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  • The history of penmaking around Britain
  • Dark tourism, darker history: exploring museums of crime
  • The Liverpool to Manchester Railway
  • A visit to Liverpool’s past
  • The Battle of Preston, 1715
  • A visit to the People’s History Museum

News and data

  • Stockport Hat Works reopens
  • Showtown museum opens in Blackpool
  • King’s 300-year-old bedspread to go on show
  • ‘Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest’ exhibition opens
  • Windermere Jetty Museum opens
  • Launch of Peterloo anniversary website

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