Victorian Bolton

12/11/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTXL6OrfWsw&t=11s

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03/11/2022

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Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional...

03/11/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aryB10D04jw

Professor and author Robert Douglas-Fairhurst leads us on a journey through the perfect introduction to Charles Dickens, detailing which books you should rea...

03/11/2022

https://youtu.be/5czA_L_eOp4

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03/11/2022

From the early 1830s, besides writing poetry and teaching, Whitman worked for various publications. He even founded his own newspaper – Long-Islander – a one-man show performance as a publisher, an editor, a pressman, and a distributor making home deliveries.
https://victorianbolton.org.uk/whitman-journalist

03/11/2022

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An orphan boy in 1830's London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.----------------Cast:Dickie Moore - Oliver TwistIr...

18/10/2022

Bolton Library and Museum is home to the largest collection of Walt Whitman archival material outside the United States of America. Students here at the Victorian Bolton Research Project were given the opportunity to explore these artefacts.
https://victorianbolton.org.uk/eagle-street-college

11/06/2022

Hall i' th' Wood is an early 16th-century manor house in Bolton in the historic county of Lancashire and the ceremonial county of Greater Manchester, England.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_i%27_th%27_Wood

08/06/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vF9BFuhpvs

Created by UEA Film, Media and Television students George Constantine, Jay Lawrence, Tom Watson and Dwayne Rapley.Originally shown at a Launch Showcase on 10...

08/06/2022

https://www.steamheritage.co.uk/museums-and-attractions/entry/bolton-steam-museum

The museum is on the old Atlas Mills site in Bolton and displays around 30 stationary steam engines that used to provide power in the textile mills…

07/06/2022

https://localhistories.org/a-timeline-of-bolton/

By Tim Lambert 1251 The village of Bolton is made into a town. Bolton is given a charter and is allowed to hold markets and an annual fair. 1516 Bolton Grammar School is founded. Bolton is a thriving little town. 1623 Bolton is struck by plague 1643 During the Civil War the royalists try to capt...