Up The Rachde Kronikul: Delving into Dialect Newspapers

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Over at the Co-operative Heritage Trust one of the volunteers – Georgia Scholes has been working on the short-lived publication named ‘The Rachde Kronikul un Workin Mon’s Lantrun’, (The Rochdale Chronicle and Working Man’s Lantern). It was written in a Rochdale dialect and published between 1852-1853.

Read about her fascinating discoveries, Radical Printers, Georgia’s work digitising them and check out the flipbook on the CHT blog below.