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 ...

During the first half of the 20th century, factories in Lancashire spun threads and churned out vast quantities of woven cloths using raw cotton imported from the United States. The output was such ...

Jim Atherton, who lived all his life in Darwen, passed away last month at the age of 90 from heart failure and pneumonia. Mr Atherton, who had two children, five grandchildren and three great ...

DIALECT poet, songwriter, scriptwriter, artist, playwright or amateur historian - call him what you want, but Ernest Ford was good at it. The popular Westhoughton author and poet died, aged 76, this ...

New To Radio 4 Extra. Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Tongue and Talk – The Dialect Poets with actor and writer Catherine Harvey in Lancashire. Actor and writer ...

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 ...