It's 151 years since the death of Samuel Bamford, the weaver and Radical leader who was arrested at Peterloo.
Which reminds me that you can watch Manchester Histories' March salon, where Diane Duffy and Robert Poole discussed the work of Mrs Gaskell and Bamford himself, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Xpr0NQKkA&t=35s
(if you want to skip to the bit where Robert is discussing Bamford, it starts at 19.40 minutes!)
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