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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

Contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Introduction: Multiple-fatality fires, deregulation and the value of ‘thinking with history’
  3. 1.    From byelaws to building regulations: recasting building control in Britain since the nineteenth century
  4. The onset of public health regulation
  5. The emergence of national regulation
  6. Recasting the Building Regulations
  7. Conclusion
  8. 2.    How red tape saves lives: the law on fire precautions in Britain since the 1970s
  9. The beginnings of proactive regulation
  10. Towards a fire service-led approach
  11. The deregulatory impulse
  12. Conclusion
  13. 3.    The mixed economy of ‘scientific governance’ in twentieth-century Britain
  14. The emergence of fire testing
  15. The ascendancy of jointly funded fire research
  16. The contested nature of fire research
  17. Consumer safety
  18. The era of scientific self-governance
  19. Conclusion
  20. 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
  21. Multiple-fatality fires in HMOs
  22. Licensing HMOs
  23. Conclusion
  24. Conclusion: The need to learn before and after Grenfell
  25. Bibliography
  26. Manuscript collections
  27. Parliamentary papers and other official publications
  28. Other contemporary published reports
  29. News sources
  30. Websites
  31. Secondary sources
  32. Index

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