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200 years of working class movement activism
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- Giz a Job: a history of the 1981 People's March for Jobs
- Radical Readings: Revolt, Revolution and Revenge
- Library Tour
- 'That Impudent Little Party' : The Independent Labour Party 1893 - 1975
- The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
- New Radical Voices Poetry Workshop
- New Radical Voices Poetry Workshop
- Troublemaking: Why You Should Organise Your Workplace
- A Nation of Shopkeepers: The Unstoppable Rise of the Petty Bourgeoisie
- Right to Roam Film Screening
- Rambling Rebels Cyanotype Workshop
- Labour Revolt in Britain
- Radical Motherhood Digitisation Event
- Radical Motherhood Then and Now: Roundtable Discussion
- Exhibition: Capturing the Modern Backdrop: Shirley Baker Photographing Salford
- Engels Walk with Morag Rose
- Radical Rhymes
- Engels Printmaking Work-shop
- Joe Solo & Johnny Campbell Live at the WCML
- Invisible Histories Talk: Challenge to Power, Mining and Social Change in the Castlecomer Minefields
- Heritage Open Day Library Tour
- Book launch and talk: Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s and 1940s
- Exhibition: 'We Shall All Be Brothers and Sisters' the Communist Party in Britain 1920-2020
- Summer Open Days and Library Tours
- Invisible Histories talk: Growing Up Communist in the Netherlands and Britain
- Miss Nobodies - A Play About Lancashire Women; Feisty, Fierce...and Never Forgotten
- The 11th Annual Frow Lecture - Dr Katrina Navickas, 'Trespass before Mass Trespass'
- 2015 Frow Lecture - Frances O'Grady
- 'Applied Pacifism': A Fresh Look at the Role of the Women's Co-operative Guild in World War Two
- Engels Week walk - 'And did those feet really walk upon those Dark Satanic Mills?'
- Engels Lecture - Amelia Horgan, 'The place of work in socialist feminism'
- Museums at Night: Songs from Cottonopolis - the Bailey Sisters 'test the echo' at the Library
- Johnny Campbell sings Winter Hill Trespass
- Online talk by Chris Hall, 'The Nurse who became a Spy': Madge Addy's war against fascism in Spain and France
- International Women's Day talk by Joanna Williams - 'The great Miss Lydia Becker'
- Online talk by Dick Holdstock - 'Street Ballads' Role in Working People's Enfranchisement'
- Talk, 'Mary Wollstonecraft and natural history'
- Yes! Yes! UCS! - a new musical play from Townsend Productions
- Exhibition: Spirit of '45: from warfare to welfare
- Invisible Histories talk - Notoriously militant: the story of a union branch at Ford Dagenham
- Invisible Histories talk - The People: the Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010
- Invisible Histories talk - ''Red Nelson": the English working class and the making of C.L.R. James
- Ewan MacColl - his life, his words, his music
- No Redemption Songs
- A Hundred in One Hundred Minutes
- Keir Hardie centenary conference
- Francis Beckett talk on Clement Attlee
- Pat Thane talk on the 1945 welfare reforms
- Keith Flett talk - 'A history of 1945: beyond Ken Loach'
- Film screening, 'Song of the People'
- Exhibition: Guernica in Manchester re-representation
- Talk, 'Britain's early productive cooperatives, why they were forgotten and why they're relevant today'
- Nat, Sam and Ramona - the story of a Spanish Civil War photograph
- Black History Month talk, 'The forgotten war: World War I in Africa'
- Guernica in Manchester talk
- Exhibition: Protect, by Al Johnson
- Exhibition: To end all wars
- Doctor Who and the Communist: the writing career and politics of Malcolm Hulke
- Heritage Open Days tours
- Flow Salford Festival - installation by Hannah Hiett
- Salford stories and radical readings II
- Digital Women's Archive North pop-up event
- International Women's Day
- LGBT History Month event
- Rapper dance - its creation and what it meant to working communities
- Justice for Alice Wheeldon!
