“I little thought I’d caught so tough a Tartar!” The Labour interest and late-Victorian Manchester

Manchester local politics is today synonymous with the Labour Party. Fifty-four years of majority control has turned the party’s dominance in the city council into a fact of life. This article looks briefly at how the nascent Labour party conformed to its realities in late-Victorian Manchester and it was submitted to the Local/Community History Competition of 2024/2025.
AUTHOR: JOE KRAMER