Leadership and Power in Victorian Industrial Towns, 1830-80 |
Contents
The nature of municipal leadership | 13 |
The power of municipal leadership | 38 |
Power within local authorities | 63 |
Local authorities and the outside world | 85 |
Local authorities and the outside world | 105 |
Rochdale politics II | 137 |
Bolton politics I | 159 |
Bolton politics II | 182 |
Salford politics | 208 |
Conclusion | 222 |
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activities Alderman April areas board of guardians Bolton and Salford Bolton Chronicle borough boroughreeve Broughton candidates cent chapter Chartists chief constable Church rates classes clauses committee Conservative constables corporation cotton famine council elections councillors court leet crucial decision economic electoral elite's evident example factory groups Hennock important Improvement Bill improvement commissioners incorporation influence institutional system issues January large proprietors leaders leadership legislative less Liberal Liberal elite Little Bolton Lower Broughton majority Manchester manufacturers mayor mobilisation Moreover municipal elites municipalisation Nevertheless nineteenth-century nomination Nonconformists November October opposition organised overseers parish parish meeting Parliament participation particularly party conflict petition philanthropic Poor Law popular population pressure problems public meeting radicals ratepayers result river Croal Rochdale Rochdale Observer Rochdale's sanitary September sewage shopkeepers small proprietors Spotland Thomas Livsey three towns Tory town meeting town's township meetings vestry whilst workhouse working-class