- Communities of resistance - patterns of dissent in Britain during the First World War
- Manchester volunteers in the Easter Rising
- Richard Milward - Luddites' Nightmares
- 7th annual Frow lecture
- Living History performance No Power on Earth
- Living History performance - No Power on Earth
Living History performance 'No Power on Earth' at Salford Museum
Fishing in the Dustbowl
Salford's Sarsaparilla Sounds
Salford's Sarsparilla Sounds
To Make That Future Now
Radical women, 1880-1914
Democracy Drop In
Talkin' 'bout that representation
Heritage Open Days 2016 - library tours
Our third mini film festival
"Organise, educate and agitate": trade unionism and office workers in Britain, 1914-39
The Olimpiada Popular of 1936 and the worker sport movement in the inter-war years
Protests and public space in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the age of radicals and the Chartists, 1789-1848
Engels, the Burns Family and the Manchester Irish
Charlotte Delaney's 'Sweet Responsibility' - first UK reading EVENT FULL
Pit props: music, international solidarity and the 1984/85 miners' strike
Alfred Evans, WW1 conscientious objector
Museums at Night - Quiet Loner and Jennifer Reid
'We Only Want the Earth'
Black History Month talk - Lou Kushnick
Voting for Change edit-a-thon
Dare Devil Rides to Jarama
Dare Devil Rides to Jarama
LGBT History Month - Julie Bindel
International Women's Day - Marika Sherwood and Peggy Mulongo
Geoff Andrews talk on James Klugmann, 'The Shadow Man'
Book launch - biography of Noah Ablett
Everyday Austerity - an exhibition
Deborah Mutch talk - 'What I mean, my dear': The Woman Worker and the male voice
Ruth Cohen talk - 'Margaret Llewelyn Davies: socialist, feminist and co-operator'
Alison Ronan talk - 'The real rebels of WW1'
Trevor Fisher talk - 'Reclaiming the Blanketeers'
Stephen Mustchin talk - Strikes, workplace occupations and 'the right to share hardship'; engineering trade unionism and the 1980 occupation at Gardner
Open Day - find out more about women's fight for the vote
Dean Kirby talk on Angel Meadow
Bruce Wilkinson - talk on three Lancastrian poets of the '60s
'We Only Want the Earth' exhibition returns
'We Only Want the Earth'
The flame still burns: the creative power of coal
The life and work of Marx and Engels - an exhibition
8th annual Frow Lecture
Alun Parry - Freedom Rider
'In Service 1918-2017' - James Bloomfield with Paul Rogers
7th annual Frow Lecture
Dave Randall talk - 'Sound System: the Political Power of Music'
'We are the lions, Mr Manager'
1917 conference - NOW FULL
Heritage Open Days 2017 - library tours
Comparing Manchester, Lancashire and Bangladeshi traditional song - talk by Jennifer Reid
Book launch - 'Citizens'. Mike Sanders in conversation with poet Ian Parks
Could Salford produce another Shelagh Delaney? Round table discussion
CANCELLED The Grunwick strike - drowning in support, starving for action: talk by Sheila Cohen
The Co-operative Party 100 years on - a reflection by Angela Whitecross
The occupation of the factories - women's resistance to factory closure in Scotland, 1981-82. Talk by Andy Clark
Brave hearts and missionary zeal - the National Federation of Women Workers 1906-21. Talk by Cathy Hunt
A people's history of the Russian Revolution - talk by Neil Faulkner
Southern Voices exhibition 'Out of the shadows: 1914-18 perspectives of colonised people'
"...the point is to change it" - celebrating Ruth and Eddie Frow EVENT NOW FULL
Censorship and the working class reader - celebrating the bicentenary of William Hone's trials
