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3. In the Back Pages

3. In the Back Pages

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In the golden age of newspapers and print media, working-class poets spoke about their experiences of the Cotton Famine and expressed their political opinions. Ruth-Anne talks to Dr Alison Chapman from the University of Victoria and Dr Andrew Hobbs from UCLAN about Victorian periodicals and provincial presses in nineteenth-century England.


Written and presented by Ruth-Anne Walbank

Produced by Daniel Woodburn

Music by Oleksii Kaplunskyi

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