The so-called cotton famine threw tens of thousands of Lancashire mill workers into poverty Poems written in "forgotten" Lancashire dialects have been uncovered as part of an academic research project ...

New to 4 Extra. Poetry Extra, the series in which poet Daljit Nagra chooses highlights from 90 years of the BBC’s poetry archive. This week Daljit chooses a programme featuring dialects. Representing ...

In spring 2015 I was in the market for a new literary research project when I heard a Radio 4 “In Our Time” broadcast about the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. One of the panellists referred to ...

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Hannah Furness is Royal Editor for the Telegraph. She has been writing about the Royal family for a decade: interviewing, analysing, and reporting on the monarchy's biggest moments. Hannah Furness is ...

IT could soon become a language of the past. But proud Lancastrians are determined to preserve the special sayings and phrases unique to the county. The end of a three-year project to record the ...

THERE will be a meeting of Bolton and District Family History Society on Wednesday December 3 at 7.30pm at Bolton Cricket Club, Green Lane which includes the welcome return of Sid Calderbank who will ...

Simon Rennie from Exeter University made the discovery while trawling for "moving poetry" written about the 1861-65 cotton famine in Lancashire. People used their local language to record the poverty ...