Voices of revolution
Wikipedia edit-a-thon
Peterloo - 'Living History' performance
Film screening Red October: Revolution in Russia
"The world is my country": a celebration of the life and writings of Thomas Paine, "the most valuable Englishman ever"
Exhibition: The Tolpuddle Martyrs in print
LGBT History Month - How Arena 3 saved my life
International Women's Day/Wonder Women event - Lynx Theatre's play Sylvia
Exhibition 'Labour's special relationship: connections between the British and American labour movements from the nineteenth century until today'
A tale of two Red Helens
Guest exhibition: 'Working class readers in Victorian Manchester & Salford'
Marie Stopes: reluctant Mancunian, sexual revolutionary, birth control pioneer
Protest: stories of resistance
Cover up and collusion: understanding the tragic history of asbestos
Trespassers will be celebrated - A Symposium
The Acting Class - documentary screening
'Any help possible will be given': the work of the Manchester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council 1895-1919
Radical Readings 3 - 'Suffer the little children'
Chartism Drop In Day: Ernest Jones and Chartism
Open afternoon on a Thomas Paine theme
Exhibition: The power of unity - 150 years of the TUC
Film - Liverpool Labour Police Striker, the William Smith Story
Ninth annual Frow Lecture
Capturing the heritage of the workers' co-operative movement, 1970s-1990s
The war and the workers: the labour movement and the home front during the First World War
Film - Socialists, Suffragists, Pacifists and Cyclists! The Last Clarion House
Invisible Histories digitisation project - Seeing the hidden, hearing the unheard
Salford University - Animating the Archives
TUC@150 - past, present and future
Jill Liddington 'One hand tied behind us' - 40 years on
Anne Scargill in conversation with Maxine Peake - NOW FULL
How do we get radical change? A discussion meeting
Heritage Open Days 2018
Invisible Histories talk - Five things you (possibly) might not know about the Spanish Civil War
Exhibition: Votes for women . . . or votes for ladies?
Not just 'Love on the dole': Walter Greenwood and working class writing
Invisible Histories talk - Poetry for a new era: Walt Whitman and British socialism, 1880-1914
Day conference: More than just the Pankhursts - the wider suffrage movement
Invisible Histories talk - Joseph Arch: agricultural trade unionist and MP
Townsend Productions play: The ragged trousered philanthropists
The art of suffrage propaganda - talk by Elizabeth Crawford
Forward, sister women!
MaD Theatre: Scenes from the play 'It's the wrong way to tickle Mary'
Invisible Histories talk - Ali Ronan, 'The women who said yes'
Engels Memorial Lecture - Engels before Marx, Terrell Carver
Exhibition: Guernica remakings
Online talk, 'The Manchester Free Library 1852 - for the workers, but not by the workers...'
LGBT History Month - Glyn Salton-Cox, 'Queer Communism'
International Women's Day event 'Remembering resistance: a century of women's protest in the North of England'
Radical Readings fundraiser: Those who were there - the people at Peterloo have their say
Townsend Productions - Rouse, ye women TICKETS SOLD OUT
Nicola Ashmore and Claire Hignett talks, Guernica Remakings
Tom Woodin talk 'Working class writing and publishing in the late 20th century: literature, culture and community'
Exhibition 'Sylvia and Silvio'
Katherine Connelly talk on Sylvia and Silvio
Sally Groves talk: Out on the Costa del Trico!
