English Historical Documents

Volume 10 1874-1914

W.D. Handcock, G.M. Young

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781040280386
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

English Historical Documents is the most ambitious, impressive and comprehensive collection of documents on English history ever published. An authoritative work of primary evidence, each volume presents material with exemplary scholarly accuracy. Editorial comment is directed towards making sources intelligible rather than drawing conclusions from them. Full account has been taken of modern textual criticism. A general introduction to each volume portrays the character of the period under review and critical bibliographies have been added to assist further investigation.
Documents collected include treaties, personal letters, statutes, military dispatches, diaries, declarations, newspaper articles, government and cabinet proceedings, orders, acts, sermons, pamphlets, agricultural instructions, charters, grants, guild regulations and voting records.
Volumes are furnished with lavish extra apparatus including genealogical tables, lists of officials, chronologies, diagrams, graphs and maps.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter
• General Preface
• Original Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Editor’s Note
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• SELECT GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Part I. THE MONARCHY
• Part II. PARLIAMENT
• 21. Reorganisation of the Conservative party machine, 1870–4
• 22. Rev. W. Crosskey on the “600” of Birmingham
• 23. Report on corruption in Macclesfield election, 1880
• 24. Chamberlain on the caucus in the election of 1880
• 25. Speaker Brand’s closures sitting of Monday, 31 January to Wednesday, 2 February 1881
• 26. Parliamentary procedure: Gladstone’s motion of urgency, 3 February 1881
• 27. Gladstone’s speech introducing “new procedure”, 20 February 1882
• 28. Corrupt and Illegal Practices Prevention Act, 1883
• 29. Letter from Lord Randolph Churchill to Salisbury, 3 April 1884
• 30. Representation of the People Act, 1884
• 31. Chamberlain’s “ransom” speech, 5 January 1885
• 32. The realities of constituency organisation in 1887
• 33. New procedure in 1887: speech of W. H. Smith, 21 February 1887
• 34. The “Valentine letters” between Balfour and Chamberlain, 14 February 1906
• 35. Campbell-Bannerman’s resolution on House of Lords, 24 June 1907
• 36. Budget statement: (land) taxation proposals, 29 April 1909
• 37. Debate in the House of Lords on Finance Bill
• (a) Lansdowne’s motion, 22 November 1909
• (b) Morley’s speech, 29 November 1909
• (c) Archbishop of York’s speech, 30 November 1909
• 38. Asquith’s speech introducing resolutions prior to the Parliament Bill, 29 March 1910
• 39. Parliament Bill: Balfour’s speech, 2 March 1911
• 40. Parliament Act, 1911
• Part III. NATIONAL RESOURCES: ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
• introduction to part iii
• select bibliography
• A. TABLES
• 41. Total population at censuses of 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911
• 42. Birth rate, death rate and rate of increase of population, 1876 to 1910
• 43. Emigration from the United Kingdom, 1875 to 1914
• 44. Occupations by census groups, 1881, 1891, 1901 and 1911
• 45. Acreages of crops and numbers of livestock for census years 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901, 1911
• 46. Railway returns, 1874 to 1914
• 47. Coal and pig iron production, 1875 to 1914
• 48. Shipping registered as belonging to the United Kingdom, 1875 to 1914
• 49. Principal exports by value, 1875 to 1914
• 50. Foreign trade: Economist volume and value index, 1900 to 1913
• 51. Balance of payments and export of capital by quinquennial averages, 1875 to 1914
• B. DOCUMENTS
• 52. “The steel revolution”, 1878
• 53. Six years of depression, 1873 to 1879
• 54. Depression of the seventies in the iron districts, 1879
• 55. The harvest of 1879
• 56. The Gilchrist-Thomas steel making process, 1879
• 57. American wheat invasion, 1881
• 58. Richmond Commission on Agriculture
• 59. Alkali works: inspectors’ report, 1887
• 60. Alkali works: newer types of work and workers, 1889
