“You Can’t Kill the Spirit”: our celebration of International Women’s Day 2019

Posted on March 11, 2019 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

Our IWD event You Can’t Kill the Spirit celebrated the history and contemporary actions of women from the Pit Campaigns of 1992-3 to women today active in trade unions and a new Manchester feminist magazine.

Our first speaker was Debbie Mathews, one of the women who set up pit camps in 1992-3 to stop the closure of 31 viable coal mines across the country. Refusing to accept the Tory Government’s death sentence on their local pit at Houghton Main in Sheffield they sprang into action, building a community campaign based on principles learnt from the 1984-5 Miner’s Strike, the Greenham Common campaign and the peace movement. Collectively they set up home with donated portacabin and a brazier to establish a 24/7 camp at the gates of Houghton Main, their local pit.

In You Can’t Kill the Spirit the women have documented how they built the campaign, bringing together the local community, including children. The book is an important self-help manual for today’s campaigns and is an important part of working class history – celebrating the role of women and their imagination, resilience and dignity. More information about the book here.

Our second speaker was Sarah Woolley, a full-time officer for the Bakers’ Union (BFAWU) ,who continued on the theme of the importance of women organising. She spoke about the incredible contribution made by young women in her union in the strikes against McDonalds. She stated that it was not just a national campaign for better pay and conditions, but an international one that had made links across the world with American McDonald workers. Find out more about BFAWU here

Our final speakers were Katy and Naomi from the new Manchester feminist collective, online magazine and podcast Make More Noise. They talked about their inspiration for the magazine and podcasts and their womanifesto of demands for justice and equality. Katy and Naomi encouraged women in the audience to get involved in feminist activism. You can read Make More Noise here.

Our speakers were followed by a discussion with the audience.

At the end the chair Bernadette from the Mary Quaile Club thanked the speakers and reminded the audience of our next event on 6th April, 7pm, at Three Minute Theatre, the launch of our new publication. “For the sake of the women who are to come after” : Manchester’s Radical Women 1914-45.

Sarah, Katy, Naomi, Bernadette and Debbie

Mary Quaile Club/NUJ event, 10th November 2018. Northern Radicalism in 1907: birth of the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester & Birth of the National Union of Journalists.

Posted on November 14, 2018 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

John Harding

Our joint event with the Manchester and Salford Branch of the National Union of Journalists explored the vibrant radical history of 1907 in the Manchester area.

Our first speaker was John Harding who discussed his latest book Staging Life The Story of the Manchester Playwrights, the story of the wonderful world of Annie Horniman who spent her inherited wealth on setting up and running the Manchester Gaiety Theatre. John showed how the Gaiety Theatre was an important cultural centre for the growing radical movement, attracting writers who would explore controversial issues, including the right wing press, the oppression of women and exploitation of poor people. The Manchester group of playwrights included the journalist Harry Richardson.

Our next speaker, veteran NUJ activist, Tim Gopsill (author of Journalists: 100 years of the NUJ), reminded the audience that Manchester was the birthplace of the NUJ with many leading figures working to set up the union in 1907, including William Newman Watts, Frank Rose and Harry Richardson .He then spoke about the challenges facing the union in a era of declining newspaper sales and the mushrooming of media on the internet.

From the floor Conrad Bower and James Baker of Manchester independent media The Meteor explained how they were going to set up a co-operative to run the publication in 2019. This would ensure that challenging investigative journalism would exist in Manchester, but most importantly it would pay journalists to take up this important work.

Tim Gopsill

Thanks to John and Gina and the wonderful 3MT who provided the venue and wonderful hospitality.

Thanks to Kath Grant and Manchester and Salford NUJ for their support for this meeting.

The Meteor (thanks to James Baker for photo)

Tagged with: John Harding, Staging Life
Posted in Book launch, Media and Press, Public Meeting, theatre, trade unions, trdae union history, working class history

Mary Quaile Club event: Saturday 6th October, “Dreams and Nightmares: Feminist Utopias and Dystopias”

Posted on October 11, 2018 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

This event took place in a new venue for us, Levenshulme Old Library, on Cromwell Grove now running as a community space.

Una, Michael and Ciara

Our two guest speakers were Una McCormack and Ciara O’Sullivan. This session was chaired by Michael Herbert.

Una is a lecturer in creative writing at Anglia Ruskin University. Her academic interests include women’s science fiction and fanfiction, and she is the author of a dozen science fiction novels, including Royal Blood and The King’s Dragon set in the world of Doctor Who. Her Doctor Who audio adventure Red Planets, featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace, was published by Big Finish in August 2018.

