North Staffordshire History
Tales from the Potteries, Newcastle and the Staffordshire Moorlands
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25 August 2023
The Lamppost of Beauty
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On 11 June 1956, 46 year old Arnold Machin and his 34 year old wife Pat of number 15 The Villas, Stoke, took a stand against the encroachmen...
14 January 2021
The Battle of Burslem
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Thomas Cooper, the Chartist whose fiery speeches sparked the riots. In 1842, a prolonged miner's strike had crippled the Staffordshire P...
16 November 2020
A Disposition to Riot
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Between 1799 and 1801 food riots, brought on by scarcity and high prices which in turn had been caused by poor harvests and the effects of N...
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