the classical liberal state had no easy answers. The example of what was called at the time municipal ...
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 ...