• 61. Liquidation of the Barings, November 1890
• 62. Stock Exchange thanks to Bank of England for action over Barings, 30 December 1890
• 63. Speculation in the cycle industry, 1896
• 64. New manufactures: aluminium and calcium carbide, 1896
• 65. Agriculture: Royal Commission of 1893–7, final report
• 66. Tramways in Bristol, 1899; changes in city and industrial life
• 67. Industrial developments in southern England, 1905
• 68. Engineering progress in 1906
• 69. The motor vehicle industry in Britain, 1907
• 70. Industrial development in South Wales and Bristol, 1911
• 71. Foreign trade in 1910
• Part IV. RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES
• introduction to part iv
• select bibliography
• 72. Report of the committee for the revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible, 1870
• 73. Essay by Charles Gore on the Holy Spirit and inspiration, from Lux Mundiy 1889
• 74. Archbishop Temple on evolution at Church Congress of 1896
• 75. Charles Booth on the attitude of the people in London to religion, 1902–3
• 76. Royal Commission on Ecclesiastical Discipline, 1906
• Part V. IRELAND AND IRISH AFFAIRS, 1833–1914
• introduction to part v
• select bibliography
• 77. Royal Commission on Poorer Classes in Ireland, 1836
• 78. Royal Commission on the Occupation of Land in Ireland (Devon Report), 1845
• (a) Improvements
• (b) Con-acre
• (c) Evidence of Caesar G. Otway on resettlement of a Tipperary estate
• (d) Evidence of Joseph Kincaid on resettlement on the Longford estate
• (e) Evidence of Nicholas Maher on middlemen
• (f) Evidence of Edmund Foley on murder at Decies Within, co. Waterford
• (g) Evidence of Thomas Prendergast, tanner and farmer of Clonmel
• (h) Evidence of Griffith estimate of available cultivable waste (table)
• 79. The famine
• (a) Letter from Theobald Mathew to Trevelyan, 18 June 1846
• (b) Routh’s report to Trevelyan on measures taken, 31 July 1846
• (c) Letter from Colonel Jones to Trevelyan on prospects for the winter, 1 September 1846
• (d) Report from Parker to Jones on conditions in Scull and Skibbereen, 31 December 1846
• (e) Famine relief measures: circular from Trevelyan to heads of Irish departments, 10 February 1847
• (f) Report from Caffin on conditions in Scull and Skibbereen, 15 February 1847
• (g) Crisis past in Scull and Skibbereen: third monthly report of relief commissioners, 17 June 1847
• 80. Acts for reform of poor law, June and July
• (a) Act to make further provision for the relief of the poor in Ireland
• (b) Act to provide for the execution of the laws for the relief of the poor in Ireland
• 81. Irish Church Act, 1869
• 82. Irish Landlord and Tenant Act, 1870
• 83. Home Rule resolutions, November 1873 and March 1874
• (a) Resolution of Home Rule Conference at Rotunda cafe, Dublin, 21 November 1873
• (b) Resolutions approved by Home Rule members at conference at City Hall, Dublin, 3 March 1874
• 84. Boycotting, 1880 and 1888
• (a) Speech by C. S. Parnell at Ennis, 19 September 1880
• (b) Special commission’s account of position with regard to Captain Boycott, 1888
• 85. The legislative protection of tenant right, 1880
• 86. Land Law (Ireland) Act, 1881
• 87. Home Rule party pledge, 1884 3°7
• 88. Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 1885
• 89. Home Rule Bill of 1886
• (a) Gladstone’s speech introducing Home Rule Bill, House of Commons, 8 April 1886
• (b) Chamberlain’s speech on second reading, 1 June 1886
• (c) Parnell’s speech on second reading, 7 June 1886
• 90. Cowper Report on operation of the Land Acts, February 1887
• 91. Report of the Parnell commission: conclusions, 13 February 1890
• 92. The O’Shea divorce and the leadership of the Irish party: Gladstone’s letter to John Morley, 24 November 1890
• 93. Irish Land Act, 1903
• 94. The Ulster covenant, 19 September 1912
• Part VI. IMPERIALISM AND FOREIGN AFFAIRS
• introduction to part vi
• select bibliography
• 95. Gladstone and the Bulgarian horrors, 1876
• 96. Beaconsfield’s speech in the House of Lords on the Near Eastern question, 8 February 1877
• 97. Beaconsfield’s speech in the House of Lords defending the Constantinople convention, 18 July 1878
