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The Sash on the Mersey: The Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982)

The Sash on the Mersey: The Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982) - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Mervyn BusteedPublish date:2023-11-17Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781837645084ISBN-10:1837645086UPC:9781837645084Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.20 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCG0X0GM1C

The book examines how an organisation originating in late eighteenth-century Ireland became a significant and controversial element in Liverpool history. Using a wide range of sources including rarely accessed Orange Order records it places the Order within an early nineteenth-century Liverpool context of apocalyptic evangelical Protestantism, a labour market dominated by irregular dock work, a growing influx of immigrant Catholic Irish, marked residential segregation and sporadic civil conflict. It explores how the Order survived official disapproval, dissolution and schism to become deeply rooted within Protestant working-class communities. It analyses the attractions of lodge life, the appeal of ritual, colourful regalia and 12th July processions, the intense social bonding within lodges, the mutual support provided in adversity and measure taken to guard and transmit their world view. The intense royalism and patriotism of the Order and its troubled relationship with the Church of England are examined plus its role in sustaining the working class Tory vote which contributed to a century long Conservative hegemony in city politics. The book concludes with the cultural and socio-economic changes in British society which marginalised the core concerns of the Order, triggering decline in strength, visibility and significance in civic life.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Liverpool University PressISBN-13:9781837645084ISBN-10:1837645086UPC:9781837645084Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Social History, EuropeBook Topic:Great BritainSize:9.20 x 5.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCG0X0GM1C
Mervyn Busteed is Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press

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