Samuel Bamford and the Gaskells

We're delighted to welcome Professor Robert Poole to our October meeting (in-person and via online recording). He'll talk about the radical writer and reformer, Samuel Bamford (1788-1872), best known for his prominent role in the 1819 Peterloo demonstration in Manchester and his memoirs Passages in the Life of a Radical and Early Days. He is named in Mary Barton worked with William Gaskell and Manchester Lit and Phil on the first Lancashire dialect dictionary. The lives of these Manchester writers are linked in other ways, through Dickens, the Carlyles, and the Preston lockout (the background to North and South).

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