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20 June 2007

Wednesday 20 June 2007 11:00-11:30 (Radio 4 FM)


Paul Mason charts the rise and fall of the Lancashire cotton industry.

He examines how the trade changed the face of 19th-century British politics. From the Peterloo massacre to the American Civil War, he tells the story of cotton's role in winning the vote for the masses.

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