Book Reviews
In: Labour history review, Band 88, Heft 3, S. 279-293
ISSN: 1745-8188
In: Labour history review, Band 88, Heft 3, S. 279-293
ISSN: 1745-8188
In: Routledge Studies in Modern British History Ser.
In: Routledge studies in modern British history
This book is the first national study of the football pools in Britain which examines the politics and culture of the gambling on the football pools. It charts the rise of the football pools, focusing upon its rapid growth from the 1920s and its prolonged decline in British culture from the 1990s, partly as a result of the National Lottery. The book explores how this new gambling activity became a significant leisure opportunity for the working class - a way to feel that the individual skill of the punter could lead to the winning of some life-changing jackpot cheque being presented by a sporting personality of celebrity. Dominated by Littlewoods, and other large commercial companies, the weekly filling-in of the coupons was considered to be a safe form of investment, guaranteed by the integrity of the pool companies, rather than some seedy gambling operation. The Football Pools and the British Working Class looks at different elements of the football pools from what attracted people to this form of gambling to how the industry developed and adjusted to the suspension of the football fixtures in 1936, and the bad winter of 1962-3. Above all, it examines the deep hostility that surrounded the filling in of the football pools arising from the National Anti-Gambling League, religious groups, the football authorities and MPs. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of British football and 20th century British working class culture.
In: Labour history review, Band 87, Heft 3, S. 313-316
ISSN: 1745-8188
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
In: Labour history review, Band 86, Heft 3, S. 453-473
ISSN: 1745-8188
In: Labour history review, Band 86, Heft 2, S. 271-292
ISSN: 1745-8188
In: Routledge studies in modern British history
The Independent Labour Party and the Great War, 1914-1918 -- Should we stay or should we go? : the Independent Labour Party and its new role, 1918-1922 -- Clifford Allen, the 'Red Clydesiders' and socialism in our time, 1922-1928 -- Conflict with the Labour Party and the Labour government, and disaffiliation, c 1928-1932 : reasoned debate or emotional suicide? -- 'The ILP flea' : the rapid demise and factionalism of the Independent Labour Party in the early and mid-1930s -- A mass of contradictions? : internationals, communism, the Labour Party -- Voice s from the ranks, making the most of both moment and form : a distillation of the essence of the cultural and political life of ILP branches, federations, divisions, and their members, 1914-1939.
This book examines the rapid rise and slow decline of greyhound racing in Britain, focusing on the 1920s to the 1960s. It examines the way in which the middle classes sought to ban or control a sport and gambling opportunity which became a niche part of British working-class culture.
In: Labour history review, Band 84, Heft 2, S. 203-215
ISSN: 1745-8188
In: Labour: journal of Canadian labour studies = Le travail : revue d'études ouvrières Canadiennes, Band 82, Heft 1, S. 288-290
ISSN: 1911-4842
In: Labour: journal of Canadian labour studies = Le travail : revue d'études ouvrières Canadiennes, Band 81, Heft 1, S. 302-304
ISSN: 1911-4842
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
In: Routledge Library Editions: the Labour Movement Ser v.24
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
In: Routledge studies in modern British history