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- Parliament Week - 'The Political House that Jack Built', 1819
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- Striking a light: celebrating women in trade unions
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- Sean McLoughlin, Ireland's Forgotten Revolutionary
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- Snap! – my life in the Working Class Movement Library
- 25th anniversary exhibition
- Struggle, Solidarity and Defeat: 1913 Dublin Lockout centenary conference
- International Women's Day event
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- 2013 Frow Lecture - Owen Jones
- 50 years of EP Thompson's The Making of the Working Class
- 'The Making of the Working Class' - 50th anniversary exhibition
- ‘The Condition of the Working Class’ documentary film screening
- Museums at Night free screening of Luke Fowler's ‘The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcott’
- Our first ever film festival!
- Will Kaufman benefit gig in aid of the Library - Woody Guthrie's freedom songs
- New series of Invisible Histories talks
- Book launch - 'Physical resistance'
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- 1791 - Thomas Paine publishes 'Rights of Man'
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- 1867 - Manchester Martyrs
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- 1913 - Cat and Mouse Act
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- 1932 - Kinder Scout mass trespass
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- 1945 - nationalisation of the mines
- 1944 - Education Act
- 1948 - birth of the NHS
- 1956 - the Hungarian Uprising
- 1958 - Aldermaston march
- 1968 - Prague Spring
- 1971 - Upper Clyde Shipbuilders
- 1976 - Grunwick dispute
- 1982 - Falklands War
- 1984 - Miners' strike
- 1990 - Nelson Mandela's release from prison
- 1998 - Good Friday agreement
- 1999 - introduction of national minimum wage
- 2001 - Stop the War campaign
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