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Subject Title of article Issue Pages
Agricultural Workers / Strikes Lancashire's 'Revolt in the Field': the Ormskirk Farmworkers' Strike of 1913 8 56-67
Alternative Press The Possibilities of Print:  the Alternative Press in the North West during the 1970s 27 65-67
Anti-fascism Anti-fascism in the North West:1976-1982 27 17-28
Archives The Tools of the Trade 15 26-30
National Banner Survey 24 74-78
Material on the North West in the 1960s at the Pumphouse People's HistoryMuseum 26 48
Tameside Local Studies and Archives move to new purpose-built centre 30 15
Jim Allen Television Drama and Social Change:  Jim Allen in the 1960s 26 30-32
A Continued Commitment to Socialism:  Jim Allen's Television Drama in the 1970s 27 52-54
Berlin No Future for History? On the Work of History in Berlin before and after the Political Upheaval 18 10-18
Blackburn A curious commemoration 32 54-55
Bolton Bolton Socialist Party and Club: 100 years at Wood Street, 1905-2005 30 8-11
Bolton Socialist Club's Centenary at Wood Stree 31 66
Bradford The story of a socialist Sunday school banner 32 64-67
Building trades / Ireland and the Irish Carrying the Hod: Irish Immigrant Labour in the Manchester Building Trades 16 36-41
Burnley Dan Irving and Socialist Politics in Burnley 23 2-12
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament From Gentlemen's Club to Folk Festival:  the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, 1958-1963 26 18-28
Carters Contributions, Badges and the Liverpool Carters 2 17-21
He Delivered the Goods. A brief history of the Liverpool carter 15 67-69
Chartism The Decline of Chartism in South-East and North-East Cheshire 1850-1870 1 11-15
Chartism in the North West 1 16-18
Some Chartist Poetry of North West England 17 52-65
Chartism / Ireland and the Irish Biographies of Irish Chartists 16 86-93
Cinema / Co-operative Movement The People's Cinemas: The Picture Houses of the Co-operative Movement 19 31-47
Clarion Club Socialism, Fellowship and Food: Manchester's Clarion Cafe 1908-1936 21 30-38
Pedal Power ... The Continuing Journey of the National Clarion Cycling  Club 29 32-47
William Cobbett, 1763-1835 Two Cocks on the Dunghill 34 5-7
Co-operative Movement Heads, Hands and the Co-operative Utopia: An Essay in Historiography 19 3-23
Co-operation and the Working Class in Liverpool and the Rhondda 19 48-64
Lost History Restored: Carston and District Co-operative Society, 1884-1934 19 65-78
'The Live Links': Historical Notes on the Co-operative Press 19 79-84
The Early Co-operative Movement in Salford and District 19 85-96
Co-operation in the North West of England 1919-1939: Stronghold or Stagnation? 19 97-114
Co-operation in Lancashire, 1844-1914 19 115-125
Charles Howarth: Rochdale Pioneer 19 126-128
Margaret Llewelyn Davies, 1861-1944: Co-operator and Social Reformer 19 129-139
Robert Weare: an Early Socialist, Co-operator and Idealist 19 140-145
Women's Co-operative Guild Banners 19 146-150
An Exciting Find: the Liverpool Oakfield Co-operative Women's Guild Branch Banner 19 151-153
Co-operative Movement / Working Class Movement Library Primary and Seondary Sources for the Study of Co-operation in the Working Class Movement Library 19 24-26
Coal industry The Lancashire Pit Brow Lasses and the campaign to remove women from surface labour 3 1-5
True Story of a Lancashire Pit Brow Lass 11 1-7
Portraits of 19th Century Lancashire Miners' Leaders: William Pickard, JP, 1821-1887; George Pickard, 1823-1900; Joseph Booth, 1834-1874;Robert Lewis, 1833-1880. 11 11-24
Songs from the Lancashire Seam 11 25-38
The Strange Story (Recollections of a coal miner) 11 39-46
Sketches of a Collier Life 11 47-60
The Coal Lockout (1893) 11 61-64
'It's our Fight too!' Solidarity and Support in Lancaster during the Miners' Strike 1984-85 11 71-83
Bold Memories of '84. Bolton Clarion's ride round the Lancashire Pits, December 8th 1984 11 84-86
