Lancashire: A Social History, 1558-1939

agricultural Barker and Harris became Blackburn Bolton Burnley Catholic cent centres changes Chapter Chartist Cheshire Church Church of England coal cotton district Cotton Famine cotton industry cotton towns Cotton Trade cultural decline depression despite dominated Earls of Derby early economic Edwardian eighteenth century élite employers employment England especially evidence exports factory families Farnie firms gentry growth Haigh hand-loom weavers History housing important improvement increased increasingly Industrial Revolution influence Irish labour Lancashire and Cheshire Lancashire's Lancaster landed large numbers late Victorian less Liberals limited Liverpool living standards Manchester Manchester's manufacturing markets merchants Merseyside mid-century mid-Victorian middle class municipal nineteenth century Oldham organisation political population Preston prosperity Puritan radical reform religious remained rise Rochdale Rossendale social south-east Lancashire spinners spinning St Helens sustained textile textile district textile industries thesis Tory trade union trend Univ urban Wadsworth and Mann wages Warrington weaving widespread Widnes Wigan women workers working-class