Table of Contents

1. Historical background; 2. The Deerness Valley; 3. The social and economic basis of paternalism: the colliery-owners in the Deerness Valley; 4. Village Methodism – I; 5. Village Methodism – II: the structure of the Methodist societies in the Deerness Valley; 6. The respectable Methodists and the old Liberalism; 7. The radicals and the Labour Movement, 1900–1926; 8. Methodists in action: three political case studies; 9. 1970 – a postscript; Conclusions.

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A study of four Durham mining villages in the period 1870 to 1926 which examines the effects of Methodism on the political life of the villages.