This exhibition is now available for viewing online here. Thanks to guest curator Geoff Brown for helping to make this possible. In August 1969 political and sectarian unrest saw barricades erected in Belfast’s Falls Road and British troops on the streets. People’s Democracy, a radical student movement, provided political direction......
In summer 2020 WCML was due to be hosting a guest exhibition to mark the centenary of an extraordinary strike in two Derbyshire villages that started during the war in 1918 and lasted for over two years. Although sadly this is no longer possible, images from the exhibition are now available......
We were pleased to welcome from Toronto Maria Bloshteyn to talk to us about a new anthology of poetry - this event was live-streamed and has now been uploaded to the Library's YouTube channel. On 1 August Smokestack Books is publishing Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War, a 500-page anthology edited by Maria......
This talk was live-streamed - you can click to a video recording on the Library YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/V7HaxW9UKFw. Margaret Llewelyn Davies, who led the Women’s Co-operative Guild between 1889 and 1921, was a dedicated Co-operator, feminist and socialist. Her vision played a crucial part in developing the Guild into a major......
This talk was live-streamed on 29 July and a recording can now be found on the Library's YouTube channel at https://youtu.be/YjjyoEp79q8. We welcomed Liz Payne, Chair of the Communist Party, to talk to us about a new book, Red lives: communists and the struggle for socialism, which contains the biographies of......
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