One Woman's Story. An Agecroft Miner's wife 11 87-89
Fighting on. Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures 12 74-78
Communism Archives Note 1: Communist Political C.V.s 22 70-77
The West Yorkshire Communist Party and the Struggle for the United Front against Fascism during 1933 23 29-39
Communist Party Biographical Project.  Communism and the British Labour Movement: a prosopographical analysis, September 1999-August 2001 26 47
Conscientious Objectors James Hindle Watson - the Eccles 'Conshi' 18 44-48
Conscientious Objectors on the road 18 49-51
Cotton industry Labour and Liberalism in Textile Lancashire, 1910-1914 10 37-50
Cotton and Slavery in Todmorden and North East Lancashire, 1861-64 15 51-58
Struggles against Redundancies in the Textile Machinery industry in the North West 1948-56. 23 40-48
Cotton industry / Oldham Oldham: the Politics of Cotton and the 'Catholic Vote' in the 1930s. 21 39-57
Cotton industry / Strikes The Calling of the 1932 Cotton Strike 3 7-11
Watching and Besetting: the Burnley Police and the More Looms Disputes, 1931-1932 5 1-10
Cotton industry / Trade Unions Manchester Studies Trade Union Project: Records of the Cotton Unions 5 38-44
Daisy Nook The Writings of 'Daisy Nook' 12 49-52
George Dangerfield The Strange Death of Liberal England – review essay 31 7-11
Michael Davitt Michael Davitt – Irish Patriot and Campaigner for Social Justice 30 32
Davitt remembered:  celebrating his life 1846-1906, in his centenary year 31 16-17
Michael Davitt, labour and the Irish question 32 60-63
Dock workers / Ireland and the Irish Irish Leaders and the Liverpool Dockers: Richard McGhee and Edward McRugh 9 36-44
Dock workers / Liverpool History in the Making: the Liverpool Docks Dispute 1995-96 21 67-72
History in the Making: the end of the Liverpool Docks Dispute 1998 23 49-54
History in the Making: Liverpool Dockers Face the Future 24 70-72
Liverpool's Women Dockers 25 2-14
'Good Men': the History and Culture of Liverpool Dockworkers 29 12-18
Liverpool Dockworkers during the First World War 31 12-15
Dock workers / Strikes Post-war Dock Strikes 1945-1955 15 82-96
Dock workers / Women Women's Work on the waterfront, 1916-1987 14 31-39
Eccles Ermen and Engels 31 34-36
'The power to get things changed'!.  Ellen Tooley, Eccles' first woman councillor 33 20-26
Engineering industry Eddie Frow and Engineering Struggles 13 46-61
Ethnic minorities Africa in Manchester: Pan-African Celebrations at the National Museum of LabourHistory 20 15
Labour Migration, Racial Formation and Class Identity. Some Reflections on the British Case 20 16-35
Sambo's Grave: Testimony of Lancaster's involvement in the Slave Trade 20 36-38
Black People in pre-20th Century Cumbria 20 39-40
A Hidden History in Liverpool: the James Family 20 41-43
The Browns of the 'Times': an Instance of Black Social Mobility in the I9th Century 20 44-49
West Africans, Black Scousers and the Colour Problem in inter-war Liverpool 20 50-57
Black Struggle for Historical Recognition in Liverpool 20 58-66
Eric Lynch: a Very Active Life 20 67-72
'I am a Lancastrian bred and born... 1: the Life and Times of John Archer, 1863-1932 20 73-85
Ethnic minorities / Pan-African Congress The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress 20 3-14
European Works Councils 'Working Together':  Intercultural Exchange contributes to successful European Worker Representation 30 16
Fascism / Manchester The Mosley Rally, King's Hall, Belle Vue, February 1933 18 52-54
Finland / Museums The Foundation of the Central Museum of Labour, Finland 18 19-20
First World War Working Class Heroes:  Researching First World War Working Class Soldiers 34 20-24
Alice Foley No place for a lady:  how the unions tried to keep women out of office – a case study of Alice Foley 33 9-11
French Revolution Politics, Protest and the People of the North West in the Age of the French Revolution 15 37-50
