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table of contents
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Multiple-fatality fires, deregulation and the value of ‘thinking with history’
- 1. From byelaws to building regulations: recasting building control in Britain since the nineteenth century
- The onset of public health regulation
- The emergence of national regulation
- Recasting the Building Regulations
- Conclusion
- 2. How red tape saves lives: the law on fire precautions in Britain since the 1970s
- The beginnings of proactive regulation
- Towards a fire service-led approach
- The deregulatory impulse
- Conclusion
- 3. The mixed economy of ‘scientific governance’ in twentieth-century Britain
- The emergence of fire testing
- The ascendancy of jointly funded fire research
- The contested nature of fire research
- Consumer safety
- The era of scientific self-governance
- Conclusion
- 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
- Multiple-fatality fires in HMOs
- Licensing HMOs
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: The need to learn before and after Grenfell
- Bibliography
- Manuscript collections
- Parliamentary papers and other official publications
- Other contemporary published reports
- News sources
- Websites
- Secondary sources
- Index