Abstract
The London County Council played a key role in celebrating the historical inheritance of the metropolis under the Progressive leadership between 1889 and 1907. It notably invested in commemoration schemes and claimed control of historic monuments by the agency of local government. Such institutional efforts should be situated in the context of metropolitan politics where, confronted by the Conservative claim for municipal devolution, Progressive intellectuals such as George Laurence Gomme drew upon historical and topographical sources in order to defend their collectivist vision of community and government and give grounds for the progress of the local institution and the urban fabric of London.
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