Anthony Webster is Head of History in the School of Humanities and Social Science at Liverpool John Moores UniversityAlyson Brown is Reader in History int he Department of English and History at Edge Hill UniversityLinda Shaw is Vice Principal – Research and International at The Co-operative CollegeDavid Stewart is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Education and Social Science at the University of Central LancashireJohn K. Walton is Ikerbasque Research Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country, Bilbao

• 1. Co-operativism meets city ethics: The 1997 Lanica take-over bid for CWS. 2. Values and vocation: Educating the Co-operative workforce, 1918–1939. 3. International perspectives on Co-operative education. 4. Co-operative education in Britain during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Context, identity and learning.5. Beyond a fair price. 6. Negotiating consumer and producer interests – a challenge for the co-op and fair trade. 7. ‘A party within a party’? The Co-operative Party-Labour Party alliance and the formation of the Social Democratic Party, 1974-81. 8. The creation of new entities: Stakeholders and hareholders in 19th century Italian co-operatives. 9. Co-operatives and nation-building in post apartheid South Africa: Contradictions and challenges. 10. Community, individuality and co-operation: The centrality of values. 11. An alternative co-operative tradition: The Basque co-operatives of mondragón. 12. ‘A co-operative of intellectuals’: the encounter between co-operative values and urban planning. An Italian case study. 13.Government to governance: the challenge of co-operative revival in India.14. Minding the gaap: Co-operative responses to the global convergence of accounting standards and practice. 15. Resting on laurels? Examining the resilience of co-operative values in times of calm and crisis. 16. Shared visions of co-operation at a time of crisis: The gung ho story in china’s anti-Japanese resistance