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A new unused book.

About the book >.>.> As was observed by Dr. Bush the Record Society wisely made pro- vision for the occasional publication of monographs of this kind in addition to the traditional publication of edited documents a pro- cedure which appears unsuitable for the mass of records generated by nineteenth and twentieth century local authorities. The very nature of this enterprise naturally precludes discussion of matters that have pre- occupied some historians of modern Bristol in particular the city’s economic fortunes. The focus is on local government as seen through its own records. A second volume is designed to contain a study of the Council’s administration of the docks it acquired in 1848 and the major additions purchased in 1884 the manner in which it managed the urban environment and its increasing involvement in education and leisure provision. I wish to thank most warmly Dr. J. Bettey the Hon. General Editor who has most patiently corrected and supported me the staff at the Bristol Record Office and Bristol Central Library who have endured most obligingly my innumerable requests and queries and above all my wife who over the years has not always been quite sure to which century my thoughts and remarks have related. (LL)