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SUMMARY:Whitehall and the problem of public service in nineteenth-century 
 institutional reform - Ian Cawood\, University of Stirling
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CONTACT:Amy Erickson
DESCRIPTION:The historiography of nineteenth public service reform has bee
 n\, and still is\, dominated by scholarly and professional focus on the ba
 ttles within Whitehall to reform the behaviour of senior officials. This h
 as led to an over-concentration on the 1854 Treasury Report on the Organis
 ation of the Permanent Civil Service\,  usually referred to as the "Northc
 ote-Trevelyan Report"\, and much over-exaggeration as to its immediate eff
 ects and cultural significance. This paper will attempt to place the 1854 
 Report within its social and cultural context and to contend that a genuin
 e public service ethos emerged endogenously from within the branches of pr
 ovincial administration in the years after 1832 and that the 1854 Report w
 as an attempt to restrain and reformulate this ethos to suit the needs of 
 the elite classes of Britain rather than the common needs of the British p
 ublic.
LOCATION:History Faculty Room 6\, and online via zoom (for login details s
 ign up to ucam-ecosochist@lists.cam.ac.uk)
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