• 98. Gladstone’s first Midlothian speech, Edinburgh, 25 November 1879
• 99. Gladstone’s third Midlothian speech, West Calder, 27 November 1879
• 100. Holland’s speech on the Gladstone government’s policy on the Transvaal, 25 July 1881
• 101. Egypt: Gladstone’s defence of government policy, House of Commons, 24 July 1882
• 102. Cranbrook’s speech on Egypt, House of Lords, 24 July 1882
• 103. Salisbury’s vote of censure on the government on the fall of Khartoum, 26 February 1885
• 104. Gladstone’s demand for £11,000,000 vote of credit for Penjdeh crisis, 27 April 1885
• 105. Uganda: Labouchere’s criticism, 3 February 1893
• 106. Uganda: Grey’s defence of the declaration of protectorate, 1 June 1894
• 107. Chamberlain’s speech at the Royal Colonial Institute, 31 March 1897
• 108. The Jameson raid, 29 December 1895
• 109. Goschen’s speech presenting navy estimates, 10 March 1898
• 110. Goschen’s speech presenting supplementary navy estimates, 22 July 1898
• 111. Battle of Omdurman, 2 September 1898
• 112. The Fashoda crisis, September 1898
• 113. Milner’s “helot” dispatch on the situation in South Africa, 4 May 1899
• 114. Peace of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902
• 115. The Anglo-French entente, 7 April 1904: Dillon’s comment
• 116. McKenna introduces navy estimates, 16 March 1909
• 117. Grey on relations with Germany, 29 March 1909
• 118. Navy estimates, 1909–10: government intention to proceed with four further Dreadnoughts, 26 July 1909
• 119. Navy estimates, 1910–11: First Lord’s tribute to Fisher, 19 March 1910
• Part VII. LAW, PENAL SYSTEM AND COURTS
• introduction to part vii
• select bibliography
• 120. Prison Act, 1877
• 121. Gladstone report on prisons, 1895
• 122. Probation of Offenders Act, 1907
• 123. Prevention of Crime Act, 1908
• 124. Children Act, 1908
• Part VIII. CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT
• introduction to part viii
• select bibliography
• 125. Reconstitution of the Defence Committee, 1903–5
• (a) Balfour’s speech on motion to establish Committee of Defence on a permanent footing, 5 March 1903
• (b) Balfour’s statement in debate on Civil Service estimates, 2 August 1904
• (c) Balfour in discussions of 11 May 1905
• 126. Local Government Act, 1888
• 127. Local Government Act, 1894
• 128. London Government Act 1899
• 129. McDonnell Report on the Civil Service, 1914
• Part IX. EDUCATION
• introduction to part ix
• select bibliography
• 130. Elementary Education Act, 1876
• 131. Bridge Street Technical School, Birmingham, 1884 and 1888
• (a) Opening of the technical school, 1884
• (b) G. W. Kekewich of the Education Department on the department’s attitude (1888)
• 132. Royal Commission on Technical Instruction, 1884
• (a) Examinations under science and art department: subjects examined and assisted
• (b) Position of country in technical skills
• (c) Conclusions
• 133. London School Board: “budget” speech of Sir Richard Temple, 25 January 1887
• 134. Science and art classes in remote areas: Caithness, 1887
• 135. Royal Commission (Cross) on the Elementary Education Acts: examination of the Rev. R. Bruce by Cardinal Manning, 1888
• 136. Elementary Education Act, 1891
• 137. Royal Commission (Bryce) on Secondary Education: conclusion, 1895
• 138. Education Bill, 1902: Balfour’s speech on third reading, 3 December 1902
• 139. Education Act, 1902
• 140. Report to the Privy Council on petition of University College, Liverpool for charter incorporating a university in Liverpool, 10 February 1903
• 141. Training colleges: abolition of denominational restrictions, 1907
• (a) From prefatory memorandum signed R. L. Morant
• (b) Regulation 8: Admission of students
• Part X. POOR LAW AND PROBLEM OF POVERTY
• introduction to part x
• select bibliography
• 142. Indoor and outdoor relief in Wales: extract from letter from Andrew Doyle, inspector to the clerks of unions in Wales
• 143. Contested and uncontested elections for guardians during 1873, 1874 and 1875
• 144. James Bryce on outdoor relief: paper given to first poor law conference of the South Midland District, January 1876
• 145. Outdoor relief in the Eastern District, 1878–9
• 146. Charity Organisation Society in 1881
• 147. Medical Relief Disqualification Removal Act, 1885
