2019

A feature where someone from the Library chooses an interesting object, book or document from the Library collection, which is displayed in the hall of the Library. Here are a selection from 2019. Click on the links to see more information.

November A Peterloo letter

A letter written in Manchester on the very day the Peterloo Massacre took place – 16 August 1819.

September Cicely Hamilton, How the vote was won

A wonderfully illustrated pamphlet, written by playwright, novelist, actor, suffragist and peace campaigner Cicely Hamilton, which was bought by the Library earlier this year thanks to a National Lottery Heritage Fund Collecting Cultures grant.

July 'Those who would be free, themselves must strike the blow'

A news release from January 1910 from the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), drawing attention to the release from prison in Preston of Nurse Violet Bryant.

May 'Power was personal' - political trials in an age of revolutions

A sketch in a book which offers a transcript of a trial of 38 radical Mancunians, which took place at Lancaster Assizes in August 1812.

April   Miners' nystagmus

Marking Workers' Memorial Day on 28 April with a focus on a disease which was due at least in part to deficient lighting in the mines.

February   Foodship for Spain flyers and coupons from the 1930s

Marking 80 years from the exhibition of Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica at a car showroom in Manchester, where it was on display from 1 to 15 February.