Jeffrey Hill is Emeritus Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, where from 2001 until 2007 he was Director of the International Centre for Sport, History and Culture. He has previously worked at Nottingham Trent University, and has been a visiting professor at both the University of British Columbia and Columbus State University, Georgia, USA. His research has concentrated chiefly on the politics and leisure activities of working-class society in Britain during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Contents: Lancashire and the North West – The Lancashire Miners, Thomas Greenall and the Labour Party, 1900-1906 – Social Democracy and the Labour Movement: the Social-Democratic Federation in Lancashire – Manchester and Salford Politics and the Early Development of the Independent Labour Party – Lib-Labism, Socialism and Labour in Burnley, c. 1890-1918 – Politics, Gender, and ‘New’ Toryism: Lancashire in the 1920s – Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Interwar Years – A Hero in the Text: Race, Class and Gender Narratives in the Life of Learie Constantine – Rite of Spring: Cup Finals and Community in the North of England – Howard Jacobson’s The Mighty Walzer and Manchester.

Jeffrey Hill is Emeritus Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, where from 2001 until 2007 he was Director of the International Centre for Sport, History and Culture. He has previously worked at Nottingham Trent University, and has been a visiting professor at both the University of British Columbia and Columbus State University, Georgia, USA. His research has concentrated chiefly on the politics and leisure activities of working-class society in Britain during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Contents: Lancashire and the North West – The Lancashire Miners, Thomas Greenall and the Labour Party, 1900-1906 – Social Democracy and the Labour Movement: the Social-Democratic Federation in Lancashire – Manchester and Salford Politics and the Early Development of the Independent Labour Party – Lib-Labism, Socialism and Labour in Burnley, c. 1890-1918 – Politics, Gender, and ‘New’ Toryism: Lancashire in the 1920s – Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Interwar Years – A Hero in the Text: Race, Class and Gender Narratives in the Life of Learie Constantine – Rite of Spring: Cup Finals and Community in the North of England – Howard Jacobson’s The Mighty Walzer and Manchester.

Jeffrey Hill is Emeritus Professor of Historical and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester, where from 2001 until 2007 he was Director of the International Centre for Sport, History and Culture. He has previously worked at Nottingham Trent University, and has been a visiting professor at both the University of British Columbia and Columbus State University, Georgia, USA. His research has concentrated chiefly on the politics and leisure activities of working-class society in Britain during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

• Contents: Lancashire and the North West – The Lancashire Miners, Thomas Greenall and the Labour Party, 1900-1906 – Social Democracy and the Labour Movement: the Social-Democratic Federation in Lancashire – Manchester and Salford Politics and the Early Development of the Independent Labour Party – Lib-Labism, Socialism and Labour in Burnley, c. 1890-1918 – Politics, Gender, and ‘New’ Toryism: Lancashire in the 1920s – Cricket and the Imperial Connection: Overseas Players in Lancashire in the Interwar Years – A Hero in the Text: Race, Class and Gender Narratives in the Life of Learie Constantine – Rite of Spring: Cup Finals and Community in the North of England – Howard Jacobson’s The Mighty Walzer and Manchester.