The Working Class Movement Library will be celebrating International Women's day with an event on Sunday 5th March, starting at 2pm.
Ruth Frow, co-founder of the library with her late husband Eddie, will speak about the Socialist origins of IWD followed by Michael Herbert, chair of WCML Trust, who will talk about Mary Quaile, a leading trade unionist of the 1920s who was the only woman on the General Council in 1926. The afternoon will be rounded off with songs from Bernie Murphy, an excellent singer from Manchester. The event is free. Light refreshments will be served.
The Working Class Movement Library is a unique national library and archive of the history of the radical and labour movement from the 1790s to the present day, which originally founded by Ruth and Edmund Frow in their own home in the 1950s and now fills 40 rooms in a building in Salford. Eddie died in 1997 but Ruth, now in her early 80s, is still very active in the library. It is now is an independent Trust with two staff members and many volunteers giving their own time to work on cataloguing, events, publicity and much else. It also receives support from many trade unions:- nationally, regionally and at branch level. The WCML has recently produced a DVD telling the story how the library was started and what it does now, filmed and edited by supporters who work in TV with commentary from the actor Christoper Eccleston who is from Salford.
The library welcomes researchers, readers, visitors and, of course, donations of fresh archive material.
It is situated at 51 Crescent, Salford
Website: www.wcml.org.uk/
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