The Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine (1861-65)

Economic and Social History, History

Tags

19th-centuryamerican-civil-warclasspoetry

Dataset type

audio text

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Description

This database brings together for the first time poems written in response to the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. They are presented with commentary, audio recitations and musical performances. The crisis was caused by the American Civil War and, as well as poems from British local newspapers, poems published in America are included commenting on the relationship between the US, Britain, cotton, and slavery.

Authors

Simon Rennie (Pi), Brian Maidment (Co-investigator), Ruth Mather (Researcher), Richard Holding (Developer), Digital Humanities Data Support Officer: Eva Bodenschatz
Digital Humanities Documentation and Archives Administration: Hannah Petrie
Head of Digital Humanities: Gary Stringer
Research Fellows in Digital Humanities: Charlotte Tupman (Other), Elizabeth Williamson (Other)

Affiliation

University of Exeter (Lead Research Organisation), National Trust, Manchester Literature Festival, Lancashire County Council, Chetham's Library, Faustus, Working Class Movement Library, Jennifer Reid, Elizabeth Gaskell's House, The Portico Library