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Victorian Journalism
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Discovering the Writing of Alice Miller
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April 30, 2024
The Victorian Printing Press
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April 22, 2024
Wyllard’s Weird by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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April 18, 2024
Eagley Mills, Bolton
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April 23, 2023
Arthur Conan Doyle: Letters of Finance from 1897-1899
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April 19, 2023
Arthur Conan Doyle: The Great Brown-Pericord Motor
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March 27, 2023
The Lost Work of Alice Miller
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March 23, 2023
William Harrison Ainsworth, Guy Fawkes: or, The Gunpowder Treason
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March 20, 2023
Fred Alston: I Am a Life Member
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May 17, 2022
Miss Nobody by Ethel Carnie
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May 15, 2022
Walt Whitman – To Be or Not to Be a Journalist
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May 9, 2022
Eagle Street College
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April 10, 2022
Eva Peters of Bolton
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April 5, 2022
Lost Opportunities: The Original Parish Church and the Phantom Avenue
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April 2, 2022
The Lancashire Authors’ Association & James Orchard Halliwell’s Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms
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March 31, 2022
The Tragedy of the Pendle Witches
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March 27, 2022
The Danes in Lancashire: St Peter’s Parish Church, Bolton
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March 24, 2022
Victorian Years, Bolton 1850-1860 by Raymond Hargreaves
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March 22, 2022
The Poetry of Edna Baron
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July 13, 2021
My Love by Eliza Lynn Linton
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June 11, 2021
W.F. Tillotson and John Maxwell
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June 10, 2021
In the Name of Liberty by Florence Marryat
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May 24, 2021
For Cash Only by James Payn
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May 19, 2021
W.F. Tillotson and the Athenaeum Letters
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May 18, 2021
The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
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May 16, 2021
Fighting the Air by Florence Marryat
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May 13, 2021
Religious criticism of Sensation Fiction in the Victorian era
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May 12, 2021
The Readership of the Bolton Weekly Journal
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May 11, 2021
William Frederic Tillotson
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May 10, 2021
Sir Thomas Barlow: Physician to Queen Victoria & Scurvy Expert
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May 7, 2021
Fred Dibnah (MBE): An Honorary Bolton Victorian
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May 6, 2021
The Lasses of Leverhouse by Jessie Fothergill
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May 4, 2021
The Three Recruits, and the Girls They Left Behind Them by Joseph Hatton
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May 1, 2021
A Changed Man by Thomas Hardy
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April 30, 2021
Tie and Trick: A Melodramatic Story by Hawley Smart
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April 28, 2021
W.F. Tillotson and Technology
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April 27, 2021
Rivington Terraced Gardens
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April 26, 2021
Shades of Thomas Moran: From Bolton to the Wild Rocky Mountains
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April 23, 2021
Susan Isaacs: A Victorian Educational Pioneer
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April 22, 2021
Great Porter Square: A Mystery by Benjamin Leopold Farjeon
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April 21, 2021
Wooers and Winners by Isabella Banks
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April 20, 2021
Madame: A Novel by Frank Lee Benedict
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April 18, 2021
Tillotson’s Fiction Bureau
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April 15, 2021
William Hesketh Lever: The first Viscount Leverhulme
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April 13, 2021
From Great Lever to Great Architectural Creations: Dr Charles Henry Holden
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April 6, 2021
Quite True by Dora Russell
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April 2, 2021
Captain Arthur Rostron and his Titanic Rescue
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March 30, 2021
Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins
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March 26, 2021
Her Father’s Name by Florence Marryat
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March 25, 2021
A Nod to Dr Samuel Taylor Chadwick (1809-1876)
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March 22, 2021
Jacobi’s Wife by Adeline Sergeant
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March 19, 2021
Colonel Quaritch V.C.: A Tale of Country Life by H. Rider Haggard
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March 18, 2021
Taken at the Flood by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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March 17, 2021
The Winter Hill Mass Trespass: Zoom Meeting
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March 16, 2021
The Winter Hill Mass Trespass, 1896
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June 8, 2020
Whitman 200: Whitman Walk
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April 12, 2020
Whitman 200: You tides with ceaseless swell
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April 12, 2020
Whitman 200: Memories
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April 12, 2020
Whitman 200: A woman waits for me
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February 17, 2020
Whitman 200: Had I the choice
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February 12, 2020
Whitman 200: Song of myself
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February 12, 2020
Whitman 200: After the dazzle of day
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February 9, 2020
Whitman and the Wonder Women
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