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The friendly planet: ‘Oddfellows’, networks, and the ‘British World’ c.1840–1914*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2012

Arthur Downing
Arthur Downing*
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All Souls College, Oxford, OX1 4AL, UK E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

British clubs and societies spread around the English-speaking world in the long nineteenth century. This article focuses on one particularly large friendly society, the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows (MU), which by 1913 had more than a thousand lodges around the world, especially concentrated in Australia and New Zealand. The MU spread so widely because of micro-social and macro-social forces, both of which this article investigates. It also examines the transfer of members, funds, and information between different districts of the society, and argues that such transfers may have smoothed internal and long-distance migration.

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associationsBritish Worldfriendly societiesmutualismtransnational history
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Journal of Global History , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , November 2012 , pp. 389 - 414
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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Footnotes

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Special thanks go to Deborah Oxley, Lawrence Goldman, Avner Offer, Jane Humphries, Melanie Nolan, and Donald MacRalid for support and advice. Versions of this article were presented at Northumbria University and Oxford University, and I thank the audiences for their insights. I thank the editors of this journal and two anonymous reviewers for their valuable suggestions. The archivists at the Noel Butlin Library were extremely helpful during a research trip to the Australian National University.

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