Ruth Frow Obituary.  Ruth Frow: a life in labour history 33 5-7
Gatehouse Project Community Writing and Publishing 12 57-68
Gater, Moses Bill Spriggs goes back in time 12 100-103
Gawthorpe, Mary Mary Gawthorpe:  A Suffragette in America 28 12-13
General Strike The General Strike in Manchester 1 1- 5
What it was like in '26 11 70
Manchester Railway Workers in the General Strike 15 70-74
General Strike / Merseyside The General Strike on Merseyside 1 6- 10
The General Strike 1926:  Some Catholic Responses, Cardinal Francis Bourne, John Wheatleu, MP, James Sexton, MP and Joseph Tinker, MP. 34 9-14
George Garrett George Garrett: Man and Writer 14 48-51
Forecastle Justice 14 52-57
Gorman, John John Gorman 1930-1990 22 86-87
Greaves, Desmond Desmond Greaves: an Appreciation 14 58-59
Health Hazard! Health in the Workplace over 200 years 30 28-31
Heritage industry Whose Heritage?  (Reprinted in issue 32) 14 1-13
Eric Higgins Obituary 34 50
Ethel Carnie Holdsworth Her place in the Lancashire protest tradition and her distinctive propaganda style 32 51-53
Hungry Thirties The Hunger Marches of the Nineteen Thirties: Some Random Comments 13 39-45
Culture and Politics in the Hungry Thirties 17 38-51
Henry Hunt 1773-1835 Two Cocks on the Dunghill 34 5-7
Independent Labour Party The ILP in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1893-1900 4 63-91
Manchester and Salford ILP: a more controversial aspect of the pre-1914 era 5 25-31
The ILP between the Wars 5 32-37
Charlie Reekie's Dream: The Manchester Clarion Clubhouses 1897-1951 17 14-23
Independent Labour Party / Clarion Club Fellowship is Life: the Bolton Clarion Cycling Club and the Clarion Movement, 1894-1914 10 20-30
'The Dear Old Perisher' - The Clarion Newspaper 1891-1935 17 33-37
Ireland and the Irish The Belfast Labour Dispute and Riot of 1907 4 92-129
English Working Class Radicalism and the Irish 8 5-18
The Irish Dimension of the British Labour Movement, 1886-1929 15 59-66
What kind of History does the Irish Community need 16 8-13
English-Irish Conflict in the North West of England: Economics, Racism, Anti-Catholic or Simple Xenophobia? 16 14-25
Irish Settlement in North West England in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: a Geographical Critique 16 26-35
The Manchester Irish National Convention 1918 16 56-60
Our Efforts in Great Britain 16 61-63
My 70's:  West of Ireland, East of Manchester 27 43-44
Ireland and the Irish / Labour Party Liverpool Labourism and Irish Nationalism in the 1920s and 1930s 8 19-28
So Utterly Forgotten: Irish Prisoners and the 1924 Labour Government 16 73-77
Ireland and the Irish / Women Eva Gore-Booth: An Irish woman in Manchester 16 52-55
Ireland and the Irish / Working Class Movement Library The Irish Collection in the Working Class Movement Library 16 78-85
Jerry Dawson Jerry Dawson - obituary 15 97-98
Jim Garnett My Autobiography 9 25-35
Grass Eye Grass Eye: the Story of an Underground Newspaper 26 10-14
Keir Hardie Keir Hardie's Evening Prayer 17 87-88
Labour history Teaching Labour History - towards a theme 4 130-140
Origins of the NW Labour History Group and the role of Ruth and Eddie Frow 13 2
Labour History Memorabilia 17 89-94
On Labour History in Hungary Today 18 3-4
No Future for History? On the Work of History in Berlin before and after the Political Unpheaval 18 10-18
Labour History on the Internet: a guide to some useful sites 24 79-89
The Historian as Outsider: Writing Public History From Within and Without a Group 25 48-54
Heritage, Commemoration and Interpretation: Labour and Radical Movements and the Built Environment 29 48-51
Labour Party Labour in North Lancashire: Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness, c.1890-1911 2 1-15
Was the Labour Party Inevitable? 10 1-19
Accommodation or Confrontation? Catholic Response to the Formation of the Labour Party 16 64-72
