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On this 198th anniversary we are keen to share again Oliver Lomax's poem, written last year after he came in to the Library to read some of our eye-witness accounts of the Peterloo Massacre: Peterloo I beg you will endeavour to preserve the most perfect silence. Put your hand...
As part of our Voting for Change project, the Library has just made an exciting joint purchase with the People's History Museum. It's a (much-folded!) serviette produced as a souvenir of the huge Votes for Women demonstration and rally held in London on 18 June 1910. It shows the...
Artist James Bloomfield has undertaken a research residency at Salford Museum & Art Gallery and the Working Class Movement Library. Credit: James Bloomfield The outcome of this research, which was funded by the Arts Council, is the creation of art installation In Service 1918-2017 which consists of 226 commemorative...
An entry in an autograph album recently acquired by WCML, 'A Song of the Simple Life' - in which a poor working man is addressed by a 'wicked socialist' who tries to explain how he is being exploited by his aristocratic landlord and his boss 'Mr C'. His wife...
On Wednesday 19 July at 2pm we welcome Dave Randall to the Library to talk about his new book. Here, to whet your appetites, blog volunteer Heidi reviews it for us: Book Review – Sound system: the political power of music by Dave Randall Published by Pluto Press, 2017....
