Some Scenes from the Battle of Liverpool
A.J.P. Taylor, 16 July 1981
Democracy and Sectarianism: A Political and Social History of Liverpool 1868-1939
by P.J. Waller.
Liverpool, 556 pp., £24.50, May 1981,0 85223 074 5 Show More
by P.J. Waller.
Liverpool, 556 pp., £24.50, May 1981,
“... distinguished by the rule of the party boss. The Conservatives had a whole dynasty of them: Sir Arthur Forwood, Sir Archibald Salvidge and Sir Thomas White. Even Labour followed the example thus set, in the person of John Braddock, a founder member of the Communist Party who lapsed into respectability. Perhaps one should include his wife Bessie in the ... ”