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  1. Title
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction: Multiple-fatality fires, deregulation and the value of ‘thinking with history’
  6. 1. From byelaws to building regulations: recasting building control in Britain since the nineteenth century
    1. The onset of public health regulation
    2. The emergence of national regulation
    3. Recasting the Building Regulations
    4. Conclusion
  7. 2. How red tape saves lives: the law on fire precautions in Britain since the 1970s
    1. The beginnings of proactive regulation
    2. Towards a fire service-led approach
    3. The deregulatory impulse
    4. Conclusion
  8. 3. The mixed economy of ‘scientific governance’ in twentieth-century Britain
    1. The emergence of fire testing
    2. The ascendancy of jointly funded fire research
    3. The contested nature of fire research
    4. Consumer safety
    5. The era of scientific self-governance
    6. Conclusion
  9. 4. The path of least intervention in the ‘great unswept corner of English housing policy’: multiple-fatality fires in houses in multiple occupancy in the 1980s and 1990s
    1. Multiple-fatality fires in HMOs
    2. Licensing HMOs
    3. Conclusion
  10. Conclusion: The need to learn before and after Grenfell
  11. Bibliography
    1. Manuscript collections
    2. Parliamentary papers and other official publications
    3. Other contemporary published reports
    4. News sources
    5. Websites
    6. Secondary sources
  12. Index

Available to purchase in print or download for free at https://www.sas.ac.uk/publications/grenfell

First published 2023 by

University of London Press

Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU

© Shane Ewen, 2023

The right of Shane Ewen to be identified as author of this Work has been asserted by him/her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license.

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.

ISBNs

978-1-914477-25-6 (hardback)

978-1-914477-26-3 (.pdf)

978-1-914477-28-7 (.epub)

DOI

10.14296/rkft3410

Cover design for University of London Press by Nicky Borowiec.

Text set by Westchester Publishing Services in Adobe Garamond Pro Regular.

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