Tracts and pamphlets

19th-century political satire from the
tracts collection

The collection comprises approximately 7,000 items in 900 volumes, which cover a widely varying range of subjects, genres and topics: sermons, tracts, and numerous examples of political pamphleteering and polemics mainly centred upon the disturbances of the early nineteenth-century. Many of the items are of local origin, confirming Manchester's role as the major centre for printing outside London and also the central role of the region in the political and social unrest of the first half of the nineteenth century.

  
Images from the tract and pamphlet collection

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