The Russo-Polish War and Labour's Council of Action, August 1920 23 13-28
The Labour Party and the Politics of Anti-Racism in the North-West: The Cases of Manchester and Liverpool 25 15-24
Merseyside Labour:  influences on the performance of the Labour Party on Merseyside, 1918-1939 31 20-31
Labour Party / Liverpool The Liverpool Labour Party and the Liverpool Working Class, 1900-39 6 2-14
Labour Party / Women Women and Labour Party Organisation, Past and Present 12 95-96
Gender, Class and Political Activism in the North West:  Labour Women's Organisation in the 1970s 27 35-42
Lancaster Public history and the past:  slavery memorials in Lancxaster 32 23-25
Left Book Club The Left Book Club in Manchester and Salford 21 58-66
Liverpool The Liverpool Trades' Council 1880-1914 3 10-16
Orange and Green and Militancy: Sectarianism and Working Class Politics in Liverpool, 1900-1914 6 15-32
The Liverpool Bread Riots, 1855 6 33-42
Bessie Braddock, Bevanism and the Struggle for Liverpool Exchange, 1952-55 25 55-63
The TEMP Manifesto 30 25-27
Liverpool in the 1960s:  counter-cultural Struggles on the Mersey 26 39-43
Children of the Ghetto:  the Story of the Real Thing 27 47-51
'We Won't Pay' – Women's Struggle on Tower Hill (a new housing estate near Liverpool) 28 30-35
Bittersweet Pensioner Stories (Sugar industry) 31 56-59
The Litigious Consequences of Mr Cube (sugar industry) 31 60-64
Joseph Williamson:  the Mole of Edge Hill 31 65-66
Liverpool Love Lane refinery lives  (sugar industry) 32 40-50
Liverpool / Museums The Museum of Liverpool Life incorporating Merseyside Museum of Labour History 18 69-71
Liverpool / Police The plastic bizzies Part I 32 37-39
The Plastic bizzies, Par II 34 46-49
Liverpool / Seafarers The Other Stormy Passage. Liverpool Seamen and their union 14 21-30
Liverpool / Women Women and Work in Liverpool: An Oral History 17 75-86
Liverpool Working Class Women and World War Two:  an Oral History 31 40-47
Working class women, Liverpool:  education, 1910-1930 32 56-59
Mothers and daughters:  working class women, Liverpool 1900-1940 33 37-43
Macclesfield / Women Women's and Men's Unemployment in Macclesfield between the Wars 9 5-13
Ewan MacColl Ewan MacColl – The People's Friend? 26 33-38
Ewan MacColl:the Debate 27 82-83
Malcolm X Malcolm X in Manchester and Sheffield 27 29-34
Manchester The Manchester Banner Makers 3 17-24
The Story of the Manchester Martyrs 16 42-51
A Political Refugee in Manchester 18 27-43
The Round House in Ancoats 18 59-64
Communist Engineers and the Second World War in Manchester 22 60-69
From Gentlemen's Club to Folk Festival:  the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Manchester, 1958-1963 26 18-28
The Music of the People – The Manchester Folk Scene:  a very personal and perhaps coloured memoir 26 44-46
Fighting Deportations and for Family Unity in Greater Manchester – the Early History 27 12-16
Malcolm X in Manchester and Sheffield 27 29-34
My 70s:  West of Ireland, East of Manchester 27 43-44
The Revolution will not be Televised? The Manchester Film and Video Workshop 27 55-59
The Revolution in High Lane?  Direct Action Community Politics in Manchester in the 1970s 27 60-64
A Message from Mab:  the Manchester Working Class and its attachment to Percy Bysshe Shelley in the early Nineteenth Century, including an insight into two of his fans, the Silk Weaver Elijah Ridings and the Shoemaker William Campion 29 19-25
The 1945 Manchester Waterproof  Clothing Workers' Strike:  achieving success without traditional trade union support 29 26-29
Friends of Manchester Centre for Regional History 31 37
Manchester / Salford / Theatre and film The Workers' Theatre Movement in Manchester and Salford, 1931-1940 17 66-75
Manchester and Salford Film Society 29 30
Wrenching apart Capitalism, or, 'Big in Dudley':  The Story of North West Spanner 27 68-74
Manchester / Women Ideology in Bricks and Mortar: Women's Housing in Manchester Between the Wars 12 24-48
