Local Government

Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-localised and has limited powers. While in some countries, "government" is normally reserved purely for a national administration (government) (which may be known as a central government or federal government), the term local government is always used specifically in contrast to national government – as well as, in many cases, the activities of sub-national, first-level administrative divisions (which are generally known by names such as …

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24 May 2022 English

Content in British Society, 1939-1951 is arranged in collections corresponding to the archives from which they were sourced. You can read more about the archive materials selected for this resource …

reorganisation, and on the practical efficacy of local government institutions and voluntary organisations. function by 1943, the Survey’s education, local government, and social services sub-committees continued Ministry of Information, the B.B.C., and various local government bodies. The objective of the survey, as stated


24 May 2022 English

British Society, 1939-1951 contains records from collections such as: Records of central government departments and ministries; Records of Local Organizations and Wartime Bodies; Collections of government propaganda. Users can browse, …

Conscription Casualties and Injuries Central and local government Civilian-military Interactions Psychological


5 May 2022 English

Notes of interest with links to documents in Cold War Eastern Europe. Links to photos, maps and compelling stories.

Examples of criminality and petty corruption in local government in the Soviet countryside FCO 28/3839 28 Textual


UNE: University of New England · 28 February 2018 English

By the late 1930s it was widely expected, drawing on the experience of German air raids on Britain in the First World War, that if and when the next war …

commissioners were appointed to coordinate local government schemes for air-raid shelters and emergency welfare was relatively neglected. A range of local government and voluntary organizations – in particular


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

mentioned in my right hon. Friend's National and Local Government (Privatisation) statement, including the scope for privatisation in fl national and local government. QJJ Production The Prime Minister: No.


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Russian

A file containing documents concerning Anglo-Soviet relations. Subjects covered in the file include inconsistency and confusion in Western policy towards the Soviet Union over several years; Soviet efforts to give …


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

February and 20 April mentioned the chaotic local government conditions in Pristina. Jedinstvo, the Kosovo


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

Constantin D?sc?lescu, replacing Ilie Verdeț; and the promotion of Gheorghe Stoica from a position in local government to become one of four deputy prime ministers. Other subjects discussed in the file include the


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 German

A file containing documents concerning a visit to the United Kingdom by the former governing mayor of Berlin and leader of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in Berlin, Hans-Jochen …

Road). 10.45 Uhr: Gespräch mit Minister for Local Government, Rt. Hon. Tom King Begleitung: Dr. Voss Lord Privy Seal, the Rt. Hon. Tom King, Local Government Minister, and members of the House of Lords


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 Russian

A file containing documents relating to embassy sites in London and Moscow. Subjects covered in the file include the American Foreign Missions Act, whose purpose was to regulate the missions …

seemed to have been removed by S122 of the Local Government Planning Land Act of 1980. There were indeed


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