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About this book
This popular history explores the cultural heritage and identity of Lancashire, stretching from the Mersey to the Lake District. Paul Salveson charts the county’s transformation from a largely agricultural region noted for its religious learning into the Industrial Revolution’s powerhouse, as an emerging self-confident bourgeoisie drove economic growth. This capital boom came with a cultural blossoming, creating today’s Lancashire.
Industrialists strongly committed to the arts endowed galleries and museums, producing a diverse world of science, technology, music and literature. Lancashire developed a distinct business culture, but this was also the birthplace of the world co-operative movement, and the heart of democracy campaigns including Chartism and women’s suffrage. Lancashire has generally welcomed incomers, who have long helped to inform its distinctive identity: fourteenth-century Flemish weavers; nineteenth-century Irish immigrants and Jewish refugees; and, more recently, ‘New Lancastrians’ from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
This long-overdue book explores contemporary Lancastrian culture, following modern upheavals and Lancashire’s fragmentation compared with its old rival Yorkshire. What future awaits the 6 million people of this rich historic region?
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Photos
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Lancashire—County, Culture and Identity
- 1. The Shape of Lancashire
- 2. Shaping Lancashire
- 3. A Lancashire Sensibility
- 4. Feeding Lancashire: Food and Drink
- 5. Living in Lancashire: Housing and Health
- 6. Educating Lancashire
- 7. Lancastrians at Work
- 8. Lancastrians at Play: Recreation, Holidays and the Country
- 9. Sporting Lancashire
- 10. Lancastrians at War
- 11. Co-operative Lancashire
- 12. Lancastrian Art and Literature
- 13. Musical Lancashire
- 14. Lancashire at Prayer
- 15. Lancashire: Politics and Governance
- 16. Lancastrians Abroad
- 17. New Lancastrians
- 18. A Lancashire Renaissance?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Back cover