City Status in the British Isles, 1830–2002
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Achieve City Status
Alan Swift
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Charter Trustees
civic identity
Claiming City Status
Coronation Honour
Dame Evelyn Sharp
East Anglian Daily Times
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Give City Status
Granting City Status
Home Office
Letters Patent
Local Government Commission
local government reform
Lord Chancellor's Department
Lord Mayor
Lord Mayoralty
Medway Council
Millennium Competition
Municipal Achievement
municipal governance
political geography
Poor Quality Areas
Potential Election Results
Royal Burgh
royal charters
St Albans
St Asaph
Town Clerk
Town Hall
twentieth century city status process
urban history
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- ISBN 9780754650676
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 May 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
John Beckett is Professor of English Regional History at the University of Nottingham, UK.
