Ewan MacColl
Ewan MacColl will be known to most people as a songwriter and singer, but he was also of significant influence in the worlds of theatre and radio broadcasting. He...
To Make That Future Now! - 150 years of the Manchester and Salford Trades Council - exhibition. For 150 years the Trades Council has fought, not only for socialism and trade union rights, but also against injustices such as poverty, discrimination and unemployment - and, as two separate institutions......
Democracy may be a right, but too often in the world it is a privilege. As part of the Library's joint project with the People’s History Museum, Voting for Change, you can come and see some of the exciting newly acquired objects that help both organisations better tell the history......
The Library is marking Heritage Open Days 2016 with 'behind-the-scenes' tours on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 September at 2pm. Book in advance via enquiries wcml.org.uk Heritage Open Days is the country’s largest heritage festival with over 4,600 events, around 40,000 volunteers and some three million visitors taking part......
Talk by Granville Williams. A new book from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, edited by Granville, marks the end of an era in coal mining in the UK and highlights how the year-long struggle by the miners in defence of jobs and communities still resonates today. It......
A One-Day Public Conference Keynote Speakers: Professor Sheila Rowbotham, Manchester University, UK Professor Karen Hunt, Keele University, UK The decades spanning the turn of the twentieth century saw an upsurge in female activism as women began to organise themselves into trade unions, take part in the socialist debates on......
Talk by Ray Physick. Organisations linked to the international worker sport movement responded to an invitation from the Comité Organizador de la Olimpiada Popular (COOP) to take part in an alternative Olympics, the Olimpiada Popular, in Barcelona in July 1936. It is estimated that some 10,000 athletes and 25,000......
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