At Four Fools folk festival this June, Sid Calderbank, myself, and a few others performed a show called "The Lancashire Cotton Famine. This was one of the darkest periods in the history of the Lancashire cotton industry and was brought about during the American Civil war by the Yankees blockading the southern ports of America thus preventing cotton being shipped to Lancashire. For four years between 1861 and 1865 Lancashire nearly starved to death.
The story of how the cotton famine started and how Lancashire coped with it was told over 100 minutes at Four Fools. The performance was recorded by Chris Harvey of Cock Robin Music and is now available on a double CD for £11 inc p+p from me. See this page on my website for more details of the CD and other shows that we have performed over the years at Four Fools

Cheers
Mark