Research Catalog

Title

The sash on the Mersey : the Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982) / Mervyn Busteed.

Author

Busteed, M. A. (Mervyn Austen), 1944-

Publication

• Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

xii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

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.

Subject

• Orange Order > History
• Orange Order
• 1800-1999
• Protestantism > England > Liverpool > History > 19th century
• Protestantism > England > Liverpool > History > 20th century
• Protestantism
• England > Liverpool

Genre/Form

• Informational works.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 24-1050

ISBN

• 1837645086
• 9781837645084
• 9781837644827 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

1374816229

Author

Busteed, M. A. (Mervyn Austen), 1944- author.

Title

The sash on the Mersey : the Orange Order in Liverpool (1819-1982) / Mervyn Busteed.

Publisher

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781837644827

Research Call Number

JFE 24-1050