Invisible Histories talks
Wednesday, 16 March 2pm Chloe Mason Justice for Alice Wheeldon!
30 March 2pm Cyril Pearce Communities of resistance: patterns of dissent in Britain during the First World War
13 April 2pm Robin Stocks Manchester volunteers in the Easter Rising
27 April 2pm Richard Milward Luddites’ Nightmares
Seventh Frow Lecture
Richard Cleminson will give the Library's 7th annual Frow Lecture in the Old Fire Station, University of Salford on Saturday 7 May at 2pm. His topic is “A new world in our hearts”: anarchism and the Spanish Civil War. Richard is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Leeds.
Call for participants – Talkin’ ’bout that representation
In 1969 the Representation of the People Act, which allowed people aged 18, 19 and 20 to vote in elections, was passed. During the 2014 Scottish Referendum 16 year olds were allowed to vote for the first time. The People’s History Museum and the Working Class Movement Library are currently working on an project called Voting for Change. [...]
Conference 'Labour (dis)united: disputed legitimacies within the British labour movement'
A conference on Monday 4 April at the People's History Museum brings together historical and contemporary perspectives on the study of the British labour movement. Organised by the Centre for Research on the English-speaking World, it is sponsored by the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and the Labour Movements Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA).
Launch of a new book about Benny Rothman
On Friday 8 April at 1.30pm the launch of a new book about activist Benny Rothman will take place at the Library. Unite the union's biography Benny Rothman: a fighter for the right to roam, workers' rights and socialism, written by Mark Metcalf, covers not only the part played by Benny in the Kinder Scout mass trespass but also his battles against Mosley's fascist Blackshirts and his wide-ranging campaigns as a trade unionist and environmentalist.
Annual Luddite Lecture
The Huddersfield Local History Society/University of Huddersfield Joint Luddite Memorial Lecture will take place in the Diamond Jubilee Lecture Theatre, The Business School, University of Huddersfield on Thursday 21 April at 7.30pm, with light refreshments available from 7pm.
Working Class Movement Library
51 The Crescent,
Salford, M5 4WX
United Kingdom