Articles relating to: gangs
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.
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’.
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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