Lancashire: A Social History, 1558-1939 |
Contents
Lancashire in the middle of the sixteenth century | 7 |
Economic change and population crisis 15581660 230 | 36 |
Religion and authority 15581660 | 55 |
Authority and conflict 16601770 | 84 |
The acceleration of economic growth 17701850 | 103 |
the changing distribution of power | 125 |
popular protest and workingclass organisation | 141 |
the Industrial Revolution and the Lancashire | 166 |
triumph and insecurity 18501914 | 198 |
property authority and culture | 221 |
From Chartism to Labourism? Workingclass attitudes and popular | 239 |
the Lancashire working class | 283 |
depression decline and adjustment | 325 |
some thoughts in conclusion | 355 |
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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 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 poor population poverty Preston prosperity Puritan radical reformers religious remained rise Rochdale Rossendale social south-east Lancashire spinners spinning St Helens sustained textile textile district thesis Tory trade union trend Univ urban Wadsworth and Mann wages Warrington weaving widespread Widnes Wigan women workers working-class