In the vast history of workers’ and trade union struggles in the UK, Preston is quite often a side note. In the 20th and 21st centuries there have been writings and reflections on Red Scar Mill and ...

Edmund Gartside, the man once dubbed Lancashire’s ‘last cotton tycoon’ has died aged 84, his family has announced. The grandson of a spinner who built the Royton-based Shiloh empire, Major Gartside ...

Frank Malley’s historical fiction book, The Singing Spy, is based on the exploits of Margery Booth, a Wigan girl who left the coalfields and cotton mills of Lancashire in the 1930s to become a prima ...

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