Blog Archive for June 2022

In the final of four short articles, David Scott focuses on ethics and the interpretation of history, working towards the uncovering of evidence of social murder and why naming is such an important part of remembrance.

In the third of four short articles, David Scott reflects upon the inaugural remembrance walk and its dual goals of raising awareness and challenging the dominant narrative of the 1826 weavers uprising.

Between 24-28th April 2022, Dr David Scott initiated and led the inaugural ‘Weavers Uprising Remembrance Walk’, a 45 mile walk following in the footsteps of starving handloom weavers in east Lancashire 196 years ago. During this uprising handloom weavers and other working class people attempted to send a symbolic message to government about their precarious living conditions through the destruction of more than 1,100 powerlooms in the local mills. In the second of four short articles, David Scott describes the deadly events at Chatterton on the 26th of April 1826, why this tragedy has for so long been either misinterpreted or forgotten and why it is now essential that these state killings are remembered as a massacre.

Between 24-28th April 2022, Dr David Scott initiated and led the inaugural ‘Weavers Uprising Remembrance Walk’, a 45 mile walk following in the footsteps of starving handloom weavers in east Lancashire 196 years ago. During this uprising handloom weavers and other working class people attempted to send a symbolic message to government about their precarious living conditions through the destruction of more than 1,100 powerlooms in the local mills. In the first of four short articles, David Scott explains the socio-economic and political context to the 1826 weavers uprising in east Lancashire.