Contents: Lancashire and the North West – The Lancashire Miners, Thomas Greenall and the Labour Party, 1900-1906 – Social Democracy and the Labour Movement: the Social-Democratic Federation in Lancashire – Manchester and Salford Politics and the Early Development of the Independent Labour Party – Lib-Labism, Socialism and Labour in Burnley, c. 1890-1918 – Politics, Gender, and ‘New’ Toryism: Lancashire in the 1920s – Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Interwar Years – A Hero in the Text: Race, Class and Gender Narratives in the Life of Learie Constantine – Rite of Spring: Cup Finals and Community in the North of England – Howard Jacobson’s
The Mighty Walzer
and Manchester.