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In collaboration with the Open University, the Regional Heritage Centre hosts a special event commemorating 200 years since the 1826 Lancashire handloom weavers uprising with additional commemorative activities, including musical performances and an art exhibition ongoing throughout the afternoon.

Lancashire weavers, driven by poverty and the threat to their livelihood posed by industrialisation, rose up in protest, but their civil unrest ended in violence and a tragic loss of life. As part of a broader programme of activities to by the Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee to commemorate the Weavers, we'll be in the Lancaster Castle Suite with a panel of expert speakers looking at the context of these troubling events, sifting the historical record and exploring differing interpretations.

Speakers include Dr Colin Penny (historian and museum manager Lancaster Castle), Dr David Scott (Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee/Open University), and Joseph Cozens (The National Archives). During the afternoon, participants will be free to explore a special exhibition on view in the Castle’s C Wing as well as experience commemorative musical performances taking place in town and on various stages.