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Working Class Movement Library - putting class back on the agenda. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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Last Seen Profiles
Manchester's new statue of Emmeline Pankhust shows her wearing her prison brooch - you can see this original, which belonged to suffragette Lillian Forrester, in our hall display
#Vote100
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Here's another pic of our Radical Sounds curator
@MPeakeOfficial
in The Tshirt - you can get hold of your very own tshirt via
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75 years ago this month, Clement Attlee’s Labour government brought the entire coal mining industry into public ownership -
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Our Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures banner looks terrific hanging
@WiganMuseum
- great to see both sides of it, do go take a look
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The Working Class Movement Library is hiring a Library and Archive Assistant!
Applications close on 19/08/23, please email your CV and covering letter to trustees
@wcml
.org.uk
Follow the link to apply.
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New on our blog, volunteer Annie writes about digitising our precious collection of newspapers written for workers, by workers, in the 1920s & '30s - the Pit and Factory Papers
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May Day greetings from the Working Class Movement Library. Image taken from a copy of the Young International in the library's collection
#InternationalWorkersDay
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She may not yet have a statue like her mum* but Manchester does remember a woman who contributed not only to Votes for Women but also to Internationalism, Anti-fascism, Anti-colonialism & British Socialism
#IWD2021
*Go to
@sylviastatue
to contribute
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More info about the Radical Sounds you can expect when you join us for our online fundraiser curated by Maxine Peake on Bank Holiday Monday 31 August 7pm - (also where to get the tshirt 😄)
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'Inspiring Women and Women Who Are Inspiring’ is the first episode of our new podcast 'Begin The World Over Again', created by composer and sound artist
@TonalMusicCo
and
@JacksonHM
.
Find it on
@applepodcasts
@spotifypodcasts
+ more
#radicaltimes
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Here's our first pic of the great new look to the Crescent pedestrian crossing between the Library and
@salfordmuseum
and
@SalfordUni
, to cheer up a very soggy Monday
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Woo hoo, so excited to be able to announce our Radical Sounds fundraiser which will premiere live on Bank Holiday Monday 31 August at 7pm, curated by our lovely friend
@MPeakeOfficial
- more at
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This Thursday (26 November 7pm) we mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Engels by co-hosting the 3rd annual Engels Memorial Lecture with
@MarxLibrary
- details of how to register are at
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1/ Full of joy as I start my first day as
@wcmlibrary
manager. Thank you to everyone who has made me feel so welcome as I learn about the library and its collection. I've already seen so many inspiring objects as I’ve slowly started to explore the library 1/2
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You'll be able to join our online talk, 'Mary Macarthur, the working woman's champion', given by
@CathyJHunt
, via this Wednesday, 8 April at 2pm
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Our newly repaired reading room bay (lovely joinery work particularly 👍) and Acton Square beyond, on a typical Salford sunny afternoon... Don't forget you can book a space in our reading room Tues-Fri 10-4 - and we're open to drop-in exhibition visitors Fridays 1-4.30pm
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#OnThisDay
in 1737 Thomas Paine was born. Revolutionary writer and radical political thinker, he was the great hero of WCML founders Eddie and Ruth Frow, and we have a fantastic collection of books by and about him -
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#onthisday
1817 5000 'blanketeers' march from Manchester - first attempt at a protest march from a provincial city to Westminster?
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We are starting the New Year by looking back at the formation of the Independent Labour Party in January 1893. We will be celebrating 130 years of the ILP throughout the year. Find out more about them in our Object of the Moment
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New on our blog today, two short pieces written at the time by women involved in the 1984/85 miners' strike - our collection is full of such hidden personal stories
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We are recruiting! Do you want to work with a library and archive collection dedicated to working class movements? Do you have a passion for communicating about working class history? We are looking for a creative Engagement and Events Coordinator.
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Come & find out about extraordinary communist, feminist, peace activist, orator, journalist Claudia Jones - Sat 2pm
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Our Spanish Civil War digitisation project pilot didn't just focus on powerful images, there's audio too - hear extracts from International Brigaders talking about travelling to Spain at
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It's
#HeritageTreasures
Day and our choices are the fantastic women's suffrage badges we've been able to buy as part of our
@heritagelottery
Voting For Change project with
@PHMMcr
. They're on display here till 24 Jan -
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Delighted to announce that our reading room is back open as of tomorrow (Tuesday 16 Sept) - Tuesday-Friday 10-4 *by appointment only*. Full details at . Contact us at info
@wcml
.org.uk to book a space - only two places available per day, so bear with us...
