Currents of Radicalism: Popular Radicalism, Organised Labour and Party Politics in Britain 1850-1914

Abstract

Preface 1. Currents of radicalism, 1850-1914 Eugenio F. Biagini and Alastair J. Reid Part I. Continuities in Popular Radicalism: 2. The old radicalism and the new: David Urquhart and the politics of opposition, 1832-1867 Miles Taylor 3. Radicalism and popular culture: the Tichborne case and the politics of 'fair play', 1867-1886 Rohan McWilliam 4. Popular politics and the limitations of party: Wolverhampton, 1867-1900 Jon Lawrence 5. Nonconformity and trade unionism: the Sheffield outrages of 1866 Kenneth D. Brown Part II. The Liberal Party and the People: 6. Trade unionists, Gladstonian Liberals, and the labour law reforms of 1875 Jonathan Spain 7. Popular Liberals, Gladstonian finance, and the debate on taxation, 1860-1874 Eugenio F. Biagini 8. Gladstone and his rivals: popular Liberal perceptions of the party leadership in the political crisis of 1885-1886 Graham D. Goodlad Part III. Radicals, Liberals, and the Labour Party: 9. Labour and parliament: the Lib.-Labs. as the first working-class MPs, 1885-1906 John Shepherd 10. Old Unionism reconsidered: the radicalism of Robert Knight, 1870-1900 Alastair J. Reid 11. Labour and local politics: radicalism, democracy and the social reform, 1880-1914 Pat Thane 12. Ideological debate in Edwardian Labour politics: radicalism, Revisionism and socialism Duncan Tanner Index.