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Continued from Part 1 of 29 March... Today most of us involved in our trade union or community organisation use the internet, including Facebook and Twitter, to communicate with our members. In the period of this archive there was no internet and contact with members was made by sending...
Striking women: struggles and strategies of South Asian women workers from Grunwick to Gate Gourmet by Sundari Anitha and Ruth Pearson. Lawrence & Wishart, March 2018, 18. There is something strange going on when plays about trade union defeats (including We are the Lions, Mr Manager about Grunwicks and...
Over the centuries the Irish have played a key role in the labour and trade union movement in this country. The Working Class Movement Library has some of the most important archives which document this activity and show the continuous thread between generations of Irish and British activists. In...
Votes for Catharine Susan and Me, Kathleen Ainslie (c.1910/11) Visitors to the People’s History Museum (PHM) will find an eye-catching range of posters, postcards and banners among Gallery 1’s array of exhibits on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century women’s suffrage movement. Many of these were clearly produced in...
Intellectual Mansions S.W. by Philip Gibbs (1910) As noted in a recent blog post, visitors to the People’s History Museum will find, within the Voters section of Gallery 1, a wide range of intriguing items on the early 20th century women’s suffrage movement (including some brilliant posters, postcards, banners...
