Vol 173 (2024)

Special issue marking 170 years since the Preston Lock-Out and Strike, 1853-1854. In addition to a context-providing introduction by the guest editorial team, the volume contains nine articles relating to the Strike, a research note focusing on the the bicentenary of the University of Manchester and nine book reviews.

This volume is not available in digital form on our website at present. HSLC members receive a copy of this volume plus online access to this and other recent volumes through Liverpool University Press. However, this Special Issue includes seven articles which are available on ‘open-access’, generously funded by the University of Central Lancashire and Glasgow Caledonian University.

Front matter:
Editorial note
Notes on contributors

RESEARCH NOTE

Manchester at 200: Student Reflections, Differing Cohorts and Changing Times 1965-2024
Bertie Dockerill

ARTICLES

Introduction to the Special Issue Commemorating the 170th Anniversary of the 1853-1854 Preston Lock-Out
Lewis Darwen, Jack Southern and Andrew Hobbs
OPEN ACCESS

Women and the Preston Lock-Out: Not Just ‘ten per cent’
Janet Greenlees
OPEN ACCESS

Strikers and ‘Knobsticks’: Intimidation and Violence During the Preston Strike and Lock-Out of 1853-1854
Lewis Darwen

The Irish and the Preston Lock-Out, 1853–1854
Máirtín Ó Catháin
OPEN ACCESS

The Periodicals that Puzzled Dickens: The Weekly Balance Sheets of the Preston Lock-Out, 1853-1854
Andrew Hobbs
OPEN ACCESS

Ten Per Cent Ballads and the ‘Shodeocracy’: Labour, Violence and Humour
Simon Rennie

The Preston Strike in Literature: Dickens, Gaskell and Bamford
Robert Poole
OPEN ACCESS

‘I think you’d strike’: Interpreting Preston in The Strike
Mike Sanders

The Narratives and Legacies of the Preston Lock-Out
Jack Southern
OPEN ACCESS

Reappropriating Cultural Memory of the Preston Lock-Out: Can Animation Be Used to Refocus and Reposition Historical Events Using Historical Visual Archives?
Sarah Ann Kennedy-Parr
OPEN ACCESS

BOOK REVIEWS

Report of Council for the Year 2023

Council and Officers for 2023

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