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want to get your hands on one of our new tote bags? Follow the link to become a Radical Reader and you could look as good as
@MPeakeOfficial
!
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If you can join us at 1.45pm today (Wed 24th) we'll be streaming a video about the 1978 Northern Carnival Against the Nazis, ahead of our online talk on the topic at 2 - joining details at
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On
#HeritageTreasures
Day we thank the volunteers who've digitised some of our rare radical collections this past year. You can read about our Pit and Factory Papers, newspapers & bulletins written for workers, by workers, largely from the 1920s-'30s, at
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Peterloo director calls for 1819 massacre to be taught in UK schools
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Over the next few weeks as we get closer to the 90th anniversary of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, we will share items from our collection that shine a light on the event. First off, is the notice created by the B.W.S.F to promote the trespass
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Join us at our latest Radical Readings fundraiser with
@MPeakeOfficial
,
@mikejoycedrums
,
@NicoMirallegro
, Christopher Eccleston and many more on Sunday 14 April at 2pm. Tickets and more details via
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Come and see our new Tolpuddle Martyrs exhibition, courtesy of
@MarxLibrary
, opening tomorrow
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We have been exploring our archive to find material to support our Mass Trespass anniversary event in April. Todays finds include Benny Rothman's hand-written notes and his links to the British Workers Sports Federation
@Right_2Roam
@EagleInnSalford
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Excited to be having
@CathyJHunt
give her talk on Mary Macarthur for us as planned on Wed 8 April 2pm - our first online talk. Sign up details will follow at
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Our Radical Readings 3 - 'Suffer the little Children' fundraiser lineup has now been joined by the ever wonderful Maxine Peake. For tickets (£12) go to
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Our next online talk is Wed 29 April 2pm when Kevin Morgan will speak on the history of May Day - more at
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We're hovering excitingly close to having 9,000 Twitter followers. If you know anyone you could encourage to follow us, they might end up being announced as our 9,000th🎺 😀
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Ethel Carnie Holdsworth: campaigners push to revive fame of working-class novelist
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Finally! We've catalogued all our CPGB branch records. So what with us and
@PHMMcr
Manchester is the place for all your CPGB archive needs.
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Thrilled to have this gorgeous hand-sewn banner from Manchester Embroiderers' Guild on display during the course of our
#Peterloo2019
exhibition
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Our home, Jubilee House, was built as a home for district nurses. Today we are sharing an image from our poster collection, a poster from the health union COHSE. Despite its current theme, it predates the merger of COHSE, NUPE and NALGO to form UNISON in 1993.
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#OnThisDay
in 1788 Samuel Bamford was born - a handloom weaver who was leader of the Middleton contingent who walked to Manchester on 16 Aug 1819. His account of the Peterloo events in 'Passages in the Life of a Radical' makes riveting reading (hint: you can come & read it here)
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More publicity for our brilliant new acquisition - The Woman's Dreadnought, edited by Sylvia Pankhurst, in
@MENnewsdesk
(). Come along and see it for yourself on 30 March.
#VotingforChange
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Here's a Wednesday afternoon selection of extraordinary images from our Spanish Civil War collection, digitised thanks to
@SalfordUni
Advantage Fund
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Our Twitter account is moving to a new curator as the current chief twitterer heads off to new adventures. Thanks to all who've provided enthusiastic RTs etc over the last 12 years. Signing off with a favourite item from our collection x
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Transcription of a fascinating interview with Manchester union organiser Nellie Kay, from a 1902 issue in our collection of the Journal of the Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses
@wcmlibrary
@JewishSocialist
My research shows how even the poorest Jewish tailoresses were organising into unions in 1890s. Miss Kay was one of the organisers.
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#OnThisDay
1915 Ewan MacColl was born James Henry Miller in Salford.
'I can't bear the place...at the same time, everything I do, everything I've ever written, is to some extent informed by my experiences in Salford'.
Find out more at our micro Web site
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The amazing
@anitasethi
will be one of the panellists at our symposium celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass on Thursday 21st April. Find out more and book your tickets
@ClimateEmergMcr
@gndmediauk
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'We have it in our power to begin the world over again' - Thomas Paine
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Join us at the library tomorrow 30 March at 2pm to hear our next Invisible Histories talk about the Women's Co-operative Guild. Many women in this image from our collection are wearing white poppies introduced by the WCG in 1933.
