In this important study, Dave Russell explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and popu

From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a

This book examines the process by which a capitalist society emerged in Bradford. Although Bradford represents an unusual social environment where industrial de

From the bawdy audience of a Victorian Penny Gaff to the excitable crowd of an early twentieth century football match, working-class male leisure proved to be a

Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first mod