When the American Civil War cut off the cotton supply, Lancashire’s mills fell silent and thousands of operatives were thrown on relief. Writing for the Manchester Examiner and Times in 1862, Waugh visited Blackburn, Preston and other towns, sitting in sewing schools, relief offices and cottages to record how families endured.
Vivid, humane reporting by the Lancashire dialect poet, an essential source on Victorian working-class life. Download the free EPUB.