ABSTRACT
Philip snowden had quite an effect on Blackburn when he first campaigned in the town, then the capital of the textile industry, in 1900. According to the journalist A.G. Gardiner, the young Snowden, ‘a pallid and hatchet-faced young man’, caused such a stir that his ‘name was on every lip, his sayings ran like rumour through the weaving sheds and the street’.
