Obituaries of Ruth Frow, Yoshiteru Takei, Douglas Farnie; Capital ownership, capital structure and capital markets: financial constraints and the decline of the Lancashire textile industry c1880-c1965; Lancashire and the New Zealand market in the mid 20th century: cotton, glass and locomotives; Freemasonry and civic identity: municipal politics, business and the rise of Blackpool from the 1850s to the 1st World War; Brewing in the North West, 1840-1914: sowing the seeds of service-sector management?; 'An absorbing epic'? The development of toy-manufacturing in the North West c1851-1931; Working on the frontiers of risk: the insurance industry in north-west England since 1700; Lancashire's highway men: the business community and road improvements during the industrial revolution; Straws in the wind: the local and regional roots of an occupational disease epidemic; 'From the cradle to the grave': the National Co-operative Archive; review of King Cotton: a tribute to Douglas A. Farnie.