WCML Newsletter, May 1, 2015
Welcome to our new-look newsletter, which is part of our new-look Web site.
If you head to www.wcml.org.uk today you can explore the new mobile friendly site. We’ve added a lot of information about library resources you can come here and read, on a vast range of topics. And there’s a whole mini-site devoted to Ewan MacColl, just in time for the centenary event we are holding at the University of Salford on 10 May*.
We'd love to hear your feedback on the new site so let us know what you think.
Object of the month for May
The Object of the Month featured on the Web site is a special and very timely new acquisition. Thanks to money from the Heritage Lottery Fund's Collecting Cultures programme we now own a rare and most unusual archive of election material - from 1835. The material details the expenses of a Lincolnshire Tory candidate, Thomas George Corbett, including amounts spent on alcohol, tobacco and wagons to get his voters to the hustings.
The arrival of the archive just before the General Election is opportune enough. But we have unearthed an even more curious coincidence. Thomas Corbett turns out to be the great-great-great-grandad of Samantha Cameron...
Drop in any time Wednesday to Friday afternoons until the end of June to see this fascinating archive which opens a window onto the ways in which campaigns were run in the 1830s, and what it took for a Tory candidate to win when the 'whole of the Radical party was arrayed against him'.
Ewan MacColl event – now with Maxine Peake and David Crellin Crellin
A slight change in personnel for our Ewan MacColl event. David Crellin (The Cops, Emmerdale) will now be participating alongside Mike Joyce and John Conolly – and Library Trustee Maxine Peake will be making guest appearances as both Joan Littlewood and Peggy Seeger!
Gerald Kearns has reluctantly had to withdraw from the event due to filming commitments, and we are most grateful to David for stepping in at short notice.
Tickets £12 (£8 students) are available from the University online shop. All proceeds to the Library.