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25 July 2026
1:00 pm to 3:00 am
All ages welcome
Free
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Activism
History
Music
Poetry
Political
The Sun Inn Poets
Jennifer Reid is a performer of Victorian Industrial Revolution work song in the Lancashire dialect and from this lofty perch she wants to share ideas and etymologies of folklore, ritual, folk music and dancing.
Can we try and unknot this matted web?
She will share a basic working history of broadside ballads, the music hall, working class life in the 19thC onto Luddites/Captain Swing then how print culture began to give working people a voice and how now it may be taking it away.
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