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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

Cover: Before Grenfell, Fire, Safety and Deregulation in Twentieth-Century Britain by Shane Ewen

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