Gandhi therefore took the time to see what conditions were like for Lancashire cotton workers. As ever, Gandhi was in sympathy with the working people, though not so with the mill-owners.

A century ago Lancashire contained a population ... or other possible causes -- our mills would be stopped for want of cotton, employers would be ruined, and famine would stalk abroad among ...

Boycotting slavery in confederate states during the American civil war cost the workers dearly — 60 per cent of Lancashire’s cotton mills shut down. In December 1862 they wrote to US president Abraham ...

Lancashire County Council has recommended ... this building has never been associated with the cotton industry and was never ...

Arkwright made a fortune of about £30m in today's money by building & licensing mills to spin cotton with these machinesRichard ... in mills in Derbyshire and Lancashire and powered by ...