Helmshore Mills Textile Museum in Rossendale is staying open right through the winter, giving visitors the rare chance to experience ...

The Bolton and Preston Railway's historical significance has led to several features being listed. The Black Brook viaduct, ...

The eighteenth-century cotton entrepreneur reminds us that cutting-edge knowledge often resides in brains, not books.

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Edmund Gartside, the man once dubbed Lancashire’s ‘last cotton tycoon’ has died aged 84, his family has announced. The grandson of a spinner who built the Royton-based Shiloh empire, Major Gartside ...

In the vast history of workers’ and trade union struggles in the UK, Preston is quite often a side note. In the 20th and 21st centuries there have been writings and reflections on Red Scar Mill and ...

This article revisits the idea of "cotton imperialism" in Britain, showing that metropolitan support for cotton projects in the British Empire was uneven. Using the records of the British Cotton ...