Victorian Bradford
Subtitle: essays in honour of Jack Reynolds
By: edited by D.G. Wright and J.A. Jowitz.
Contributors: Reynolds, Jack, 1915-; Wright, D. G.; Jowitt, J. A.
Publisher: City of Bradford Metropolitan Council, Libraries Division
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Bradford]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
Subjects: Bradford (West Yorkshire, England) -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / David Wright; value: The Bradford trade in the nineteenth century / Gary Firth; value: The pattern of religion in Victorian Bradford / Tony Jowitt; value: The strike of 1825 / Jonathan Smith; value: The treatment of poverty / David Ashworth; value: Social structure in the mid-nineteenth century / Adrian Elliott; value: William Byles and the Bradford Observer / David James; value: Public provision and private neglect ; public health / Barbara Thompson; value: The second reform agitation 1857-67 / David Wright; value: The pursuit of leisure / David Russell; value: "The defence of the bottom dog" : the Independent Labour Party in local politics / Keith Laybourn; value: A review of recent writing on the history of the town / Tony Jowitt.