This shortform book presents key peer-reviewed research on industrial history. In selecting and contextualising this volume, the field of textile history is illumated for historians of business and economic history.

John F. Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He was the founding editor of the Journal of Industrial History.

Steven Toms is Professor of Accounting at the University of Leeds, UK.

Nicholas D. Wong is Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK.

Introduction: Volume five: contribution and key findings 1. Capital Ownership, Capital Structure and Capital Markets: Financial Constraints and Decline in the Lancashire Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1965 David Higgins and Steven Toms 2. Quiet Successes and Loud Failures: The UK Textile Industries in the Interwar Years Sue Bowden and David Higgins 3. The Decline of the UK Textile Industry: The Terminal Years 1945-2003 Allan Ormerod