- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Contributors
- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started
- Surnames
- Britain and America: A Common Heritage
- African‐Caribbean Genealogy
- South Asian Genealogy
- Family History
- Family and Society
- The Antiquarian Tradition
- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches
- Irish Local and Family History
- Scottish Local and Family History
- Welsh Local and Family History
- Women Local and Family Historians
- Place-Names
- Landscape History: The Countryside
- Towns
- Domestic Buildings
- Historic Churches
- Popular Culture
- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual
- Population Levels and Trends
- Agricultural History
- Industrial History
- Labour History
- The Poor
- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Local Government
- Education
- The Twentieth Century
- Record Offices and Special Collections
Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Source:
- The Oxford Companion to Local and Family History
- Author(s):
- R. W. HoyleR. W. Hoyle
Central Government Central government may be readily defined as the central executive of government (the council or Cabinet), the revenue and disbursing departments, Parliament, the government departments concerned with defence, and the law courts. Until the 18th century the royal household ought to be included as an additional element. Generally, central government was located in Westminster, but it has also had its provincial offshoots—in York and Ludlow before ... ...
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- Publishing Information
- General Links for this Work
- Preface
- Contributors
- Tracing a Family Tree: Getting Started
- Surnames
- Britain and America: A Common Heritage
- African‐Caribbean Genealogy
- South Asian Genealogy
- Family History
- Family and Society
- The Antiquarian Tradition
- Local and Regional History: Modern Approaches
- Irish Local and Family History
- Scottish Local and Family History
- Welsh Local and Family History
- Women Local and Family Historians
- Place-Names
- Landscape History: The Countryside
- Towns
- Domestic Buildings
- Historic Churches
- Popular Culture
- Folklore, Customs, and Civic Ritual
- Population Levels and Trends
- Agricultural History
- Industrial History
- Labour History
- The Poor
- Central Government, Courts, and Taxation
- Local Government
- Education
- The Twentieth Century
- Record Offices and Special Collections