A listener who went to school in Lancashire also asked us about Gandhi's visit to Darwen near Blackburn. As part of its encouragement of civil disobedience and non co-operation with Britain ...

John S. Clarke's great nephew, John Clarke, writes below how a boy from Tyneside rubbed shoulders with iconic figures from history, including the man who freed India from colonial rule and the archite ...

Mahatma Gandhi once stayed in a guest house in the village when he visited Lancashire in 1931. The well-known figure visited the county's mill towns amidst the heart of the English textile ...