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...
Liverpool Labour Police Striker - the William Smith Story A short film with Q&A with Director Simon Partridge Pieced together through extensive research, this short independent film tells about Liverpool in the 1920s and particularly the events around the 1919 police strike, in which 954 policemen were sacked when...
The ninth annual Frow Lecture, in honour of the Library's founders, will be given by Shirin Hirsch, Research Fellow in History, University of Wolverhampton, and is entitled In the shadow of Enoch Powell: race, class and resistance. It is fifty years since Enoch Powell made his ‘Rivers of Blood’...
Students from the University’s School of Arts and Media take over the Library space with theatre performances and presentations inspired by archival materials. Drop in; admission free; all welcome.
Talk by Philippa Lewis. The 1970s-1990s saw a wave of new workers’ co-operatives set up. These were businesses owned and controlled by the workers, with an emphasis on fairness and shared decision making. Although developing partially from the older UK co-operative productive societies, this period of workers’ co-operatives is...
