1. Bradford Industrial Museum, Lord Masham’s Private Letters [Lister Correspondence], T2002 880/1-9, 880/2, 16 Feb. 1891. These volumes are boxed collectively as ‘Lord Masham’s Private Letters’. Many were written to Samuel Cunliffe Lister both before and after his ennoblement, and also to his son who was later chairman of the company; but letters were also written by managers to employees, suppliers, clients, banks and lawyers. The letters commenced in 1871 and end in 1920, although coverage is not uniform.
2. See E.P. Thompson, ‘Homage to Tom Maguire’, inEssays in Labour History, ed. A. Briggs and J. Saville (1967), pp. 306–07; Cyril Pearce,The Manningham Mills Strike, Bradford December 1890–April 1891(Hull, 1975); Keith Laybourn, ‘The Manningham Mills Strike: its importance in Bradford history’,The Bradford Antiquary, new series,xlvi(1976), 7–35; Keith Laybourn, ‘The Manningham Mills Strike December 1890 to April 1891’, inThe Centennial History of the Independent Labour Party, ed. David James, Tony Jowitt and Keith Laybourn (Halifax, 1997) pp. 117–36; Asa Briggs, ‘Manningham Mills, Bradford’,History Today,xxxix(10) (1989), 62–63; Mary Blewett, ‘Diversities of Class and Gender Experience and the Shaping of Labor Politics: Yorkshire’s Manningham Mills Strike, 1890–91, and the Independent Labour Party’,Labor History,xxxxvii(2006), 511–35.
3. Pearce,The Manningham Mills Strike, pp. 79–80.
4. Significant coverage is also found in theYorkshire Factory Timesand theYorkshire Post. TheYorkshire Postwas extremely hostile to the strikers, and to theBradford Observereditor, William Byles.
5. Ben Turner,Short History of the General Union of Textile Workers(Heckmondwike, 1920), pp. 120–52.