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Great to see this newly acquired Peterloo medal on display
@PHMMcr
today - part of our joint
#LotteryFunded
project Voting for Change
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Pleased to have lent a lovely Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures banner and suffragette brooch to this exhibition
So excited to let you know that our new FREE exhibition is now open! Covering 600 years of protest across the borough inc Jacobites, Diggers, Peterloo, miners strike & more! We are currently open Thur-Sat, 10-4 and we can't wait to see you ❤️
@WiganCouncil
@WigToday
@WiganEvents
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Psst! Tickets for our fourth Radical Readings fundraiser, on Sunday 14 April and with a Peterloo theme, go on sale today 2pm via . Christopher Eccleston, Sheila Hancock, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Mike Joyce, Nico Mirallegro & Maxine Peake are booked to appear...
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The library is open today from 11am - 4pm for drop in visitors. Our Reading Room is dressed beautifully for the day and tours of the building are taking place from 11am - 3pm.
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This month sees the 90th birthday of the oldest continuing film society in the UK, and we're planning a collective online viewing of an extraordinary film which they screened in October 1931 - any guesses as to what that film might be?
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@YorkshireMuseum
Hard choice but everyone loves this vibrant banner, beautifully cleaned for us a few years back by
@PHMMcr
's conservation team. A visitor told us a story about hearing Keir Hardie speak in front of it & how that changed her life
#CURATORBATTLE
#StarObject
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#OnThisDay
in Old Trafford in 1882 - birth of Sylvia Pankhurst, who made a distinguished contribution not only to Votes for Women, but also to Internationalism, Anti-fascism and Anti-colonialism
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Great to be involved in
@bbccultureshow
on Peterloo and protest with Maxine Peake and
@msmirandasawyer
. Missed it?
http://t.co/D8IuXmDpmm
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Thanks
@PHMMcr
for the amazing opportunity to admire the suffragette banner acquired in our joint
@heritagelottery
Voting for Change project
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Ok so we need another 319 followers to get to 8,000, hmmm we are sensing a cheery-uppy lockdown project coming on here 🙃 We've lots of great newly-digitised stuff to share this month, why not encourage your friends to join us?.....
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Delighted to share the news that you can come & browse our ground floor displays on our pilot day welcoming back exhibition visitors 😀 It's this coming Friday, 6 August - just book a free one-hour slot in advance at
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Today's
@PeterlooMemoria
commemorative reading of the names of those who died at Peterloo or of horrific injuries afterwards
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Ok so lockdown can get you unfeasibly excited about small things - but we're only 24 followers away from 8,000, and when we hit that nice round number we reckon we're going to treat ourselves to at least one more homemade chocolate truffle... Can you help us get there?
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Delighted to be welcoming back drop-in visitors on Friday afternoons - asking everyone to wear a face covering and stay socially distanced 👍
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Do you have a passion for working class movements and culture? We have volunteer opportunities available in events, communications, tours, collections, exhibitions and more!
If you'd like to learn more, please get in touch by emailing us at - volunteering
@wcml
.org.uk
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To support our latest exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Communist Party in Britain, we will be hosting the launch of a new book by Michael Crowley, Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s and 1940s at 2pm on 21st Sept. Find out more..
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So that was 2021, that was... Along with 32 live-streamed events, 20 blog posts and a virtual tour of the library to do at your own pace ().
Have a peek at some of what we have planned for early 2022 at - see you then 🧑🎄
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We're delighted to be able to reopen our Reading Room this week - more at . If you'd like to book a space (first available date now is Thursday 22 April when there's one space remaining), please drop us a line at info
@wcml
.org.uk
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Opening tomorrow afternoon (Fri 11 Feb) and on Friday afternoons thereafter, our new free exhibition created with
@PistonPen
, 'Working class readers in Victorian Manchester & Salford' - do drop by
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thanks for coming to say hello!
Fab to meet colleagues from the Working Class Movement Library 📚 today - keeping Labour history alive 💪
@wcmlibrary
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The Library is recruiting! Our Library Manager will be retiring in the Spring. For full details of the job on offer and to download a Candidate Pack, please go to . The closing date for applications is 19 November 2021
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If you're in Salford this Friday afternoon (22 Oct) please pop by - our ground floor exhibitions will be open to drop-in visitors, as we pilot a safe return for people to our lovely space
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This Sunday, 2pm our fundraiser Radical Readings 3 'Suffer the little Children' is in
@SalfordUni
's Peel Hall:
@ANDYLPELLIS
@NicoMirallegro
@EllePemberton
@MollyWindsor97
@MPeakeOfficial
@mikejoycedrums
. Tickets just £12 via or pay on the door
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Massive thank you to Eddie Dempsey, Assistant General Secretary of the
@RMTunion
for visiting our stall and signing up as a Radical Reader!
