History of Sheffield

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 161. Chapters: Hillsborough disaster, Henry Bessemer, Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation, Rate-capping rebellion, Charles Peace, Timeline of Sheffield history, History of Sheffield Wednesday F.C., Sheffield Tramway, Sir John Fowler, 1st Baronet, Sheffield Castle, James Montgomery, Hallamshire, Malin Bridge, Ebenezer Elliott, River Rivelin, Francis Leggatt Chantrey, Sheffield and Rotherham Railway, George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, Sheffield district rail rationalisation plan of the 1960s, Owlerton, Wadsley, Sheffield Cathedral, Loxley, South Yorkshire, David Mushet, Crosspool, Carl Wark, Sheffield Canal, Shire Brook, Vickers Limited, Middlewood, South Yorkshire, Spence Broughton, Robert Forester Mushet, Low Bradfield, Neepsend, Battle of Bramall Lane, Church of St Nicholas, Bradfield, Oughtibridge, Paradise Square, Worrall, Taylor's Eye Witness Works, Wadsley Parish Church, Wadsley Bridge, St Matthew's Church, Sheffield, Barker's Pool, Endcliffe Hall, Dore, Ecclesfield Priory, Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, St Vincent's Church, Sheffield, Victoria Hall, Sheffield, Sheffield Manor, Cornish Place, Sheffield Blitz, Hillsborough House, National Centre for Popular Music, Harry Brearley, Hallamshire Battalion, The Mount, Sheffield, St Mary's Church, Bolsterstone, St James' Church, Midhopestones, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, John Arthur Roebuck, Church of St. Mary, Ecclesfield, Sheffield plate, Whitley Hall, Beehive Works, Green Lane Works, Roger de Busli, Mount Pleasant, Sheffield, Globe Works, Leah's Yard, Wicker, George Hadfield, Dragon of Wantley, St Paul's Church, Wordsworth Avenue, Onesacre Hall, Hillsborough Trinity Methodist Church, Sheffield Improvement Act 1818, Sheffield City Battalion, Little Matlock Rolling Mill, St Paul's Church, Sheffield, Liquorice allsorts, Sheffield United Gas Light Company Offices, Fair House Farmhouse, Henry George Ward, John Parker, Loxley House, Sheffield Rally, Hallfield House, Sheffield Outrages, Sheffield Co-operative Society, Sheffield Neepsend by-election, 1950, Tapton Hall, Benjamin Huntsman, Wincobank, J Preston Limited, King Edward VII Orthopaedic Hospital, Sheffield, Roman Rig, Great Sheffield Flood, Cementation furnace, Sheffield, William Herbert Hatfield, Burrowlee House, Old Queen's Head, Sheffield, Thomas Boulsover, People's Republic of South Yorkshire, Little mester, Shire Brook Valley Local Nature Reserve, Christopher Webb, Sheffield District Railway, Myrtle Road, Highfield, Adelphi Hotel, Sheaf House, John Walsh, Sheffield Amalgamated Union of File Trades, Stocksbridge Railway Act 1874, Sheffield and Rotherham Constabulary. Excerpt: The rate-capping rebellion was a campaign within English local councils in 1985 which aimed to force the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher to withdraw powers to restrict the spending of councils. The affected councils were almost all run by left-wing Labour Party leaderships. The campaign's tactic was that councils whose budgets were restricted would refuse to set any budget at all for the financial year 1985-86, requiring the Government to intervene directly in providing local services, or to concede. However, all 15 councils which initially refused to set a rate eventually did so, and the campaign failed to change Government policy. Powers to restrict council budgets have remained in place ever since. Rising local government spending had long been a concern of central government, but direct powers to limit indiv.

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