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Wedgwood For Ever!! An 1832 election notice from the Enoch Wood scrapbook

In 1832 Josiah Wedgwood was to stand for election in Newcastle-under-Lyme. His supporters in Hanley and Shelton proposed to gather in the Market Square, wearing laurel, at 5pm on 27 April. From ...

Women picketing at Florence Colliery, Longton.

This photograph, taken during the 1984 - 1985 miner's strike, shows an early morning picket line at Florence Colliery in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Women from mining families were very active during the ...