Dr Paul O'Leary is a Professor in the Department of History and Welsh History, Aberystwyth University. He is joint editor of the Welsh History Review.

• Introduction Chapter 1 Street Processions and Ritual in the Victorian Town Chapter 2 Town and Region: the Urban Context Chapter 3 Processions, Protest and Stability Chapter 4 Ordering the Streets: Friendly Society Processions Chapter 5 Sobering the Streets: Temperance and Teetotal Processions Chapter 6 Sacralizing the Streets: Religion and Urban Space Chapter 7 Diversity on the Streets: Corpus Christi and the Salvation Army in the 1870s Conclusion

This volume is the first major investigation of processional activity in urban South Wales. It brings to light material which will be new to readers and it offers a refreshing and sometimes challenging new perspective on working-class culture in nineteenth-century South Wales. This book will no doubt become an important reference point, both for urban historians and for readers interested in modern Wales.