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Woody Guthrie: hard times and hard travellin'

Event date : 13th May 2012

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/


Annual Frow lecture

Event date : 28th Apr 2012

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 'Can you keep a secret?'

Event date : 15th Apr 2012

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/


International Women's Day 2012

Event date : 10th Mar 2012

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/


Clarion Cycling Club and family cycle rides

Event date : 26th Feb 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/


Eleanor Rathbone - the polite revolutionary

Event date : 4th Feb 2012

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/


The Clarion - a paper, a movement, a way of life

Event date : 10th Jan 2012

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/