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Dark tourism, darker history: exploring museums of crime

If you want to know more about your criminal ancestors, there are an increasing number of museums catering to your needs, as Nell Darby explores. Dark tourism is the act of travelling to sites that are associated with death, tragedy or crime. As such, dark tourism has been increasingly analysed by academics, drawing parallels between …

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‘Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest’ exhibition opens

People’s History Museum in Manchester has opened an exhibition that tells the story that is at the very core of its being, and which represents a watershed moment in the history of our nation’s democracy.  Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest begins with the telling of what happened on 16 August 1819, when 60,000 people gathered in …

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