Business in the North West

Financial constraints and the decline of the Lancashire cotton textile industry, c1880-c1965.

Lancashire and the New Zealand market in the mid twentieth century: cotton, glass and locomotives.

Freemasonry and civic identity: municipal politics, business and the rise of Blackpool from the 1850s to the First World War.

Brewing in the North West, 1840-1914: sowing the seeds of service-sector management?

The development of toy-manufacturing in the North West, c1851-1931.

Working on the frontiers of risk: the insurance industry in north-west England since 1700.

Lancashire’s highway men: the business community and road improvements during the industrial revolution.

Straws in the wind: the local and regional roots of an occupational disease epidemic.

• Author: edited by John F. Wilson