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Issue 1
1-5
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
The General Strike in Manchester
6-10
RON BEAN
The General Strike on Merseyside
11-15
NEVILLE KIRK
The Decline of Chartism in South-East and North-East Cheshire 1850-1870
16-18
I. PROTHERO
Chartism in the North West
Issue 2
1-15
NIGEL TODD
Labour in North Lancashire: Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness, c.1890-1911
17-21
J.P.H. CARTER
Contributions, Badges and the Liverpool Carters
22
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
E.L. Taplin, Liverpool Dockers and Seamen, 1870-1890
Issue3
1-5
ANGELA JOHN
The Lancashire Pit Brow Lasses and the campaign to remove women from
surface labour
7-11
ANDREW BULLEN
The Calling of the 1932 Cotton Strike
10-16
ERIC TAPLIN
The Liverpool Trades' Council 1880-1914
17-24
JOHN SMETHURST
The Manchester Banner Makers
29-31
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Trade Union Emblems
Issue 4
6-35
A.J. AINSWORTH
Aspects of socialism at branch level 1890-1900: some notes towards analysis
36-62
ALAN FOWLER
Lancashire and New Liberalism
63-91
S. CARTER
The ILP in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1893-1900
92-129
J. McHUGH
The Belfast Labour Dispute and Riot of 1907
130-140
E. CONWAY
Teaching Labour History - towards a theme
141-142
JOHN SMETHURST
Alan Fowler, A Short History of the Lancashire Packing Case Makers
143-145
NEVILLE KIRK
E & R Frow, To Make that Future Now!
Issue 5
1-10
ANDREW BULLEN
Watching and Besetting: the Burnley Police and the More Looms Disputes, 1931-1932
11-20
HOWARD WEINROTH
Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution. (Review article of John Foster's book)
25-31
N. REID
Manchester and Salford ILP: a more controversial aspect of the pre-1914 era
32-37
D. BATEMAN
The ILP between the Wars
38-44
A. LINKMAN
Manchester Studies Trade Union Project: Records of the Cotton Unions
Issue 6
2-14
R.S.W. DAVIES
The Liverpool Labour Party and the Liverpool Working Class, 1900-39
15-32
A. SHALLICE
Orange and Green and Militancy: Sectarianism and Working Class Politics in Liverpool, 1900-1914
33-42
R.M. JONES
The Liverpool Bread Riots, 1855
43-55
ALAN FOWLER
Trade Unions and Technical Change: The Automatic Loom Strike, 1908
56-57
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Jill Liddington and Jill Norris, One Hand Tied Behind Us - The Rise of the Women's Suffrage Movement
57-58
JOHN SMETHURST
Ruth and Edmond Frow, The Communist Party in Manchester, 1920-1926
Issue 7
4-16
JILL NORRIS
Women's History
17-39
JILL LIDDINGTON
Looking for Mrs. Cooper
41-48
ANGELA TUCKETT
Enid Stacey
49-64
KAREN HUNT
Women and the Social Democratic Federation: some notes on Lancashire
65-83
LINDA GRANT
Women's Work and Trade Unionism in Liverpool, 1890-1914
Issue 8
5-18
JOHN BELCHEM
English Working Class Radicalism and the Irish
19-28
A. SHALLICE
Liverpool Labourism and Irish Nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s
29-43
D. MORRIS
The Origins of the British Socialist Party
44-55
JEFFREY HILL
Social Democracy and the Labour Movement: the Social Democratic Federation in Lancashire
56-67
ALISTAIR MUTCH
Lancashire's 'Revolt in the Field': the Ormskirk Farmworkers' Strike of 1913
Issue 9
5-13
JILL NORRIS
Women's and Men's Unemployment in Macclesfield between the Wars
47-50
ERIC TAPLIN
P.J. Waller, Democracy and Sectarianism. A Political and Social History of Liverpool, 1868-1939
14-24
JOYCE WHITEHEAD
1911: The Great Unrest comes to Horwich
25-35
JIM GARNETT
My Autobiography
36-44
ERIC TAPLIN
Irish Leaders and the Liverpool Dockers: Richard McGhee and Edward McRugh
45-46
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
H.I.Dutton and J.E. King, Ten Per Cent and No Surrender: The Preston Strike, 1853-1854
46
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Benny Rothman, The 1932 Kinder Trespass
46-47
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Harry Schmidtgall, Frederick Engels' Manchester
47
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Trade Union Records of Greater Manchester: a Guide to their location
47
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Union of Construction Allied Trades and Technicians:: a Directory of Records in Greater Manchester and Surrounds
Issue 10
1-19
DAVID HOWELL
Was the Labour Party Inevitable?
