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This book makes a major contribution to the social history of popular culture and working-class leisure.

The contributors explore important episodes in the development of cultural and associational activity in working people's leisure time. They focus on changes in cultural and associational form and highlight class situation and social conflict as key parts of those changes.

All the vivid details of historical study are here: pubs, alehouses, church bands, Methodism, street football, regulated entertainment, radical culture, Whitsun holidays, music halls, variety theatres, and working men's clubs. Bound together by general argument, these studies will substantially extend existing ideas on class conflict away from work. New research findings offer a coherent account of important areas of modern social life in England from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Preface

1. Alehouses, Order and Reformation in Rural England, 1590-1660

Keith Wrightson

2. Methodism and the Tatterdemalions

Arnold Rattenbury

3. 'Babylonian Performances': the Rise and Suppression of Popular Church Music, 1660-1870

Vic Gammon

4. Popular Recreation and Social Conflict in Derby, 1800-1850

Anthony Delves

5. Ways of Seeing: Control and Leisure versus Class and Struggle

Eileen and stephen Yeo

6. Culture and Constraint in Working-Class Movements, 1830-1855

Eileen Yeo

7. The Taming of Whitsun: the Changing Face of a Nineteenth-Century Rural Holiday

Alun Howkins

8. The Effingham Arms and the Empire: Deliberate Selection in the Evolution of Music Hall in London

Penelope Summerfield

9. London Working Men's Clubs, 1875-1914

T. G. Ashplant

10. Perceived Patterns: Competition and License versus Class and Struggle

Eileen and Stephen Yeo

Index