• Book launch - 'Physical resistance'
• New series of Invisible Histories talks
• Will Kaufman benefit gig in aid of the Library - Woody Guthrie's freedom songs
• Our first ever film festival!
• Museums at Night free screening of Luke Fowler's ‘The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott’
• ‘The Condition of the Working Class’ documentary film screening
• 'The Making of the Working Class' - 50th anniversary exhibition
• 50 years of EP Thompson's The Making of the Working Class
• 2013 Frow Lecture - Owen Jones
• LGBT History Month event

The Library marks Black History Month with a talk at 2pm by Natalie Zacek, Frederick Douglass and Manchester: a 'liberating sojourn'.

Douglass is celebrated for his activities in the abolitionist movement in the United States, but his visit to Manchester in 1846 was a crucial moment in the evolution of his thought on slavery, race, economics, and politics. This talk describes the centrality of Manchester and the North West in this radical transatlantic movement.

Natalie is Lecturer in History and American Studies at the University of Manchester.

All welcome; admission free; light refreshments after. The talk also forms part of the Library's continuing series 'Invisible hIstories'.