20-30
DENIS PYE
Fellowship is Life: the Bolton Clarion Cycling Club and the Clarion Movement, 1894-1914
31-36
PAUL SALVESON
Getting back to the Land: the Daisy Colony Experiment
37-50
ALAN FOWLER
Labour and Liberalism in Textile Lancashire, 1910-1914
51-58
SETH SAGAR
Memoirs
64-65
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Jill Liddington, The Life and Times of a Respectable Rebel: Selina Cooper, 1864-1946
Issue 11
1-7
P. HOLDEN
True Story of a Lancashire Pit Brow Lass
11-24
JOHN SMETHURST
Portraits of 19th Century Lancashire Miners' Leaders: William Pickard, JP, 1821-1887; George Pickard, 1823-1900; Joseph Booth, 1834-1874; Robert Lewis, 1833-1880.
25-38
PAUL SALVESON
Songs from the Lancashire Seam
39-46
BOB DAVIES
The Strange Story (Recollections of a coal miner)
47-60
JAMES DRONSFIELD
Sketches of a Collier Life
61-64
'PATSY FILLIGAN'
The Coal Lockout (1893)
70
LOUIE DAVIES
What it was like in '26
71-83
ERIC JONES (with Margaret Jones and John King)
'It's our Fight too!' Solidarity and Support in Lancaster during the Miners' Strike 1984-85
84-86
NIKKI SAMMON
Bold Memories of '84. Bolton Clarion's ride round the Lancashire Pits, December 8th 1984
87-89
MARGE SHORT
One Woman's Story. An Agecroft Miner's wife
90-91
PAUL SALVESON
J.Banx (Ed.), Deep Digs. Cartoons of the Miner's Strike
91-92
PAUL SALVESON
Kenneth Wood, The Coal Pits of Chowbent
92-93
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Linda Mackenney (Ed.), Times of Strife. Joe Corrie: Plays, Poems and Theatre Writings
93-94
ANDY CROFT
H.Gustav Klaus, The Literature of Labour - 200 Years of Working Class Writings
94-95
RICK GWILT
Max Beer, A History of British Socialism
96
PAUL SALVESON
Brian Morgan, The Permanent Struggle: A History of Trade Unions and Politics
97-98
RICK GWILT
Bill Ebum. Be my Guest
98
ZOE MUNBY
Angela John, Coalmining Women
99
DENIS PYE
Teddy Ashton's Lancashire Scrapbook: Selections from Allen Clarke
99-100
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Allen Clarke, The Effects of the Factory System
Issue 12
1-2
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Jill Norris - Some Memories
3-15
MARY KIRRANE
Early Women Office Workers
17-23
JOYCE WHITEHEAD
No Place for a Lady: How the Unions tried to keep women out of office - a case study of Alice Foley
24-48
MANCHESTER WOMEN'S HISTORY GROUP
Ideology in Bricks and Mortar: Women's Housing in Manchester Between the Wars
49-52
HANNAH MITCHELL ('DAISY NOOK')
The Writings of 'Daisy Nook'
53-56
ETHEL CARNIE HOLDSWORTH
Old Man (A short story introduced by Ruth and Edmond Frow)
57-68
GATEHOUSE PROJECT
Community Writing and Publishing
69-73
EILEEN HORNBY
A Shopworker's Success
74-78
MARGE SHORT
Fighting on. Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures
79-86
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
An Independent Voice. Lisbeth Simm and Women's Labour Representation in the North West, 1906-14
87-91
CRAIG MACAULEY
The Suffragettes in Lancaster: a classroom study
92-94
MARIJ VAN HELMOND
A House for Women's History: Possibilities and Problems
95-96
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
Women and Labour Party Organisation, Past and Present
98-99
ERIC TAPLIN
Merseyside Museum of Labour History
100-103
MOSES GATER
Bill Spriggs goes back in time
105-109
MIKE ALLEN
Eric Taplin, The Dockers' Union. A Study of the National Union of Dock Labourers, 1889-1922
109-111
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Silk Town: Industry and Culture in Macclesfield 1750-1835
Issue 13
2
ERIC TAPLIN
Origins of the NW Labour History Group and the role of Ruth and Eddie Frow
3-12
JOYCE WHITEHEAD
Ruth Frow interviewed
13-23
ALAIN KAHAN
The Working Class Movement Library - Once Removed
24-38
ALLEN CLARKE
Two short stories on the Half-time system: Killed by Kindness and Not Passed
39-45
JOHN SAVILLE
The Hunger Marches of the Nineteen Thirties: Some Random Comments
46-61
KEVIN MORGAN
Eddie Frow and Engineering Struggles
62-66
ROYSTON FUTTER
A New Role for the Crescent
67-74
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Trades Unionism in the 1860s
75-76
NADER FEKRI (with Jill Lewis)
H.Gustav Klaus (Ed.), The Rise of Socialist Fiction, 1880-1914
Issue 14
1-13
ADRIAN MELLOR
Whose Heritage?
