- Foreword by John Prescott
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Heroic Age of Northern Socialism 1. Democratic Struggles: Peterloo and Chartism
- 2. Between Chartism and Socialism
- 3. Th e New Party in the North
- 4. A Northern Socialist Culture
- Part 2 Centralism Triumphant? 5. Between Communism and Labourism?
- 6. Th e High Tide of Social Democracy
- 7. Th atcher, Blair and the Regions
- Part 3 The North resurgent 8. Radical Regionalism: Will the North rise again?
- Northern Socialist Network
- Appendices
- Timelines: A Northern Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Index