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Full Description
This long-awaited book will be the only full history of Halifax available, and it will almost certainly never be bettered. The town has a wonderfully rich and interesting past, celebrated and enhanced by recent developments, all covered in A History of
Halifax. Whether the book is bought as a treat for self or as a gift, it will inform and delight in equal measure.
All new edition, fully up to date and enlarged
Contents
List of Tables
Series Editor's foreword to the first edition
Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition
Preface and acknowledgements to the second edition
Preface and acknowledgements to the third edition
1 Introduction: geography and environment
2 A Pennine backwater: Halifax before 1500
Prehistory from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age
From the Iron Age to the Roman Conquest
Britons, Angles, Saxons, Vikings and the Normans
Medieval Halifax
3 'The inhabitants do altogether live by cloth making': Halifax and its hinterland, 1500-1750
Halifax and the regional economy
Social structure, occupations and living standards
Religion and politics
Local government
Social welfare, education and culture
'A pretty well-built town of stone'
4 'An astonishing trading town': Halifax in the age of industrial expansion, 1750-1850
Commercial and industrial expansion
Social structure, occupations and living standards
Religion and politics
Local government
'A large smoke-canopied commercial town'
5 'Town of a hundred trades': Victorian and Edwardian Halifax, 1851-1914
The economy: industrial diversification and the service sector
Social geography
Politics: Chartists, Liberals, Labour and the Suffragettes
The provision of local services
Culture: religion and recreation
'Restless Renaissance city'
6 Halifax at War and Peace, 1914-45
Wars
Population
The economy: boom, bust and restructuring
Local government
Local politics
Culture: religion and recreation
'Black Halifax boiled in phosphorus'
7 Post-War Halifax: from County Borough to Metropolitan Borough, 1946-2018
Population
Employment and industry: the decline of manufacturing and the growth of the service sector
Local government
Local politics
Religious, social and cultural life
'A town full of character and hidden beauty'
Notes
Index