13-20
VALERIE BURTON
Jack Afloat and Jack Ashore. The work and community of seafarers in the late Nineteenth Century
21-30
TONY WAILEY
The Other Stormy Passage. Liverpool Seamen and their union
31-39
EDITH DEWER
Women's Work on the waterfront, 1916-1987
40-47
ERIC TAPLIN
Foundation and Early Struggles: Trade Unionism among seamen and dockers, 1887-1914
48-51
JERRY DAWSON
George Garrett: Man and Writer
52-57
GEORGE GARRETT
Forecastle Justice
58-59
ERIC TAPLIN
Desmond Greaves: an Appreciation
60
MICHAEL HERBERT
Record review of 'Silvertown', The men they couldn't hang
61-62
MICHAEL HERBERT
H.H.Champion, The Great Dock Strike
62-63
MICHAEL HERBERT
Edmund and Ruth Frow, The Politics of Hope: the Origins of Socialism in Britain, 1880-1914
63-64
MICHAEL HERBERT
Christine Collette, For Labour and for Women: the Women's Labour League, 1906-1918
64-65
MICHAEL HERBERT
Shirley Baker, Street Photographs, Manchester and Salford
65
MICHAEL HERBERT
Mrs Broom's Suffragette Photographs
66-67
JOHN SMETHURST
Roy Whitfield, Engels in Manchester: the search for a shadow
68-69
JOHN SMETHURST
Bernard Dix and Stephen Williams, Serving the Public, Building the Union. The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Vol.1, The Forerunners, 1889-1928
70-71
BERNADETTE HYLAND
Margaret Mulvihill, Charlotte Despard
Issue 15
9-12
JACK JONES
Speech at the opening of the National Museum of Labour History, 7 May 1990
13-15
NICK MANSFIELD
National Museum of Labour History: Past, Present and Future
16-25
MYRA TRUSTRAM
Which History? Whose History?
26-30
STEPHEN BIRD
The Tools of the Trade
32-36
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
An Outline History of the Mechanics' Institute
37-50
ALAN BOOTH
Politics, Protest and the People of the North West in the Age of the French Revolution
51-58
FRANK McMANUS
Cotton and Slavery in Todmorden and North East Lancashire, 1861-64
59-66
J. DUNLEAVY
The Irish Dimension of the British Labour Movement, 1886-1929
67-69
DEREK FOY
He Delivered the Goods. A brief history of the Liverpool carter
70-74
TREVOR PRITCHARD
Manchester Railway Workers in the General Strike
75-80
JACK JACKSON
Witness to an Execution
82-96
MIKE ALLEN
Post-war Dock Strikes 1945-1955
97-98
HAROLD HIKINS
Jerry Dawson - obituary
99
BERNADETTE HYLAND
Ruth and Edmund Frow (Eds.), Political Women 1800-1850
100
BERNADETTE HYLAND
Margaret Ward, 'Maud Gonne'
101
CAROL MAYO
Pat Ayers, The Liverpool Docklands: Life and Work in Athol Street
101-103
CAROL MAYO
Stephen Kelly, Idle Hands, Clenched Fists
103-104
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Carolyn Steedman, Childhood, Culture and Class in Britain: Margaret McMillan, 1860-1931
103-104
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Elizabeth Bradburn, Margaret McMillan, Portrait of a Pioneer
105
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Janet Todd (Ed.), A Wollstonecraft Anthology
105-106
HELEN STRANGRET
Linda Mahood, The Magdalenes: Prostitution in the Nineteenth Century
106-107
JOHN SMETHURST
Stan Newens, Working together: A Short History of the London Co-op Society Political Committee
Issue 16
8-13
PETER BERRESFORD ELLIS
What kind of History does the Irish Community need
14-25
FRANK NEAL
English-Irish Conflict in the North West of England: Economics, Racism, Anti- Catholic or Simple Xenophobia?
26-35
COLIN POOLEY
Irish Settlement in North West England in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: a Geographical Critique
36-41
PAT DUFFY
Carrying the Hod: Irish Immigrant Labour in the Manchester Building Trades
42-51
TOM REDMOND (with James McGill)
The Story of the Manchester Martyrs
42-51
JAMES McGILL (with Tom Redmond)
The Story of the Manchester Martyrs
52-55
BERNADETTE HYLAND
Eva Gore-Booth: An Irish woman in Manchester
56-60
J. DUNLEAVY
The Manchester Irish National Convention 1918
61-63
HUGH LEE
Our Efforts in Great Britain
64-72
PATRICK DOYLE
Accommodation or Confrontation? Catholic Response to the Formation of the Labour Party
73-77
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
So Utterly Forgotten: Irish Prisoners and the 1924 Labour Government
78-85
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
The Irish Collection in the Working Class Movement Library
86-93
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Biographies of Irish Chartists
96-98
BERNADETTE HYLAND
Sheila Rowbotham, The Past is Before Us; Angela Neustatter, Hyenas in Petticoats; Michelene Wandor, Once a Feminist; Sara Maitland (Ed.), Very Heaven; Joan Scanlon (Ed.), Surviving the Blues;
98-100
MICHAEL O'RIABHAIGH
Frank Neal, Sectarian Violence, the Liverpool Experience: an Aspect of Anglo-Irish History
100-101
SABINE MOSNER
Pat Hudson and W.R. Lee (Eds.), Women's Work and the Family Economy in Historical Perspective
101-102
LEN BUTLER
Tony Benn, Against the Tide: Diaries 1973-76
102-103
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
William St.Clair, The Godwins and the Shelleys: the Biography of a Family
103-104
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Dorothy Thompson, Queen Victoria: Gender and Power
104-105
HARRIET GRIMSHAW
Eva Figes, Sex and Subterfuge: Women Writers to 1850
105-106
GARY DURKIN
John Callaghan, Socialism in Britain since 1884
106
CAROL MAYO
Derek Whale, Bygone Merseyside
107-108
NICK MANSFIELD
Lyn Martin, Popular Leisure in the Lake Counties
108-109
STEVE RANDALL
Brian Simon (Ed.), The Search for Enlightenment
109-110
STEVE RANDALL
Mike Squires, Saklatvala - a Political Biography
110-112
LINDA SEVER
Richard Kearney (Ed.), Migrations: the Irish at Home and Abroad
113
MICHAEL HERBERT
Raymond Challinor, A Radical Lawyer in Victorian England: W.P. Roberts and the Struggle for Workers' Rights
114
MICHAEL HERBERT
Gary Cross (Ed.), Worktowners at Blackpool: Mass Observation and Popular Leisure in the 1930s
114-115
KAREN HUNT
Anne Smith, Women Remember: an Oral History
115-117
KAREN HUNT
Sybil Oldfield, Women Against the Iron Fist: Alternatives to Militarism 1900-1989
Issue 17
10-13
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Shelley and the Owenites
14-23
DENIS PYE
Charlie Reekie's Dream: The Manchester Clarion Clubhouses 1897-1951
24-32
JO STANLEY
Working Women in North West Drama
33-37
MICHAEL NALLY
'The Dear Old Perisher' - The Clarion Newspaper 1891-1935
38-51
FRANK ALLAUN
Culture and Politics in the Hungry Thirties
52-65
JIM CLAYSON
Some Chartist Poetry of North West England
66-75
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
The Workers' Theatre Movement in Manchester and Salford, 1931-1940
75-86
JOHN DAVIES
Women and Work in Liverpool: An Oral History
87-88
JIM CLAYSON
Keir Hardiels Evening Prayer
87-88
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Keir Hardie's Evening Prayer
89-94
BEVERLEY BUTLER (with Kevin Littlewood)
Labour History Memorabilia
95-102
LIZ STANLEY
The Economics of Everyday Life: A Mass Observation Project in Bolton
103-109
DOROTHY SHERIDAN
The Mass Observation Archive: A Personal Note
110-112
BERNADETTE HYLAND
A Tale of Two Centres
113-119
WENDY FOULGER
A Woman's Place was in her Union
120-122
STEVE RANDALL
Kath Locke
123-124
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
Ruth Brandon, The New Women and the Old Men: Love., Sex and the Woman Question H.G. Wells, The Passionate Friends Norman and Jeanne Mackenzie. The Life of H.G.Wells: the Time Traveller
