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Remembering the 1826 Weavers Uprising in East Lancashire

Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee · Manchester Histories · 2022

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This local history keeps the 1826 uprising attached to the places and people who lived it: hand-loom weavers facing hunger, falling wages and machines that changed the value of their work almost overnight.

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Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee. 'Remembering the 1826 Weavers Uprising in East Lancashire.' Manchester Histories, 2022.