• 148. Chamberlain’s circular to guardians urging the provision of work outside the poor law for unemployed, 15 March 1886
• 149. Charles Booth on labour and life in London in 1889
• (a) Statistics of poverty
• (b) The reserve of labour
• (c) Working class lives
• (d) Socialism to preserve individualism
• 150. Charles Booth on old age pensions, 1899
• 151. Pauperism among the aged in the 1890s
• 152. Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905
• 153. Old Age Pensions Act, 1908
• 154. Royal Commission on the Poor Law, 1905–9: Majority Report
• (a) The new problem: chronic under-employment
• (b) Comment on Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905
• (c) Labour Exchanges
• (d) Intermittent employment and some suggested remedies
• (e) Insurance against unemployment
• (f) Permanent system of public assistance for the able-bodied
• (g) Establishment of Voluntary Aid Organisation
• 155. Relief as an encouragement to casual labour, 1906
• 156. Announcement of Winston S. Churchill as president of the Local Government Board on government intention to set up Labour Exchanges and a measure of unemployment insurance, 19 May 1907
• 157. Part II of National Insurance Act, 1911: unemployment insurance
• Part XI. FACTORIES, HEALTH AND HOUSING
• introduction to part xi
• select bibliography
• 158. Public Health Act, 1875
• 159. Act for facilitating the improvement of the dwellings of the working classes in large towns (1875)
• 160. Royal Commission on the Housing of the Working Classes, 1884–5
• (a) Report on railway demolitions
• (b) Report on local authority action
• (c) Evidence of Lord Shaftesbury
• (d) Evidence of Hugh Owen, Permanent Secretary to Local Government Board
• (e) Evidence of Octavia Hill
• 161. John Burnett’s report to Board of Trade on sweating in the East End of London, 1888
• 162. Factories Act, 1891
• 163. Physical Deterioration Committee, 1904
• 164. Trade Boards Act, 1909
• 165. Housing and Town Planning Act, 1909
• 166. National Insurance Act, 1911
• Part XII. TRADE UNIONS AND SOCIALISM
• introduction to part xii
• select bibliography
• 167. Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act, 1875
• 168. Cardinal Manning’s note on his intervention in the dock strike, 16 September 1889
• 169. “Fair wages” resolution, 1891
• 170. Labour relations in Durham mining industry: evidence of W. H. Patterson, secretary of the Durham Miners Association, before Royal Commission on Labour, 8 July 1891
• 171. The ideal sliding scale: evidence of A. Sopwith, representing the Cannock Chase coal owners, before Royal Commission on Labour, 8 December 1891
• 172. Foundation of the Independent Labour party, 13 and 14 January 1893
• (a) Ben Tillett’s speech at Bradford Labour Conference, 1893
• (b) Object of the Independent Labour party
• 173. Railway Regulation (Hours of Labour) Act, 1893
• 174. Mining dispute, 1893
• (a) Prime Minister’s letter offering the mediation of Lord Rosebery, 13 November 1893
• (b) Terms of settlement, 17 November 1893
• 175. Conciliation Act, 1896
• 176. Engineers’ dispute, 1897: conditions of settlement
• 177. Trade Union Congress, Plymouth: instruction to parliamentary committee to call conference on Labour representation, 6 September 1899
• 178. Taff Vale case, 1901: decision of Mr Justice Farwell
• 179. Caxton Hall conference, 16 February 1905
• 180. Trades Disputes Act, 1906
• 181. Coal Mines Regulation Act, 1908
• 182. The Times leader on the shipping strike, 11 July 1911
• 183. The railway strike, 1911
• (a) Unions’ ultimatum to the companies, 15 August 1911
• (b) The Times leader, 17 August 1911
• (c) Telegram summoning railway workers to strike
• (d) Agreement terminating strike, 19 August 1911
• 184. Coal strike: Asquith on government intervention and attitude, 4 March 1912
• 185. Coal Mines (Minimum Wage) Act, 1912
• 186. Trade Union Act, 1913
• APPENDICES
• I. select chart pedigrees 1833 to 1914
• i. Descent of Queen Victoria
• ii. Family of Queen Victoria
• iii. Royal family 1901 to 1914
• II. general elections 1833 to 1914
• III. prime ministers 1833 to 1914
• IV. table of archbishops 1833 to 1914
• V. 1833–1914: a chronology of the texts in volume xii (1), (2)
• INDEX TO TEXTS