Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita of Cultural Sociology at the University of ManchesterMike Savage is Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics

• 1. Manchester: city of culture – Mike Savage and Janet Wolff2. Calico connections: science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester – Janet Wolff3. Counting the coppers: John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens – Michael Powell and Terry Wyke4. Manufacturing the Renaissance: modern merchant princes and the Manchester Dante Society – Stephen J. Milner5. The image of a well-ordered city: nineteenth-century Manchester theatre architecture and the urban spectator – Viv Gardner6. ‘He saw the city and wept’: the Manchester and Salford Methodist mission 1910–60 – Angela Connolly7. A case of cosmopolitanism: the Manchester International Club – Bill Williams8. Culture, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester – Andrew Miles9. Class conflict and the myth of cultural ‘inclusion’ in modern Manchester – Selina ToddIndex

Culture in Manchester comprises nine essays which provide much evidence for the view that Manchester has not been, and is not culturally in decline. . .Most of the chapters are readable and avoid the impenetrable jargon of many essays in cultural studies.