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Peter Snow presents a series in which each programme's stories come from the pages of an archive newspaper.
4: The Manchester Times - 28 March 1829
The Duke of Wellington fights a duel on Battersea Fields-when Prime Minister!; engineers float the new Liverpool to Manchester railway on a bog; and Snow visits the Rusholme Gallery of Costume to examine the tight-waisted 1820s Corset. ProducerAndrew Green

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