Thomas Paine and 'Rights of Man'
Thomas Paine, a staymaker's son, was born in 1737 in the small country town of Thetford in Norfolk. He attended the local school until he was twelve and left...
This exhibition celebrates the first step that parliament took, one hundred years ago, towards all adult women finally gaining the parliamentary franchise (right to vote). Most accounts of the campaign that led up to this achievement have been constantly misinterpreted and distorted. This account draws on the collections in......
A guest exhibition exploring the ongoing power of Pablo Picasso’s iconic 1937 painting Guernica through a display of 21st century reworkings from across the globe. All are welcome to attend the exhibition launch evening – Thursday 31 January 6pm. The curator of the exhibition, Nicola Ashmore, will also give an illustrated talk on......
Glyn states: ‘It is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with Communist politics. Why, then, has there been no extended examination of this striking juncture of dissident sex and socialism?’ His talk to us explores this question, among others, aiming to......
An afternoon focussed on a project bringing to life the last 100 years of women’s protest, discussing the changing nature of women’s activism and some of the more significant protest sites in the North. Remembering Resistance: a Century of Women’s Protest in the North of England is a Heritage......
Through traditional songs and ballads, Townsend Productions reveal the story of the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath in the West Midlands. In 1910 they began a successful ten-week strike, led by charismatic union campaigner Mary Macarthur, to more than double their earnings and establish the principle of a national......
The curator of the Library’s current exhibition gives an illustrated talk that explores Picasso's Guernica and its remakings as a call to action, pushing back at those in power who choose to act to the detriment of civilians. This is the first in the new series of Invisible Histories talks. ......
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