In Greater Manchester
- How money from slavery made Greater Manchester
- The importance of cotton in north west England
- The Lancashire cotton famine
- Smoking, drinking and the British sweet tooth
- Black presence in Britain and north west England
- Resistance and campaigns for abolition
- The bicentenary of British abolition
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How did money from slavery help develop Greater Manchester?
Washington Alcott: Bank of England, Manchester
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Washington Alcott visits the Bank of England in Manchester - the first branch established outside London. It reflects the magnitude of the transatlantic slave trade and the financial transactions that generated so much wealth in the north west of England.