Click on the links below to see the full text of all Library press releases since the start of 2015
2017
5.5.17 Alun Parry plays his new album live at the Library to mark Museums at Night
2.5.17 FInd out more about Marx and Engels in a new exhibition
20.4.17 Frow Lecture 2017 - Eddie and Ruth Frow and the making of their library
16.3.17 Special showing in Salford of historic items about women's fight for the vote
8.2.17 'Thank you, Claudia' - marking International Women's Day
2016
1.12.16 ‘Our Enid’ – a long-overdue biography sees the light of day
9.11.16 Edit Wikipedia and share significant moments in British history
1.11.16 Radical readings and Salford stories with illustrious friends
21.10.16 A new Charlotte Delaney play – and you can be in the audience to hear a read-through
17.10.16 Museums at Night - singing on the stairs...
1.9.16 Invisible Histories make their autumn reappearance
26.7.16 Radical Women 1880-1914 conference
8.6.16 Democracy Drop In - come and have a read for as long as you want...
27.5.16 Fishing in the Dustbowl - a musical fundraiser
10.5.16 150 years of solidarity - new exhibition at WCML
3.5.16 A trio of films to make you think
5.4.16 Do you find yourself experiencing Luddites' nightmares?...
1.4.16 Frow Lecture 2016 - anarchism and the Spanish Civil War
26.2.16 The woman who took on the slum landlords - marking International Women's Day
17.2.16 A Salford WW1 conscientious objector's story is brought to life
11.1.16 LGBT History Month event It's Queer Up North?
2015
27.11.15 'To End All Wars' - an exhibition about those who "fought for peace" during WW1
23.11.15 The Manchester Martyrs – a unique item on display to mark the anniversary of their deaths
5.10.15 ‘The forgotten war’ – World War I in Africa
24.8.15 Invisible Histories make their autumn reappearance
18.8.15 Keir Hardie centenary conference
23.6.15 'A Hundred in One Hundred Minutes' - a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon
11.6.15 The miners’ strike remembered in images and song, thirty years on
8.6.15 ’Spirit of ’45’: from warfare to welfare, seventy years on
5.5.15 Frances O’Grady - post-election lecture on the future of the left
23.4.15 Campaigning for Corbett - an 1835 election archive
14.4.15 Ewan MacColl`s centenary to be celebrated in his home town
18.2.15 Anti-capitalism and fashion - marking International Women`s Day