Professionalism, Patronage and Public Service in Victorian London : The Staff of the Metropolitan Board of Works, 1856-1889 (History: Bloomsbury Academic Collections)

This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.