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The Guild of Help was formed at Bradford in 1904 with the idea of introducing a new, more community-based, approach to deal with the increasingly important problem of poverty. It emerged to overcome the failures of charity and the threat of increased state intervention, seeking instead to get all the community to take responsibility for the poor. The movement spread rapidly and soon became a major constituent of voluntary urban relief in Britain. Yet, in the end, its community approach failed, largely because solving the problem of poverty was well beyond its means, and intent, but also because it was unable to draw the churches, the working classes and charities into working with the well-regulated system of help for the poor which it envisaged.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Editors and Contributors -- Chapter 1 'A Divine Discontent with Wrong': The People's Martyrology -- Theology -- History -- Philology -- Sociology -- Chapter 2 The Making of the Peterloo Martyrs, 1819 to the Present -- The Aftermath of Peterloo -- The Peterloo Martyrs in the Long Nineteenth Century -- The Demonology of Peterloo -- Controversy and Commemoration -- Chapter 3 From 'Dorchester Labourers' to 'Tolpuddle Martyrs': Celebrating Radicalism in the English Countryside -- The Making of the Martyrs -- Interpretation and Appropriation -- Place and Heritage -- Conclusions -- Chapter 4 The Featherstone Massacre and Its Forgotten Martyrs -- The Shootings -- Interpretation: Innocence and Blame -- Blame and Interpretation: Holiday -- Blame and Interpretation: Asquith -- A Forgotten Interpretation: Featherstone the Harmonious -- That Is What the Bosses Do to the Workers: 'They Shoot Them' -- Commemoration -- Conclusion: Martyrs Remembered and Forgotten -- Chapter 5 Tonypandy 1910: The Foundations of Welsh Social Democracy -- The Martyr: John Hopla -- Making the Politics of Dissent -- We Live? -- Chapter 6 Emily Davison: Dying for the Vote -- Channelling Medievalism -- Recovering Militancy -- Envisioning the Sacred -- Martyrs for the Cause -- In Retrospect -- Chapter 7 Making Irish Martyrs: The Impact and Legacy of the Execution of the Leaders of the Easter Rising, 1916 -- The Revolutionary Ideology of Patrick Pearse -- The Easter Rising, 1916 and the Execution of its Leaders -- The Making of Political Martyrs -- The Quasi-Religious Dimension to 1916: Blood Sacrifice and Redemption -- The Hanging of Sir Roger Casement -- 'A Terrible Beauty is Born' -- The Memorialisation of 1916 After Independence -- Chapter 8 The Town that Was Murdered: Martyrs, Heroes and the Urbicide of Jarrow

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- TABLES AND FIGURES -- Dedication -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Chapter One THE RISE OF LABOUR AND THE DECLINE OF LIBERALISM: THE GENERAL PROBLEM AND WEST YORKSHIRE -- Chapter Two THE ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM AND INDEPENDENT LABOUR -- Chapter Three TRADE UNIONS AND THE INDEPENDENT LABOUR PARTY: THE GENESIS OF THE ILP IN WEST YORKSHIRE -- Chapter Four LIBERAL RESPONSES AND LABOUR DIFFICULTIES IN THE 1890S -- Chapter Five LABOUR RESURGENCE 1900-6 -- Chapter Six LIBERAL DECLINE AND LABOUR GROWTH 1906-14 -- Chapter Seven THE FIRST WORLD WAR -- CONCLUSION -- EPILOGUE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

"J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of the House of Commons 1921-28 presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926. In 1929-31 he toured India as chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Labour and was chairman of the BBC between 1930 and 1935. He was thus a vitally important political figure who was active at the rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism, involved in the Liberal reforms of the Edwardian age, and deeply concerned about industrial relations in early twentieth century Britain and beyond. This volume brings together leading academics and provides new information and analysis on the life, work and times of J.H. Whitley, offering a study of his career in British politics and society, focusing particularly on the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century."--Provided by publisher.

First published in 1984. This book is a detailed study of the way in which the growing Labour movement gradually ousted the Liberals in West Yorkshire between 1890 and 1924. It demonstrates the basis of old Liberalism and the strength of local non-conformity, and its powerful links with the textile and engineering industries. It shows how the Liberalism of this district was dominated by small groups of well-to-do leaders involved in these main industries. This study also shows the gradual breakdown of the political consensus established between the Liberal party and the working classes and explains how the increasing opposition to Liberalism was channelled into the socialist movement. In all, the authors present a thorough and extensive study of the political changes in a particularly interesting part of the British Isles.