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Another new acquisition as part of our Heritage Lottery Fund Voting for Change project... The new Reform Bills: the franchise returns and the boroughs by R Dudley Baxter was published in London in 1866 with the backdrop of another Reform Bill widening the franchise going through Parliament. It was...
NEW ACQUISITION - A treatise on the circumstances which determine the rate of wages and the condition of the labouring classes including an inquiry into the influence of combinations by J.R. McCulloch. 2nd edition, corrected and improved. London, Routledge, 1854. John Ramsey McCulloch (1789-1864) was a Scottish economist and...
As a counterpoint to the lightheartedness of our last blog post about the Manchester election broadside of 1835, here's an interesting piece about that same general election from another item in our collection - the issue of 21 February 1835 of The Poor Man's Guardian, a weekly newspaper published...
Chronicles of the Second Manchester Election. Manchester: Kiernan, printer, Garden-Street. [1835] Folio broadside, printed in two columns and written in a Biblical style with 35 numbered verses. We have been fortunate to acquire this item thanks to our Heritage Lottery Funded-project Voting for Change. This broadside, clearly of a...
Another interesting find whilst fully cataloguing our oldest books is a letter tucked into William Thom’s Rhymes and Recollections. At first sight the letter has nothing to do with William Thom as it is addressed to ‘Serf’, but interestingly it is signed by JA Gordon, who, according to the...