124-125
DEREK FOY
Irene Birch, My Kirkby Childhood
125-127
CAROLINE BENN
Jonathan Schneer, George Lansbury
127-128
PAUL COSGROVE
Joseph White, Tom Mann
128-129
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Chushichi Tsuzuki, Tom Mann 1856-1941: The Challenge of Labour
129-130
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Brian Filling and Susan Stuart (Eds.), The End of a Regime? An Anthology: Scottish-South African Writing against Apartheid
130
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
Jules Townsend, J.A. Hobson
130-131
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
Elizabeth Spellman, Inessential Women: Problems of exclusion in Feminist Thought
131
CHRISTINE COLLETTE
Alan McKinlay and R.J. Morris, The ILP on Glydeside 1893-1932: From Foundation to Disintegration
131-132
MICHAEL TOWERS
Noel Whiteside, Bad Times: Unemployment in British Social and Political History
132-133
LEN BUTLER
Tony Benn, Conflicts of Interest: Diaries 1977-80
133-134
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Reg Cordwell, A Salford Family Chronicle
134-135
ALAN FOWLER
R.S.Fitton, The Arkwrights, Spinners of Fortune
135-136
EILEEN MURPHY
Colin Chambers, The Story of Unity Theatre
136-137
PAUL DIXON
Austen Morgan, Labour and Partition the Belfast Working Class 1905-23
137-138
SU ANDI
Ben Bousquet and Colin Douglas, West Indian Women at War
138-140
GARY DURKIN
John Harding, For the Good of the Game: The Official History of the Professional Footballers' Association
140
MICHAEL HERBERT
Jack Simmons, The Victorian Railway
141
MICHAEL HERBERT
Geoff Nicholson, Big Noises - Rock Guitar in the 1990s
141-142
MICHAEL HERBERT
Michael Rosen and David Widgery, The Chatto Book of Dissent
142-143
JOHN J. O'DOWD
Eric Hopkins, The Rise and Decline of the English Working Class 1918-1990
143-144
JOHN J. O'DOWD
Kathleen Jones, The Making of Social Policy in Britain 1830-1990
144-145
RICK GWILT
Brian Maidment. The Poorhouse Fugitives: Self-taught Poets and Poetry in Victorian Britain
Issue 18
3-4
PETER DEME
On Labour History in Hungary Today
5-9
RIENK DE JONG
Collecting and Preserving Trade Union History in the Netherlands
10-18
SUZANNE SCHINDLER (with Martin Duspohl)
No Future for History? On the Work of History in Berlin before and after the Political Upheaval
19-20
PONTUS BLOMSTER
The Foundation of the Central Museum of Labour, Finland
21-26
SOLVEIG HOLLARI
History has got a voice: an oral history project in Sweden
27-43
HANNA BEHREND
A Political Refugee in Manchester
44-48
IAN M. WALLAGE
James Hindle Watson - the Eccles 'Conshi'
49-51
FRANK ELDER
Conscientious Objectors on the road
52-54
BERNARD ROTHMAN
The Mosley Rally, King's Hall, Belle Vue, February 1933
55-57
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Preston Remembers
58
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Turbulent Times in Stalybridge
59-64
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
The Round House in Ancoats
65-68
NICK MANSFIELD
National Museum of Labour History and its new home
69-71
LORAINE KNOWLES
The Museum of Liverpool Life incorporating Merseyside Museum of Labour History
76-78
DAVE HARKER
James Vernon, Politics and the People: A Study in English Political Culture. c.1815-1867
78-79
DAVE HARKER
Roger Hutchinson, Roger Hutchinson High Sixties: the Summers of Riot and Love
80--81
TERRY WYKE
John Griffiths, The third Man. The life and times of William Murdoch 1754-1839. The Inventor Of Gas Lighting
82-83
KAREN HUNT
Barbara Gaine, Victorian Feminists
84-85
CAROLINE BENN
Ben Pimlott, Harold Wilson
86
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Tim Latham, The Ashburner Schooners: The Story of the first Shipbuilders of Barrow-in-Furness
86-87
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
Ernie Trory, Cradled into Poetry: The Life and Times of Perey Bysshe Shelley
87-88
EDMUND AND RUTH FROW
J.R.Dinwiddy, Radicalism and Reform in Britain, 1780-1850
88