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The Industrial Revolution and the Factory System inspired many stories, novels and factual accounts which the Library is lucky to possess. This is a comparison between two of them, Camilla Toulmin s A story of the factories, c.1842 [Shelfmark: Employment - Box 2] and John Brown s A memoir...
The Library has received money from Salford University s Advantage Fund to undertake a pilot digitisation project involving our unique Spanish Civil War materials posters, photographs, letters etc. Students from the University are helping to digitise and interpret this material. Our Object of the Month for June 2018 in...
Continued from Part 2 of 18 April. In 1987 the Irish in Britain Representation Group (IBRG) was six years old and growing, as new branches were being started across the country. Communicating with the Irish community was not as easy then as it is today. In the 1980s some...
University of Salford students on the second year undergraduate module 'Victorian Literature: Progress and Panic' completed close readings of texts sourced at the Working Class Movement Library as part of their assessment. Excerpts from the best student essays are being published as a mini-series here. Close Reading of Extract...
University of Salford students on the second year undergraduate module 'Victorian Literature: Progress and Panic' completed close readings of texts sourced at the Working Class Movement Library as part of their assessment. Excerpts from the best student essays are being published as a mini-series here. Close Reading of Extract...
