First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.

Bradshaw (clinical practice, Oxford Brookes U.) describes the British apprenticeship model of nurse training, from its inception at St. Thomas's Hospital in 1860 until its ending in 1977 with the publication of the last national syllabus from the General Nursing Council for England and Wales. A sampling of topics includes the principles of apprenticeship described in Florence Nightingale's writings, an analysis of nursing textbooks, Parliamentary debates about nursing, the American influence on the British nursing tradition, and the process which led to the professional consensus on apprenticeship breaking. c. Book News Inc.

The establishment of free public libraries in England resulted from a bill in 1850 requiring a rate contribution for town libraries. Four Select Committee reports issued between 1849 and 1852 provide the essential extent of parliamentary concern in this field. Chaired by William Ewart, an active parliamentary reformer, these committees were motivated by a desire to promote the cultural benefits of good literature among the general public and particularly among the agricultural population. -- Publisher's catalogue.

The strange story of the Assyrian Reliefs in the Metropolitan Museum and the Hidden Masterpiece at Canford School. This volume includes previously unpublished photographs, illustrations from rare nineteenth century sources, and passages from the diary of Lady Charlotte Guest (cousin of Austen Henry Layard).

The IUP Income Tax set contains the reports of the two major parliamentary investigations into the working of the income tax code held during the nineteenth century. Appendices to the report contain extensive statistical data on tax assessed and collected. -- Publisher's catalogue.

The Parliamentary Papers in this set document the government role in meeting the needs of society for police protection, investigating the existing conditions and providing the control necessary for reorganization and adminstration of the force. The investigations of Select Committees between 1812 and 1828 (IUP volumes Police 1 to 4) revealed the utter disorder and general shoddiness of the London and Westminster forces but failed to produce revolutionary concepts in the reports. The 1828 committee, however, faced with an enormous increase in the crime rate as a result of rapid urbanization, began to reconsider many accepted ideas. It made specific proposals for reform which were implemented in Peel's Act of 1829. This resulted in Britain's first properly organized police system. Later reports on the metropolitan police forces (1833 and 1834) led to further consolidation and integration and the question of complete centralization of the force was examined and recommended by the 18377F 1338 Select Committee. -- Publisher's catalogue.

In the 1880s a Royal Commission was appointed to investigate the extent, nature and causes of industrial depression. The commission attempted to cover the entire range of British industry, dealing with separate trades and industries as integral parts of a whole. The reports and minutes of evidence present a comprehensive picture of the nation's economy from both the domestic and international points of view. Many of the problems investigated and points raised by the commission are as important today as they were in the eighteen eighties; tariff barriers, redundancy, prices and incomes, devaluation, quality of workmanship, the necessity for new markets. -- Publisher's catalogue.