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

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 and was Speaker of the House of Commons 192128, presiding over the debates at the time of the General Strike of 1926. In 192931 he toured India as chairman of the Royal Commission on Indian Labour and he was chairman of the BBC between 1930 and 1935.

He was thus a vitally important political figure who was active at the rise of Labour and the decline of Liberalism, involved in the Liberal reforms of the Edwardian age, and deeply concerned about industrial relations in early twentieth-century Britain and beyond.

This volume brings together leading academics and provides new information and analysis on the life, work and times of J.H. Whitley, offering a study of his career in British politics and society, focusing particularly on the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first three decades of the twentieth century.

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 Antiquaries. 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 Hud-dersfield, a prolific writer on British labour history, and both President and Secretary of the Society for the Study of Labour History. He co-authored Britains First Labour Government (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 2013) and has recently published The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law c. 18901970 (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, 18821956 (2017).

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Liberal Reform and Industrial Relations:
J.H. Whitley (18661935), Halifax Radical and Speaker of the House of Commons
Edited by John A. Hargreaves, Keith Laybourn and Richard Toye

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 and Richard Toye

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This collection is dedicated to the memory
of John Wilson Barrett
12 February 19632 October 2016
A Halifax man whose values inspired him to work
on a biography of J.H. Whitley

Contents

by John Whitley (grandson)

by John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons

JOHN A. HARGREAVES, KEITH LAYBOURN AND RICHARD TOYE

JOHN A. HARGREAVES

C.S. KNIGHTON

CLYDE BINFIELD

KEITH LAYBOURN

GREG PATMORE

RICHARD TOYE

GRAHAM E. SEEL

AMERDEEP PANESAR, AMY STODDART, JAMES TURNER, PAUL WARD AND SARAH WELLS

DAVID HENDY

CHRISTINE VERGUSON

KEITH ROBBINS

JOHN BARRETT

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Editors

Dr John A. Hargreaves has taught extensively in secondary, higher and adult education, mainly in West Yorkshire. He obtained his first degree at the University of Southampton and later completed a masters degree and PhD part-time at the University of Huddersfield, where he is now a Visiting Research Fellow in History. He is also an Associate of the Leeds Centre of Victorian Studies, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Fellow of the Historical Association and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is currently preparing a third edition of his history of Halifax and writing a bicentenary history of the Halifax Choral Society. He has written over forty articles for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , edited twenty-five volumes of the Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society and a volume of nineteenth-century manorial court rolls published by the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. He co-edited Slavery in Yorkshire. Richard Oastler and the campaign against child labour in the Industrial Revolution for the University of Huddersfield Press in 2012 and reviews regularly for the Historical Association website.

Professor Keith Laybourn is the Diamond Jubilee Professor at the University of Huddersfield within the Division of History where he has also been Professor of Modern British History. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and an Honorary Fellow of the Historical Association. He edited the Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature for the Historical Association for eleven years and has written and edited more than forty books and written about eighty articles. He has written extensively on British Labour history, including a co-authored book on Britains First Labour Government (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 2013) and has just published The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police, Motorists and the Law c.1890s1970 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

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