Governing Risks in Modern Britain

Tom Crook is Lecturer in Modern British History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published a number of edited collections, including (with Glen O’Hara) Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000 (2011). He is currently completing a study of modernity and the governance of public health in Victorian and Edwardian England.Mike Esbester is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. His research focuses on the history of risk, safety and accident prevention in modern Britain, and has been funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health. He co-edited the April 2015 issue of Technology & Culture, on the international history of road safety.

• 1. Introduction - Risk and the History of Governing Modern Britain, c. 1800–2000 by Tom Crook and Mike Esbester. - PART I: EARLY RISK SOCIETIES. - 2. Risk, Prevention and Policing, c. 1750–1850 by Francis Dodsworth. - 3. Rethinking the History of the Risk Society: Accident Reporting, the Social Order and the London Daily Press during the Early Nineteenth Century by Ryan Vieira. - PART II: ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS. - 4. Artificial Britain: Risk, Systems and Synthetics since 1800 by Chris Otter. - 5. Danger in the Drains: Sewer Gas, Sewerage Systems and the Home, 1850–1900 by Tom Crook. - 6. Public Health and Public Safety: Disinfection, Carbolic and the Plurality of Risk, 1870–1914 by Rebecca Whyte. - 7. Risk, Time and Everyday Environmentalism in Modern Britain by Timothy Cooper. - PART III: MOBILITY AND LEISURE RISKS. - 8. Drunk Driving, Drink Driving: Britain, c. 1800–1920 by Bill Luckin. - 9. Risk on the Roads: Police, Motor Traffic and the Management of Space, c. 1900–1950 by Chris A. Williams. - 10. ‘Maximum Supervision’: Risk, Danger and Public Water in Post-War Britain by Glen O’Hara. - PART IV: OCCUPATIONAL RISKS. - 11. Risk, Responsibility and Robens: The Transformation of the British System of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation, 1961–1974 by Christopher Sirrs. - 12. Il/legitimate Risks? Occupational Health and Safety and the Public in Britain, c. 1960–2015 by Paul Almond and Mike Esbester. - 13. Conclusion: Governing Risks in Britain and Beyond by Arwen P. Mohun, Thomas Le Roux, Tom Crook and Mike Esbester