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City Status in the British Isles, 1830-2002, EPUB eBook

City Status in the British Isles, 1830-2002 EPUB

Part of the Historical Urban Studies Series series

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Based on a wide variety of government and civic records, this book traces the evolution of the changing nature of city status, particularly through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Beginning with an explanation of how city status first became connected to cathedrals in the medieval period, the book explores how during the nineteenth century, links evolved between Anglican diocesan sub-divisions and city creation.

It then shows how in a few years, between 1888 and 1907, the traditional interpretation of a city was overturned as the most major British industrial and commercial towns received city status and lord mayoralties. The second half of the book concentrates on city status during the twentieth century, and particularly the politicisation of the process and the linking of grants to royal occasions.

The study concludes by looking at the city status competitions of 2000 and 2002 in relation to the previous two hundred years of city history.

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