Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of figures and tables vii
4. Notes on contributors viii
5. List of abbreviations xii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Peace, but not at any price 17
8. 2 At the crossroads 35
9. 3 ‘One of the most revolutionary proposals that has ever been put before the House’ 56
10. 4 Labour and socialism during the First World War in Bristol and Northampton 73
11. 5 A stronghold of liberalism? The north-east Lancashire cotton weaving districts and the First World War 91
12. 6 Living through war, waging peace 108
13. 7 ‘Industrial unionism for women’ 126
14. 8 The unsung heroines of radical wartime activism 145
15. 9 Charlie Chaplin’s war 166
16. 10 Irish Labour and the ‘Co-operative Commonwealth’ in the era of the First World War 182
17. 11 Russia’s war and revolutions as seen by Morgan Philips Price and Arthur Henderson 201
18. 12 The Stanford connection 220
19. 13 The problem of war aims and the Treaty of Versailles 240
20. Index 257