Talk:History of the English borough

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[edit] Title and/or scope?

Just wondering if we should either add a lot of information to the bottom the page on the Local Government Acts of 1888, 1933, 1958, the 1900 to 1965 metropolitan boroughs, the London boroughs, the post 1974 situation, etc etc; or rename the article (say) History of the English borough to 1889, which is what it is at the moment? Lozleader 16:58, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Good question. I started the article as a place to put material from a 1911 Brittanica article (public domain). As you know, it now overlaps to some extent with burh but also extends into the Victorian period. A couple of options are:

• Turn it into a more complete history of the borough as you suggest
• Divide it into a few articles, possibly relegating the anglo-saxon material to the burh article, and creating separate articles for the post-Norman and modern periods.

I tend to prefer more comprehensive articles, so at the moment I'd opt for your suggestion to add information about the later Local Government Acts. We can always decide later to divide, or let it become the main trunk for sub-articles.

Nesbit 00:09, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] High Steward

There are a lot of biogs which describe someone as the "High Steward" of a town - is there someone able to create a brief article explaining what that title meant? CarolGray 08:53, 29 March 2007 (UTC)