Trade unions
We hold a large collection of trade union material from the 1820s onwards including minutes, rule books, badges and banners.Click here to find out more...
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We hold a large collection of trade union material from the 1820s onwards including minutes, rule books, badges and banners.Click here to find out more...
Thomas Paine publishes 'Rights of man'
Irish Rebellion
Peterloo
Tolpuddle
Rochdale Pioneers
Kennington Common Chartist meeting
'Manchester Martyrs' executed
First meeting of TUC
Fall of the Paris Commune
Foundation of the Independent Labour Party
Cat and Mouse Act
First Labour government
General Strike
Red Megaphones first performance
Kinder Scout mass trespass
Spanish Civil War
Nationalisation of the coal industry
Birth of the NHS
Hungarian uprising
Aldermaston marches and birth of CND
Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
Grunwick dispute
Falklands War
Miners' strike
Nelson Mandela's release from prison
Good Friday agreement
Introduction of national minimum wage
Stop the War campaign
To maintain the momentum of the huge increases in usage of the Library over the last few years, we need to raise an extra £86,000 each year.
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As we remember Salford's Battle of Bexley Square on 1 October 1931 and its aftermath
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Trace the key events leading up to the march, and hear more about what happened on the day itself, by following tweets from @wcmlibrary which use the hashtag #BexleySquare
Every month a volunteer will choose an interesting object, book or document from the Library collection, which will be displayed in the Library's hall exhibition.
This month's object is Jubilee Chimp, a pamphlet produced by the National Unemployed Workers Movement to remember their march in Salford on 1 October 1931 which ended in a charge by mounted police. This event is remembered as the Battle of Bexley Square
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