Mass Observation The Economics of Everyday Life: A Mass Observation Project in Bolton 17 95-102
The Mass Observation Archive: A Personal Note 17 103-109
Mechanic's Institute An Outline History of the Mechanics' Institute 15 32-36
Merseyside Merseyside Labour:  influences on the electoral performance of the Labour Party on Merseyside, 1918-1939 31 20-31
Mods and rockers Memoir: Ton Up Boys 23 57-59
Museums Merseyside Museum of LabourHistory 12 98-99
Music Clubs Music Force 27 75-79
Naomi Symes bookshop Opening up the people's past to the people 31 18-19
National Museum of Labour History Speech at the opening of the National Museum of Labour History, 7 May 1990 15 9-12
National Museum of Labour History: Past, Present and Future 15 13-15
Which History? Whose History? 15 16-25
National Museum of Labour History and its new home 18 65-68
Nelson Fighting for Peace, Waiting for War. Left-wing attitudes in Nelson to Europe and Rearmament 1935-1939 22 48-59
Nelson ILP Clarion House:  a remarkable Survivor 30 21-22
Netherlands Collecting and Preserving Trade Union History in the Netherlands 18 5-9
New Liberalism Lancashire and New Liberalism 4 36-62
New Party - Nazis Who makes the Nazis? North West experiences of the New Party 1931-32 32 7-15
Norris, Jill Jill Norris - Some Memories 12 1-2
North West Labour History Group Thirty Years On 30 33
John B. Smethurst and the North West Labour History Group 31 37
North West Sound Archive Preserving the past for the future 31 48
Owen, Robert / Shelley Shelley and the Owenites 17 10-13
Preston Preston Remembers 18 55-57
Radical Press The Radical Press Gang…. (special reference to Salford) 34 15-18
Sagar, Seth Memoirs, Part I 10 51-58
Memoirs, Part II 34 37-44
Salford Witness to an Execution 15 75-80
The politics of pauperism in Salford in the 1920s. 33 27-36
John Saville Obituary 34 50
Seafarers Jack Afloat and Jack Ashore. The work and community of seafarers in the late Nineteenth Century 14 13-20
'Not all gloom and doom':  Seafaring on the Cape Mailduring Apartheid 30 12-14
Sheffield Malcolm X in Manchester and Sheffield 27 29-34
Shopworkers A Shopworker's Success 12 69-73
Short stories Old Man (A short story introduced by Ruth and Edmond Frow) 12 53-56
Two short stories on the Half-time system: Killed by Kindness and Not Passed 13 24-38
Slavery Manchester, Liverpool and slavery 32 16-22
Public History and the past:  slavery memorials in Lancaster 32 23-25
John B. Smethurst A celebration 31 33
John B. Smethurst and the North West Labour History Group 31 37
Philip Snowden Philip Snowdon's dramatic conversion to socialism in 1893: a literary examination 34 32-36
Socialism Aspects of socialism at branch level 1890-1900: some notes towards analysis 4 6-35
Class Struggle and the Industrial Revolution. (Review article of John Foster's book) 5 11-20
The Origins of the British Socialist Party 8 29-43
Social Democracy and the Labour Movement: the Social Democratic Federation in Lancashire 8 44-55
Getting back to the Land: the Daisy Colony Experiment 10 31-36
The Campaign for Democratic Socialism 1960-1964:  an Assesssment 26 15-17
Socialism / Women Women and the Social Democratic Federation: some notes on Lancashire 7 49-64
Spain Aid Spain: the People's Campaign. An Exhibition at the Pump House, People's History Museum, Manchester 21 73-79
Britons in an 'Un-British' war: Domestic Newspapers and the participation of UK Nationals in the Spanish Civil War 22 20-47
Archive Note II: Rebels against the Rebels 22 78-81
Northern England Dreams in Republican Spain 27 80-81
Sport Football and Society in the North West 1919-1939 24 3-14
Working Class Women and Rounders in Interwar Britain 24 15-29
'Wicked Women from Wigan and Other Tales': Licentious Leisure and the Social Control of Working Class Women in Wigan and St. Helens, 1914-1930 24 30-43
Post-war Lancastrian Football Heroes: Finney, Lofthouse and Douglas 24 44-54
