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8 hidden gems in and around Manchester city centre. Historic buildings with rare collections, displays, exhibitions and events... The Working Class Movement Library is one of eight museums, libraries...
A travelling exhibition from the TUC Library will explore one of the most important – and yet one of the least examined – parts of the international workers’ movement. Exhibitions are open Wed-Fri 1-5pm, and the first Sat of most months 10am-4pm. ...
We mark the centenary of Marie Stopes’s controversial Married love, first published on 26 March 1918, with a talk and readings from her work by Clare Debenham. Marie Stopes was the first woman science lecturer appointed to the University of Manchester. She was a reluctant Mancunian although Manchester featured......
As part of our Voting for Change project with the People’s History Museum, you can come and see some of the exciting newly acquired objects that help both organisations better tell the history of the fight for the vote. The focus will be Chartism and its demands for political......
To coincide with the anniversary of The National Blind March and a centenary of a number of women getting the vote, WCML welcomes contributors from the Comma Press anthology Protest: stories of resistance, twenty stories by twenty authors which reimagine key moments of British history from 1381 to the......
Marking Workers’ Memorial Day, a talk by Geofrey Tweedale. The devastating legacy of asbestos will be with us for many years to come; yet the dangers of the mineral have been recognised for over a century. The historical record shows that for decades government, industry, and medicine endorsed the......
In 1868 at the Mechanics' Institute in Manchester a meeting took place that became the first successful attempt to bring together the trades unions. This exhibition celebrates 150 years of the Trades Union Congress and looks at the continuing need for unions now. And on Thursday 17 May from......
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