Will Kaufman's Woody Guthrie: hard times and hard travellin' is a "live documentary" that sets Guthrie's songs in the context of the American 1930s - the Dust Bowl, the Depression, the New Deal and the state of popular music itself.

Ticket cost : £10.00 book

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/woody-guthrie-hard-times-and-hard-travellin/

We are pleased to announce that socialist feminist writer and activist Sheila Rowbotham will give the third annual Frow lecture.

2pm, all welcome, admission free.

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/annual-frow-lecture/

Mikron Theatre return with their new play:

Can you keep a secret?: the rise and fall of the Yorkshire Luddites

Ticket cost : £8.00 book

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/mikron-theatre-can-you-keep-a-secret/

At 2pm Dr Nicola Wilson from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Reading will speak about Ethel Carnie Holdsworth.

Our other speaker will be Karen Bosson from the Communication Workers' Union.

All welcome, admission free.

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/international-womens-day-2012/

Enjoy guided family cycle rides from Bolton and Stockport, both arriving at the People's History Museum, where we will then welcome the Clarion Cycling Club (CCC), arriving on their penny farthings and vintage cycles. Take the opportunity to speak to riders and see their cycles up close. Explore the museum displays of Clarion material from our collections, followed at noon by a guided family cycle ride with the CCC riders to the Working Class Movement Library where cyclists will be treated to a Clarion tea!

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/clarion-clycling-club-and-family-cycle-rides/

To mark LGBT History Month

2pm Talk by Clare Debenham on Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946), campaigner for women's rights and pioneer of family allowances

Free; light refreshments

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/eleanor-rathbone--the-polite-revolutionary/

This exhibition displays the Library's extensive collection of Clarion material and tells the story of how a newspaper came to inspire a way of life.

http://www.wcml.org.uk/events/the-clarion--a-paper-a-movement-a-way-of-life/