The Conserving Crowd: Mass Unionist Demonstrations in Liverpool and Tyneside, 1912–13

Liberal Unionism and political representation in Wales,c.1886-1893

“…Although he concentrates on the late Edwardian period, Jackson examines Home Rule through the prism of the public meeting, contending that such events were ‘an important yardstick for the assessment of public opinion’ . It is this article's contention, however, that Jackson's model is insufficiently comprehensive; in studying large‐scale demonstrations, he focuses more on crowd behaviour than the mechanics of constituency‐based low politics . One of the obstacles to an on‐the‐ground approach to the 1886 crisis is the lack of surviving minute books.…”