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An Imperial War and the British Working Class
Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902
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An Imperial War and the British Working Class
Working-Class Attitudes and Reactions to the Boer War, 1899-1902
About this book
First published in 2006. This study looks at a time when Victorian Britain was a time for self-doubt. There was an increasing fear that the 'place in the sun' that had so long been hers was being shadowed by the rising powers of Germany and the United States of America. Doubts arouse about her economic strength, her military prowess, even the viability of the two-party system. The South African War of 1899-1902 served for a time as the focus for all the fears that many Britons had about their country's future. The patriotism it engendered was exaggerated by the early military failures to resolve the problem of the troublesome Boers. The focus of the text is on working-class attitudes and reactions to the Boer War 1899-1902.
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Bibliography
A. UNPUBLISHED MATERIAL
1 British Library of Political and Economic Science
Broadhurst Collection
Courtney Collection
L.R.C. Minutes and Letters
Solly Collection
2 British Museum
John Burns Papers
Campbell-Bannerman Papers
Herbert Gladstone Papers
Letters of Captain C. Lafone
J. A. Spender Papers
3 Guildhall Library
CIV Collection
4 Islington Public Library
North London Socialist Club Minutes, 1896–1902
5 By courtesy of Mr Julius Jacobs
London Trades Council Minutes, 1896–1902
6 Leeds City Library
Leeds Liberal Federation Annual Reports, 1896–1902 Typescript MSS.
7 Leeds University, Brotherton Library
Mattison Collection
8 Public Records Office
Buller Papers, W.O. 132
Colonial Office Files, 427 and 428. ‘Resolution on the State of Affairs between South African Republic and Great Britain’
Home Office Files, 45
Metropolitan Police Papers, Mepol. 5
War Office Papers: 32, Miscellaneous
128, Imperial Yeomanry Attestation Forms
9 Sheffield Central Library
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10 By courtesy of Viscount Harcourt
Harcourt Papers
B. PUBLISHED MATERIAL
1 Official Publications
(a) Accounts and Papers
Annual Returns of the Volunteer Corps of Great Britain:
1899, Vol. XLIX (1900)
1900, Vol. XL (1901)
1901, Vol. LVIII (1902)
1902, Vol. LI (1904)
Census Reports of England and Wales, Vols CVIII-CXX (1902)
General Annual Report of the British Army for Year 1902, Vol. XXXVIII (1903)
Report of the Committee on the Organization, Arms, and Equipment of the Yeomanry Force, Vol. XL (1901)
(b) Reports
Annual Reports of the Inspector-General of Recruiting:
1899, Vol. X (1900)
1900, Vol. IX (1901)
1901, Vol. X (1902)
1902, Vol. XI (1903)
Royal Commission on Militia and Volunteers, Vols XXX–XXXI (1904)
Royal Commission on Physical Deterioration, Vol. XXXII (1904)
(c) Hansard, Parliamentary Debates, 4th Series, 1900
(d) Board of Trade, Labour Gazette, 1899–1902
2 Newspapers and Periodicals
(a) Newspapers
Ashton-under-Lyme Herald
Birmingham Daily Mail
Bradford Daily Argus
Bradford Labour Echo
Brighton Herald
Caithness Courier
Camden and Kentish Towns, Hampstead, Highgate, Holloway, and St Pancras Gazette
City Press
Clapham Observer
Cornish Post and Mining News
Crewe Guardian
Daily Free Press
(Aberdeen)
Darlington and Stockton Times
Derby Daily Telegraph
Derby Express
Dover Express
Dover Observer
Dundee Advertiser
East End News
East London Advertiser
Eastern Post and City Chronicle
Edinburgh Evening Despatch
Edinburgh Evening News
Evening Express
(Edinburgh)
Fifeshire Advertiser
Financial News
Gateshead Daily Chronicle
Glasgow Evening News
Grantham Times
Hackney Express and Shoreditch Observer
Hastings and St Leonards Observer
Keble’s Margate and Ramsgate Gazette
Hull Daily News
Labour Leader
Leicester Daily Post
Leigh Chronicle
Liskeard Weekly Mercury
Liverpool Daily Post
Manchester Guardian
Mercury (Hackney)
Mid-Surrey Gazette
Middleton Guardian
Midland Free Press
Morning Leader
Morpeth Herald
North Briton Daily Mail
Nottingham Daily Chronicle
Nottingham Daily Express
Northampton Daily Chronicle
Northampton Daily Reporter
Northampton Mercury
Penistone Express
Peoples Journal
(Aberdeen)
Reynolds News
Rochdale Labour News
Scarborough Evening News
Scarborough Mercury
Scarborough Post
The Scotsman
Sheffield and Rotherham Independent
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Southwark and Bermondsey Reporter
South London Chronicle
South-Western Star
Star
Stockport Borough Express
Sunderland Herald and Daily Post
The Times Tottenham and Stamford Hill and Stoke Newington Gazette
Tunbridge Wells Gazette
Walsall Free Press
Walthamstow Reporter
West Ham Citizen
Western Morning News
Yorkshire Post
(b) Periodicals
Bermondsey Record
Cheltenham Working Men’s College Magazine
Club and Institute Journal
Club Life
Club World
Concord
Daylight
Herald of Peace
House and Home
I.L.P. News
Iron and Coal Trades Review
London Scottish Regimental Gazette
London Trades and Labour Gazette
Morley College Magazine
New Age
Our Magazine
Quarterly Newssheet of the Federation of Working Men’s Social Clubs
Regiment
Social Institutes Magazine
Toynbee Record
Vagrant
Volunteer Record and Shooting News
Volunteer Service Gazette
War Against War
War Against War in South Africa
The Working Man
Working Men’s College Calendars
Working Men’s College Journal
3 Non-official Publications
(a) Pamphlets
Battersea Stop-the-War Committee. The Capitalist’s War. Batter-sea’s Plea for Peace. London: Battersea Stop-the-War Committee, 1902.
Clark, Dr G. B. Speech on the Transvaal Crisis. London: the Transvaal Committee, July 1899.
Courtney, Leonard. The Competition Among Nations. Edinburgh: Young Scot’s Publication Department, 1902.
—Present Difficulties in Political Thinking and Acting. Edinburgh: Young Scot’s Publication Department, 1902.
—The War in South Africa. Birmingham: Joseph Sturge, 1900.
Ellis, J. E. Speeches on South African Affairs. J. E. Ellis, May 1900.
Gooch, G. P., The War and Its Causes. London: Transvaal Committee, 1899.
Harrison, Frederic. The State of Siege. London: SACC Pamphlet No. 92, n.d.
Imperial South African Association, Speech by Geoffrey Drage at Derby 7 December 1899. London: Imperial South African Association, Pamphlet No. 21, 1899.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I The Failure of Radicalism
- II Working-Class Attitudes and Institutions
- III The ‘Khaki’ Election of 1900
- IV The Jingo Crowd
- V The Pattern of Recruitment for the Boer War
- VI Conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index