Charlotte Wildman is Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Manchester, UK.

This highly impressive monograph by Charlotte Wildman provides a fresh perspective by focusing on the often neglected interwar period in Liverpool and Manchester … [There] is no doubt that the study makes an outstanding contribution to the field of urban history, which students and academics will find invaluable for many years to come.

• 1. Introduction: Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-19392. Chapter One: “Soaring Skyward”: Urban Regeneration 3. Chapter Two: Civic Week Celebrations4. Chapter Three: “For Profit or Pleasure”: New Cultures of Retail, Shopping and Consumer Culture5. Chapter Four: Performing Fashionable Selfhoods in the Transformed City6. Chapter Five: Gender, Religious Selfhoods and the City7. Chapter Six: The Cathedral That Never Was? 8. Conclusion: The Second World War and the Challenge to Interwar Urban CultureBibliographyIndex

Charlotte Wildman is Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Manchester, UK.

This highly impressive monograph by Charlotte Wildman provides a fresh perspective by focusing on the often neglected interwar period in Liverpool and Manchester … [There] is no doubt that the study makes an outstanding contribution to the field of urban history, which students and academics will find invaluable for many years to come.

• 1. Introduction: Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-19392. Chapter One: “Soaring Skyward”: Urban Regeneration 3. Chapter Two: Civic Week Celebrations4. Chapter Three: “For Profit or Pleasure”: New Cultures of Retail, Shopping and Consumer Culture5. Chapter Four: Performing Fashionable Selfhoods in the Transformed City6. Chapter Five: Gender, Religious Selfhoods and the City7. Chapter Six: The Cathedral That Never Was? 8. Conclusion: The Second World War and the Challenge to Interwar Urban CultureBibliographyIndex

Charlotte Wildman is Lecturer in Modern British History, University of Manchester, UK.

This highly impressive monograph by Charlotte Wildman provides a fresh perspective by focusing on the often neglected interwar period in Liverpool and Manchester … [There] is no doubt that the study makes an outstanding contribution to the field of urban history, which students and academics will find invaluable for many years to come.

• 1. Introduction: Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-19392. Chapter One: “Soaring Skyward”: Urban Regeneration 3. Chapter Two: Civic Week Celebrations4. Chapter Three: “For Profit or Pleasure”: New Cultures of Retail, Shopping and Consumer Culture5. Chapter Four: Performing Fashionable Selfhoods in the Transformed City6. Chapter Five: Gender, Religious Selfhoods and the City7. Chapter Six: The Cathedral That Never Was? 8. Conclusion: The Second World War and the Challenge to Interwar Urban CultureBibliographyIndex