
Popular Politics, Riot and Labour
Essays in Liverpool History 1790-1940
John Belchem(Editor)
Liverpool University Press
Published on 1. May 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-85323-427-2 (ISBN)
Description
Based on extensive new research, this volume of essays explores the contrast between Liverpool's contemporary image and its historical experience. The 'shock city' of post-industrial Britain, Liverpool is now identified by a self-defeating image, condemned to failure by a militant micro-culture of truculent defiance, collective solidarity and fatalist humour. Much of the image, however, is media myth, lacking in historical resonance before the city's recent economic decline. In contrast with its current projection, Liverpool's past is not well-known. Failing to conform to the main pattern and narrative of modem British history, the city has attracted little attention from historians other than as the exception which proved the rule. These essays seek to redress the balance, to reconstruct a distinctive Liverpool identity in a manner which belies media distortion or historiographical condescension. An exercise in new labour history, this volume illuminates, the complex social history of Liverpool popular politics.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85323-427-2 (9780853234272)
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Person
John Belchem, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Liverpool, is acknowledged as Liverpool's leading historian, whose many publications include editing the Liverpool 800 book, published on the city's 800th anniversary. He recently contributed to the Peterloo Massacre bicentenary programme.
Content
Introduction - the peculiarities of Liverpool, John Belchem; the growth of Liverpool, Michael Power; "This Whig and Tory ridden town" - popular politics in Liverpool in the Chartist era, Kevin Moore; Liverpool in the year of revolution - the political and associational culture of the Irish immigrant community in 1848, John Belchem; riotous Liverpool - 1815-1860, C.Anne Bryson; false dawn of new unionism? Labour unrest in Liverpool - 1871-1873, Eric Taplin; from militancy to social mission - the Salvation Army and street disturbances in Liverpool - 1879-1887, Norman H. Murdoch; more than one working class - Protestant-Catholic riots in Edwardian Liverpool - John Bohstedt; class, religion and gender - the Liverpool Labour Party and women - 1918-1939, R.S.W. Davies. Appendix - Liverpool Chartists - subscribers to the National Land Company - 1847-1848, Alan Little.