If you would also like to sign up and get a free WCML tote bag then follow the link below.
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And a great turnout at the
@ryebankfields
protest today on the anniversary of the Kinder Mass Trespass
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Join us tomorrow (Wed 10 Feb) 2pm for our
#LGBTHM21
live-streamed talk on Communist activist Kath Duncan, a powerful orator “everyone was scared of” who has, until now, gone largely unnoticed by a modern audience. More at
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Still some tickets left for our Radical Readings fundraiser 'Suffer the Little Children'
@SalfordUni
Sun 25 March 2pm - book now! Feat.
@andylpellis
@mikejoycedrums
@NicoMirallegro
@EllePemberton
@MollyWindsor97
and Maxine Peake
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We are opening on Saturday 23rd July and Saturday 13th August for drop in visitors and tours of our building. Come and discover our exhibitions and take part in activities from 11am - 4pm. Free and open to all! Find out more
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#OnThisDay
1819 armed cavalrymen and soldiers attacked a large peaceful crowd in Manchester in what became known as the Peterloo Massacre. At least 18 people died either on the field or later from their injuries, whilst many hundreds were injured -
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Our next live-streamed talk is a double bill on Labour Women, focusing on Ellen Wilkinson and Vera Brittain. Join us Wed 2 December 2pm - more details at
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As part of today's
@HeritageFundUK
focus on
#heritagetreasures
, here's our lovely building - built as a nurses' home in 1899 by public subscription, thanks to the people of Salford, and since 1987 housing our amazing collections
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Following on from the Winter Hill trespass anniversary march on 5 Sept, tomorrow (15 Sept) at 2pm
@PaulSalveson
will speak about the original 1896 events. Tickets to attend in person are now all booked up, but you can join us via live-stream - more at
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Six days to go till our
@MPeakeOfficial
-curated Radical Sounds event - thanks to Christopher Eccleston,
@NicoMirallegro
,
@cottriall28
& our other radical readers alongside musicians like
@teachersofpop
&
@The_E_R_C
. You can set yourself a reminder now at
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We hold a couple of hundred thousand pamphlets. Today we got this one out at random to show to
@SalfordUni
graphic arts students. Two hours later the pamphlet author, who's never visited before, has walked through our door... In a great way, that's just weird...
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#OnThisDay
1842 20,000 striking millworkers march from Stalybridge/Ashton to Manchester. Only 23 years after
#Peterloo
, & one banner states ‘They that perish by the sword are better than they that perish by hunger’. After a meeting at Granby Fields the crowd disperses peacefully
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Our Object of the Month is a letter written home by two visitors to Manchester on the day of the Peterloo Massacre - acquired recently as part of our
@HeritageFundUK
Voting for Change project with
@PHMMcr
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We're perhaps not the most obvious source for today's
@YorkshireMuseum
#BestBling
#CURATORBATTLE
challenge - but here's a pic of a beautiful suffragette badge to brighten your Friday anyhow...
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#OnThisDay
in 1894 the Clarion Cycling Club was formed, to "combine the pleasures of cycling with the propaganda of Socialism". More at
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What a treat to spend time today poring over the early 19th century minute books of
@ThePortico
as part of research for our forthcoming Tale of Two Libraries event
#FestivalOfLibraries
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We're proud as punch to have been given this hugely special mug today for our collection, and the lovely letter that came with it. Many thanks
@Shrewsbury24C
and
@eileenturnbull
- indeed, you never gave up 👏
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Opening this Friday 1-4.30pm, and visit-able until February during our drop-in Friday afternoons, we're delighted to host a guest exhibition from
@PistonPen
, 'Literature in the Mines', with additional mining material from our own collections. More info at
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Exciting
#Peterloo
news - you can now view our newly digitised volume of Henry Hunt's trial, complete with handwritten notes by William Hulton, Chairman of the Magistrates at Peterloo, at . Thanks
@StudyLabHistory
for the grant to make this possible
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excited to be welcoming
@hakimadi1
&
@amelimetre
to talk about Many Struggles on Wednesday 30th August from 7PM. Follow the link to book your spot!
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Excited to have items from our Lancashire Women Against Pit Closures, and broader mining, collections on display now
@rxtheatre
to mark
@MPeakeOfficial
's new play Queens of the Coal Age
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