Voting for Change - a Collecting Cultures project
WCML and the People's History Museum/Labour History Archive (PHM) were successful as a partnership in getting a ‘Collecting Cultures’ grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). This has given...
A guest exhibition about Sylvia Pankhurst and her companion, Silvio Corio, illustrating the lifelong activities of this couple in spearheading campaigns centred on social justice, human rights and anti-fascism. Silvio was an Italian revolutionary who arrived in London in 1900 after fleeing his country having been involved in anarchist......
Sally Groves, author of the book Trico: a victory to remember, was the Publicity Officer on the Trico Strike Committee and will talk about the 1976 21-week equal pay strike at the Trico Folberth factory in Brentford. This took place in the context of Barbara Castle’s Equal Pay Act......
The Working Class Movement Library is proud to present another in its series of Radical Readings fundraising events. Actors Carla Henry, Mike Joyce, Gerard Kearns, Maxine Peake and James Quinn are booked to appear in an afternoon of prose, poetry and song. This event aims to give context, and......
Rob’s talk will focus on Dixon’s contribution to the radical campaign for democracy, in the aftermath of Peterloo, as well as to a range of other causes aimed at improving working class life in Victorian Manchester. This is part of the series of Invisible Histories talks. Admission free; all......
The editors of a new anthology of radical writings for children, Reading and rebellion, talk about researching and selecting examples of the kinds of materials that, between the years 1900 to 1960, left wing and progressive parents wanted their children to read. Admission free. Copies of the book will......
Joe Darlington will talk about his recent book, British terrorist novels of the 1970s. The 1970s saw a boom in novels, both popular and literary, with terrorists as their main characters. By placing the novels in their historical and political context, this talk explores the broad range of terrorist......
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