Francis Archibald Bruton

Lancashire

Read by Phil Benson


Francis Archibald Bruton



The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…

The Story of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton



On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the me…

Three Accounts of Peterloo

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Francis Archibald Bruton



A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewi…