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Matthew Stallard

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Matthew Stallard is a writer and historian of industrialisation, colonisation, and enslavement

August 2023

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    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: The bee and the ship – episode 1

    Revisited: The first episode in the Cotton Capital series explores the revelations that the Guardian’s founding editor, John Edward Taylor, and at least nine of his 11 backers had links to slavery, principally through the textile industry
    Podcast46:41

April 2023

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    Full Story
    Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

    Podcast46:20
  • A scene of Manchester cotton mill chimney's from the 1930's, with a vintage map in the background

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    Cotton Capital: how slavery made Manchester the world’s first industrial city

  • Cotton Capital podcast artwork

    Today in Focus
    Cotton Capital: the bee and the ship – examining the Guardian’s links to slavery

    Podcast46:29
  • Cotton Capital Podcast artwork. 5000x3000px, with title, with logo

    Cotton Capital
    Episode 1: The bee and the ship – podcast

    Podcast45:47

March 2023

  • TRAIL Globe

    Cotton Capital: a special investigation 2023
    The slave trade and the deep south: accounting for the Cotton capital’s human cost

    A visual exploration of how the growth of Manchester as an industrial city had a colossal human cost, the scale of which is difficult to comprehend

July 2017

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    double quotation markThe Black Country flag row shows Britain is still blind to its colonial past

    Matthew Stallard
    The region’s connection to slavery cannot be ignored, writes historian Matthew Stallard
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