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Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons book cover

1st Edition

Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations: J.H. Whitley (1866-1935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons

Edited By John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, Richard Toye Copyright 2018
232 Pages
by Routledge

234 Pages 2 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 Color & 14 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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J.H. Whitley came from an established business family in Halifax, where he engaged in youth work and municipal politics before becoming MP for Halifax from 1900 to 1928. He was a Liberal Radical who worked with Labour, gave his name to the industrial councils of the First World War, was Speaker of the House of Commons 1921-28 presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926.... Read more
  1. Introduction

    2. John Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn, and Richard Toye

  2. J.H. Whitley (1866-1935): A Speaker shaped by his Halifax roots

    3. John Hargreaves

  3. Clifton: Inspiration and Service

    4. C. S. Knighton

  4. J.H. Whitley: A Model for Free Churchmen

    5. Clyde Binfield

  5. J.H. Whitley and Halifax Politics between 1890 and 1906: The Politics of Social Reform

    6. Keith Laybourn

  6. Industrial Relations and joint industrial councils: the UK and beyond 1916-1939

    7. Greg Patmore

  7. J.H. Whitley as Speaker of the House of Commons, 1921-1928

    8. Richard Toye

  8. J.H. Whitley and St. Stephen’s Hall in the Palace of Westminster

    9. Graham E. Seel

  9. J.H. Whitley and the Royal Commission on Labour in India 1929-1931

    10. Amerdeep Panesar, Amy Stoddard, James Turner, Paul Ward and Sarah Wells

  10. J.H. Whitley and the BBC 1930-1935

    11. David Hendy

  11. ‘Equal partners in a great enterprise’: experiencing Radio in Yorkshire

    12. in the time of J. H. Whitley

    Christine Verguson

  12. Self-government: J. H. Whitley’s worlds in context

    13. Keith Robbins

  13. J.H. Whitley ‘first draft of history’: a study of the obituaries and personal tributes

John Barrett

Biography

John A. Hargreaves is an Associate of the Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Historical Association and a Fellow of the Society of Anitiquaries. He has written extensively and co-edited Slavery in Yorkshire: Richard Oastler and the campaign against child labour in the Industrial Revolution (2012).

Keith Laybourn is the Diamond Jubilee Professor of the University of Huddersfield, a prolific writer on British labour history, and both President and Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History. He co-authored Britain’s First Labour Government (2006, 2013) and has recently published The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law c. 1890-1970 (2015).

Richard Toye is Professor of Modern History at the University of Exeter. He is widely published and his most recent book (co-written with Martin Thomas) is Arguing about Empire: Imperial Rhetoric in Britain and France, 1882-1956 (2017).

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