Alice Nutter

Alice Nutter’s episode of THE MILL, Channel 4’s first factually-inspired period drama, produced by Darlow Smithson Productions was broadcast on C4 on Sun 10th Aug.
The second series focuses on the lives of the Quarry Bank mill workers between 1838 and 1842, a period of turbulent social, political and industrial change.
It’s the time of the great Chartist rallies and the birth of modern democracy, with the movement for the right for working-class men to vote sweeping the country.
But, four years after the end of the first series, the effects of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which made a distinction between ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’ poor, are starting to take hold and desperate economic migrants from the south of England are beginning to arrive at the mill in search of work.

Posted on July 28, 2014