MUFC fans, Sex and Violence: a 'preferred' Postmodern Past 24 55-69
Stacey, Enid / Women Enid Stacey 7 41-48
Stalybridge Turbulent Times in Stalybridge 18 58
Joseph Rayner Stephens 'Joseph Rayner Stephens has not fared well at the hands of the Historians':  a Reappraisal on the Bicentenary of his birth 30 17-20
Strikes Trade Unions and Technical Change: The Automatic Loom Strike, 1908 6 43-55
1911: The Great Unrest comes to Horwich 9 14-24
In Defence of the 'Agitator': The Role of Leaders and Activists in Industrial Disputes - the Case of Sefton Unison 25 25-47
The 1945 Manchester Waterproof Clothing Workers' Strike:  achieving success without traditional trade union support 29 26-29
Sweated industries An End to Sweating? Liverpool's Sweated Workers and Legislation 1870-1914 21 3-29
Sweden History has got a voice: an oral history project in Sweden 18 21-26
Tameside Recording History: the Tameside Workers' Strike For Better Pay and Conditions 24 73
Tameside oral history project 32 36
Television Television Drama and Social Change:  Jim Allen in the 1960s 26 30-32
Theatre / Women Working Women in North West Drama 17 24-32
Ellen Tooley 'The power to get things changed'!:  Ellen Tooley, Eccles first woman councillor 33 20-26
Tourism Radical tourism 31 38-39
Trade Unions Trade Union Emblems 3 29-31
Trades Unionism in the 1860s 13 67-74
Foundation and Early Struggles: Trade Unionism among seamen and dockers, 1887-1914 14 40-47
Trade Unions / Women Women's Work and Trade Unionism in Liverpool, 1890-1914 7 65-83
Bill Turner Obituary 34 50
Jack Washington Obituary. John (Jack) Edward Washington 33 43
Voices Magazine Voices Magazine:  a Cultural History 34 25-31
Wigan Why the People of Wigan should feel proud to be associated with George Orwell 22 2-19
Albert Williams Obituary 34 50
Barry Williams With panache and probity:  an evaluation of Barry Williams' role in the progressive movement 31 49-53
Women Women's History 7 4-16
Looking for Mrs. Cooper 7 17-39
Early Women Office Workers 12 3-15
No Place for a Lady: How the Unions tried to keep women out of office - a case study of Alice Foley 12 17-23
An Independent Voice. Lisbeth Simm and Women's Labour Representation in the North West, 1906-14 12 79-86
The Suffragettes in Lancaster: a classroom study 12 87-91
A House for Women's History: Possibilities and Problems 12 92-94
Ruth Frow interviewed 13 3-12
A Tale of Two Centres 17 110-112
A Woman's Place was in her Union 17 113-119
Gender, Class and Political Activism in the North West: Labour Women's Organisation in the 1970s 27 35-42
Mary Gawthorpe:  a Suffragette in America 28 12-13
'Dear Sisters of the Earth':  The Public Voice of Manchester Women at the time of Peterloo 28 14-21
Eva Gore-Booth 28 22-28
'We Won't Pay' – Women's Struggle on Tower Hill (a new housing estate near Liverpool) 28 29-35
'Was there another England?'  Joan Littlewood in Manchester 28 36-41
'Smile Please!' Women Workers' Place in North West Photography 1850-1950 28 42-48
The March of the Women. CPGB pamphlet published in 1928 28 49-55
The Women's Peace Crusade in Manchester:  June-September 1917 28 56-60
The Complete Text of Hannah 28 62-66
'A Democracy of Working Women' – The Women's Cooperative Guild 28 67-80
Voices, Votes and Mock Turtle Soup:  Liverpool's Socialist Women, 1893-1914 29 6-11
'The power to get things changed'!:  Ellen Tooley, Eccles first woman councillor 33 20-2q6
Workers' Education Association Workers' Education in a Global Economy: A Euro-WEA Conference Report 21 83-86
Working Class Movement Library The Working Class Movement Library - Once Removed 13 13-23
A New Role for the Crescent 13 62-66
News - 2006 31 55
Recent Acquisitions to the Working Class Movement Library 21 80-82
Working Men's Associations Working Men's Associations: Furnivall's Collection of Pamphlets 19 27-30
Youth hostel Cross-party support to save historic youth hostel 32 32-34