Rob Hargreaves talk 'Beyond Peterloo: Elijah Dixon and Manchester's forgotten reformers'
Reading and rebellion - Kim Reynolds and Jane Rosen
Joe Darlington talk - 'British terrorist novels of the 1970s'
Tenth annual Frow Lecture
Oliver James Lomax - Peterloo and other poems
James Clarke - 'The Litten Path'
Exhibition 'Peterloo: news, fake news and paranoia'
Townsend Productions: 'The ragged trousered philanthropists'
Breathe Out Theatre: The Riot Act
Christine Lindey talk 'Art for all: socially committed art from the '30s to the Cold War'
Film screening - 'Strata'
Katrina Navickas 'Protest & the politics of space in Manchester'
Alison Morgan plus musicians: 'Ballads and songs of Peterloo'
Michael Sanders 'The "Plug Plot Insurrection" and Peterloo'
Jennifer Luff 'State surveillance of the 20th century left'
Joanna Gilmore 'Lessons from Orgreave: policing, protest and resistance'
Online talk, 'Industrial workers and reading spaces in Manchester, Salford and the North'
Our Sam, the Middleton Man - film screening
The plan that came from the bottom up
Heritage Open Days tour
Heritage Open Days tour 2
Tastes of honey: the making of Shelagh Delaney and a cultural revolution
Exhibition 'The Basque children: child refugees from the Spanish Civil War'
Not just Peterloo: remembering the 1969 Manchester anti-apartheid march to the Springboks match
Bob Gaunt talk 'Arthur Dooley: his place in post-war British art history'
Simon Martinez talk 'The Basque children: Aid Spain and the colonies in Manchester and the North West'
Engels Lecture - John Green, 'In the footsteps of Marx and Engels - Willi Munzenberg'
Kenny MacAskill talk 'Glasgow 1919'
Mike France talk 'The Reform Act scrapbook, an amazing new WCML acquisition'
Exhibition 'Thomas Paine: citizen of the world'
Bones of Paine procession
Sam Edwards talk 'Troublesome Tom: the memory and legacy of Thomas Paine in Britain'
Public reading of Thomas Paine's Common Sense
LGBT History Month film: 'Invisible women: the story of two LGBTQ revolutionaries'
Invisible women: the story of two LGBTQ revolutionaries
International Women's Day talk by Katherine Connelly, 'A suffragette in America'
Film and talk, 'Versailles 1919: the return of the dangerous women'
Film - Good Soldier Schwejk
Online talk, 'The rise of Thomas Paine and the case of the officers of excise'
Guest exhibition: Posters from the Irish civil rights era
Online talk, 'Mary Macarthur, the working woman's champion'
Online talk, 'The pre-First World War labour unrest and women's suffrage revolt: never the twain shall meet?'
Online talk, 'The right to our own time and energy': 130 years of May Day
Online talk 'The legacies of wartime strikes: interwar women trade union leaders in France and Britain'
Online talk, The Irish in Britain Representation Group Archive at the WCML: a major addition to the Irish Collection
Online talk 'Betty Tebbs, a radical working class hero'
POSTPONED 11th annual Frow Lecture - Selina Todd, 'The great British mobility myth'
Radical activist communication - learning from the Irish civil rights era
Online talk 'Peace and equality: two sides of the same coin'
Online talk, 'Doctor Who and the Communist: the writing and politics of Malcolm Hulke'
Guest exhibition and talk 'The Air of Freedom' - the Derbyshire Boot and Shoemakers Strike 1918-20
Online talk 'Drums of Armageddon'
Online talk 'The Northern Carnival against the Nazis'
Online talk 'Russia is Burning: Poems of the Great Patriotic War'
Online talk, 'Margaret Llewelyn Davies: a great campaigning activist who was ahead of her time'
Online talk 'Red Lives'
Maxine Peake presents Radical Sounds
Online talk by Lisa Mckenzie, 'Working class women: the ritual monstering of women through the British class system'
Online talk by Dave Wetzel, 'The historic theft of land'
Online talk by Ralph Darlington, 'Strikers versus scabs: violence in the 1910-14 labour unrest'
Online talk by Andy Croft on radical poet Randall Swingler
Black History Month - online talk by Deej Malik-Johnson, 'Len Johnson: Our Champion'
85 years of workers' music - a joint online event with the Workers' Music Association
Online talk, 'It is our duty clamourously and unceasingly to agitate'
