1. 3 John Sheldrake, Municipal Socialism, Aldershot: Avebury, now Ashgate, 1989.
2. 4 G.D.H. Cole, History of the Labour Party from 1914, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1948, 1969, p451.
3. 8 W. Eric Jackson, Achievement: a short history of the LCC, Harlow: Longman, 1965; Sidney Webb, The Work of the London County Council, London: London Reform Union, 1895. The LCC cleared the infamous Old Nichol slum in Shoreditch, the location of Arthur Morrison’s 1896 novel A Child of the Jago, replacing it with perhaps the first public sector ‘model’ estate.
4. 12 Rodney Hills, ‘The City Council and Electoral Politics 1901-71’ in Charles Feinstein, ed, York 1831-1981, York: Sessions of York, 1981.
5. 13 Tony Adams, ‘Labour and the First World War: Economy, Politics and the Erosion of Local Peculiarity?’ The Journal of Regional and Local Studies 1990 Vol 10.1 p23-47.