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The related developments of the rise of the Labour Party and the decline of the Liberal Party have been subjected to considerable scrutiny by historians of modern Britain. Their work has, however, had the effect of stimulating new controversies rather than of establishing a consensus view as to the reasons for this fundamental change in British political life.

The different elements which came together to form the Labour Representation Committee in February 1900 were, when it came to party organisation, at once its strength and its weakness. Labour was not in the position of a totally new political party having to build up a political machine from scratch, rather the LRC was able to utilise and build upon existing organisations: these were the Independent Labour Party, the Fabian Society, those trade unions which supported the LRC, and trades councils throughout the country (the Social Democratic Federation disaffiliated from the LRC after little more than a year's membership). At both a local and a national level, however, these organisations were often hostile to each other, jealous of their independence and suspicious of attempts by the LRC Executive to control them.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Section 1: Regional Studies -- 1. The ILP in the North East of England -- 2. The ILP in Lancashire and the North West -- 3. The ILP and the Scottish National Question -- 4. Breaking Moulds: The Leicester ILP and Popular Politics -- Section IT: Local Study- Bradford -- 1. Late Victorian and Edwardian Bradford -- 2. The Manningham Mills Strike, December 1890 to April1891 -- 3. The Bradford ILP and Trade Unionism c.1890-1914 -- 4. War and Socialism: the Experience of the Bradford ILP 1914-18 -- Section III: Issues and Subjects -- 1. 'A Call to Arms': the Struggle for Socialist Unity in Britain, 1883-1914 -- 2. Women and the ILP, 1890-1914 -- 3. 'Trailed on the tail of a comet': the Yorkshire Miners and the ILP, 1885-1908 -- 4. Religion and the ILP -- 5. The ILP and Education: the Bradford Charter -- 6. The ILP and the Second International: the Early Years, 1893-1905 -- Section IV: Review of Literature and Records -- 1. Recent Writing on the History of the ILP, 1893-1932 -- 2. Researching the History of the ILP -- 3. The ILP: a Century for Socialism -- Index