Historic England has allocated £35,000 in funding to two projects, focused on the working-class history of two East ...

Lancashire’s proud working class heritage is to be celebrated with two new projects in iconic locations. Historic England has ...

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 ...

They flew from employers’ buildings in Liverpool and in Manchester. The port of Liverpool and the mills of Lancashire were the destinations for 75 per cent of the cotton produced in the Confederate ...

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 ...

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.