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Mary Barton (1964)

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United Kingdom
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How it feels

A working class family in 1840s Manchester struggles with poverty and injustice. A father becomes entangled in the labor movement while his daughter Mary navigates love and loss.

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What happens

Mary Barton is a British historical television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in 1964. It is based on the 1848 novel of the same title by Elizabeth Gaskell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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