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Walking in the footsteps of the scuttlers
On a suitably grey Saturday, I retraced the steps of the formidable gangs of the 19th Century known as scuttlers, recently recreated by Manchester’s Royal Exchange in Rona Munro’s play of the same name.
Read the full story..Review: Scuttlers at the Royal Exchange, Manchester
Rona Munro is a playwright of some note, having won a number of major accolades including a Writers’ Guild award for best play of 2014. So it is something of a coup that she has turned her attention to recreating a seldom explored part of Manchester’s history: the original youth cult and gang culture of the ‘scuttlers’.
Read the full story..The Scuttlers of Manchester: Britain’s first youth cult
“…parents should be taught their duty, at present they seem either regardless of this or utterly afraid of correcting their children”.
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