Phil Benson
65 books
Modern (19th C)
439
Francis Archibald Bruton - Three Accounts of Peterloo
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop...
2 hours 8 minutes
*Non-fiction
428
Anonymous - Criminal Manchester: Experiences of a Special Correspondent
Follow the Manchester Evening News 'special correspondent' and his guide — recently back from a 'seven stretch' — as they take you on a tour through the dimly lit quarters of late 19th-century criminal Manchester.-...
2 hours 7 minutes
History
452
John Leland - Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543
John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is made up of Leland's notebooks, which were first published in the 18th century,...
2 hours 1 minute
Single author
428
Benjamin Stott - Songs for the Millions, and other poems
Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the Millions, a suite of seventeen short poems in which Stott experimented with...
1 hour 50 minutes
Poetry
447
Edwin Waugh - Poems and Songs in the Lancashire Dialect
A selection of poems in the Lancashire dialect by the foremost exponent of the form. A printer by training, Edwin Waugh left his trade for secretarial work and began his literary career in 1852. His first dialect...
1 hour 45 minutes
Sonnets
460
William Wordsworth - River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets
Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 25 miles through varied scenery before disappearing into the sands between...
1 hour 15 minutes
