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 ...

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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 ...