In 1813, when John and Margaret Richardson arrived in Manchester, it was the worlds first great industrial city. To contemporaries it was an almost frightening spectacle that attracted visitors from every nation on earth. As the years passed, the Richardsons descendants became part of Disraelis "two nations," the super rich and the working class, their lives marked by stoic endeavours, love affairs, grudges, feuds, tragedies and melodramas. Here we meet thrusting entrepreneurs, black sheep, clowns and heroines, hard-won prosperity and sudden misfortune.
Author Alan Richardson qualified as a...
In 1813, when John and Margaret Richardson arrived in Manchester, it was the worlds first great industrial city. To contemporaries it was an almost fr...
