The Working Class Movement Library has just announced its new season of the incredibly popular free Wednesday afternoon Invisible Histories talks and discussions.
One of the highlights is on 27th September, when Shelagh Delaney's daughter, Charlotte, biographer Selina Todd and MaD Theatre Company have a round table discussion on whether opportunities exist for young working class women to find a voice almost sixty years after A Taste of Honey first appeared. It's titled Could Salford Produce Another Shelagh Delaney?
Another highlight, amongst many, is Sheila Cohen's talk on The Grunwick Strike: drowning in support, starving for action, on 11th October, which looks at the seminal 1976-78 union rights strike at the Grunwick film processing factory.
The full line up of Invisible History Talks is...
Wednesday 13th September: Jennifer Reid - Comparing Manchester, Lancashire and Bangladeshi traditional song. During a research visit to Dhaka this year, Jennifer discovered many links between Manchester and Lancashire traditional songs and those from Dhaka and Sylhet.
Wednesday 27th September: Could Salford Produce Another Shelagh Delaney?
Wednesday 11th October: Sheila Cohen: The Grunwick Strike - drowning in support, starving for action.
Wednesday 25th October: Angela Whitecross: The Co-operative Party 100 years on - a reflection. Marking the Party's centenary, this talk will consider its formation and its development through the 20th century.
Wednesday 8th November: Andy Clark: The occupation of the factories - women's resistance to factory closure in Scotland, 1981-82. Andy will discuss his research into the wave of factory occupations launched by women in the early '80s.
Wednesday 22nd November: Cathy Hunt: Brave Hearts and Missionary Zeal - the National Federation of Women Workers 1906-21. Endemic low pay, deductions and fines, intimidation and insecurity – some of the things women across Britain faced at work in the early 20th century…
Wednesday 6th December: Neil Faulkner: A People's History of the Russian Revolution. In his new book Neil sets out to show how a mass movement of millions, organised in democratic assemblies, and mobilised for militant action, destroyed a regime of landlords, profiteers and warmongers. This talk runs alongside the Library's exhibition, Voices of Revolution, which opens on 27th October.
All talks happen at 2pm Wednesday afternoons and are free.
For further details see www.wcml.org.uk/events
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