Being Human Festival event: Begin the World Over Again - radical thoughts & actions for radical times
Black History Month event 'Multiculturalism in northern England: history, issues and debates'
Communist Party centenary guest exhibition
Online talk by Kirstie Blair, 'Prating of the Pit: Northern Miners as Writers and Readers in the Long 19th Century'
Engels Memorial Lecture
'Working class story telling' - a film screening and talk with Amy Pennington & Lisa Mckenzie
Geraldine Van Bueren online talk 'Prohibiting Class Discrimination - Taking Equality Seriously'
Guest exhibition 'Literature in the Mines'
Happy 90th birthday to the Manchester & Salford Film Society - a communal discussion on the film Man With a Movie Camera
Harry Taylor talk 'Victor Grayson: a reappraisal of the life and politics of Britain's lost revolutionary'
Heritage Open Days garden tour
Inspired by libraries - Stuart Maconie with Salford Libraries and WCML
Online talk to mark LGBT+ History Month, 'Kath Duncan - the importance of working class LGBTQ woman in history
LOITER - a one-day digital live public art exhibition
A Tale of Two Libraries - an exchange between the Portico and Working Class Movement Libraries
Michael Sanders talk 'From Luddism to Chartism: John Stafford and the creation of radical memory'
Oliver Price talk 'Militant Tendency and the surveillance of Trotskyists in Cold War Britain'
Online book launch - Ben Harker's 'The chronology of revolution: Communism, culture, and civil society in 20th century Britain'
Online talk, 'A socialist witness for peace: Fenner Brockway's conscientious objection during the First World War'
Online talk, 'British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout'
Online talk 'British labour movement solidarity in the 1913-14 Dublin Lockout'
Online talk by Carole O'Reilly, 'The greening of the city'
Online talk by Corinne Painter 'Hidden histories: revolutionary women in Munich 1919'
Online talk by Cyril Pearce, 'Conscience and dissent in Britain during the First World War'
Online talk by Frank Palmeri 'Thomas Spence: satirist, utopian, socialist'
Online talk by Pete Strong 'Working Class Hero: Ted Gill of Abertillery'
Online talk by Uthra Rajgopal 'Jayaben Desai: the sari-clad lion'
Online talk, 'Ever present to the progressive mind?: heritage politics and the memory of Chartism in England and Wales, 1918-20'
Online talk, 'Land & Labour: The Agrarian Question in the Irish Revolution (1913-23)'
Online talk, 'The story of the Bradford Pit project'
Online talk, 'Stella Jackson - missing in action'
Online talk, 'The rebellion of the "basement lecturers": the Wandsworth Prison disturbances of 1918-19'
Online talk, 'The renewal of radicalism: politics, identity and ideology in England, 1867-1924'
Online talk, 'Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: uncommon sense for the 21st century'
Online talk to celebrate International Women's Day, 'The Scottish suffragettes'
Online talk, 'Tom Paine's bones: a fantastical visual biography'
Online talk, 'What is Big Flame?: exploring a revolutionary socialist feminist organisation 1970-84'
Online talks by Clara Jones and Natasha Periyan on 'Labour Women'
Online talks by Mathew Crowther and Sherif Dhaimish - 'The art of dissent - two cartoonists 150 years apart'
Paul Salveson talk 'Will yo' come o' Sunday Mornin'? - the 1896 Battle for Winter Hill'
Online talk by Peter John Fyles 'The real SDF: rank and file branch activities and responses in Lancashire 1884-1918'
Amy Todd online talk, 'The Peckham Publishing Project'
The Dandelion Clock - an evening of poems with Oliver James Lomax
Peterloo 'Living History' performance
Heritage Open Days
Frow Lecture
Screening of a new film by Amy Pennington, 'How does it feel?'
Johnny Campbell - songs for Winter Hill
Mass Trespasser will be celebrated - A Symposium WCML at the Eagle Inn
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Peterloo 'Living History' performance
Film screening, 'How does it feel?'
Film screening 'How does it feel?'
The Manchester Free Library 1852 - for the workers, but not by the workers...
New Radical Voices Poetry Workshop
Giz a Job: a history of the 1981 People's March for Jobs