In her talk she discussed the work of the pre-war novelist Katharine Cade, who wrote under numerous pen-names, but is perhaps best known under her pseudonym Murray Constantine. Between 1922 and 1940 she published 10 novels, increasingly with anti-Nazi themes. Una discussed her best known work, Swastika Night (1937), set in a Nazi world 700 years in the future in which Hitler is worshipped as a god and women are brutalised as breeding stock.She also discussed Proud Man (1934) and The End of this Day’s Business, written in 1935, but unpublished until the 1980s, which is a companion piece to Swastika Night.

Ciara is a founder member of the Mary Quaile Club. She began with a short survey of some less well known women’s utopia and dystopia writings. These included:

The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish (1666)

The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan (1405)

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

New Amazonia by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbette (1889)

She then went on to speak about two novels: Herland by Charlotte Gilman Perkins (1915) set in an undiscovered country of women without men into which three men make their way and are confronted with a society in which they have no role; and Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (1976) set in the USA in the 1970s where Consuela Ramos struggles against oppression and mental illness and in 2137 where society is run on equal, communitarian and environmental lines and which Consuela is able to visit from time to time in the company of Luciente.

After discussion we adjourned for tea or coffee and biscuits, and excellent they were too. During the break audience members wrote their suggestions for utopias on post-it notes which were put on a wall. We then reconvened and discussed these ideas, with Ciara chairing the session.

We reproduce the post-it notes below (thanks to Ciara for creating this excellent display).

Our thanks to Ciara and Zoe for arranging things at the library and to everyone who attended this thought-provoking event.

Mary Quaile Club event on Saturday 19th May 2018. Northern launch of “Workers’ Play Time”

Posted on May 21, 2018 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

Doug Nicholls

At our latest event at Three Minute Theatre Suzanne Bury chaired an evening of speeches, drama and song to launch a book of radical plays “Worker’s Play Tme” edited by Doug Nicholls, General Secretary of the GFTU. We were very pleased that Doug could join us. In his opening address he outlined how cultural and artistic expression has always been integral to labour movement struggles: “There have never been bread without roses,” he said, “and we need more of both.”

Three Minute Theatre’s own in-house company, the Manchester Shakespeare Company, then dramatised excerpts from three of the plays included in Worker’s Play Time. All three of them reflected the way in which women (and some men) have fought for justice in their pay packet and equality at work.

“The Chambermaids”, written in 1987, showed how a group of chambermaids took on the Trust House Forte empire when their shop steward was sacked. “Dare to Be Free” commissioned by the Mary Quaile Club told the story of Mary Quaile, a forgotten Manchester Irish trade unionist, and linked her struggle with today’s fast food strikers.

Manchester Shakespeare Company and John Topliff

“Out on the Costa del Trico” was written by the Women’s Theatre Company in 1977 about the Trico strike of 1976 when 400 mainly women, who made window screen wipers, went on strike for equal pay. They won and we were very pleased that Sally Groves, who was the publicity officer for the strikers and later became a shop steward could join us. Sally explained how they succeeeded after 21 weeks on strike but also pointed out why it could not happen today with the legislation restricting trade union activity and why such action is even more important in 2018.

Suzanne and Sally

Sally explained how the American multinational Trico totally underestimated the strength of the women. “They thought we would give up after we lost at Tribunal but not one of the women broke the strike and went back to work. In fact it just made us angrier and more determined to stay out.” Next month a book about the strike written by Sally Groves and Vernon Merritt is being published Trico: A Victory to Remember The 1976 Equal Pay Strike at Trico Folberth, Brentford.

Our thanks to Doug Nicholls, John and Gina at Three Minute Theatre, the Manchester Shakespeare Company and Sally Groves.

You can buy Worker’s Play Time here.

Tagged with: Dare to Be Free, Doug Nicholls, Out on the Costa del Trico, The Chambermaids, Trico Strike 1976, Workers' Play Time
Posted in Book launch, trade unions, women's history, working class history

Mary Quaile Club event on 10th March 2018: Presentation of the Minutes of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council to the Working Class Movement Library

Posted on March 11, 2018 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

Ciara

At this event we were delighted to formally present the minutes of the Manchester and Salford and District Women’s Trades Union Council to the Working Class Movement Library. These two handwritten volumes are the complete record of the meetings of the MSWTUC from 1895 to 1919. They came to light several years ago during research for a pamphlet on Mary Quaile, who worked as an organiser for the Council from 1911-1919. It appears that she took the volumes with her when the MSWTUC merged with the Manchester and Salford Trades Council in April 1919, and the office was closed. Fortunately her family had preserved them after Mary’s death in 1958 and were kind enough to give them to the Mary Quaile Club, who decided that their natural home was the WCML.

The event took place in the WCML’s Annexe and was chaired by Ciara O’Sullivan from the Mary Quaile Club, who welcomed the audience to the event. She introduced Maggie Cohen, chair of the Trustees of the WCML, who spoke about how delighted the library was to receive the minutes, and the importance of the stories contained in their pages, which she illustrated with a number of examples.

She was followed by Bernadette Hyland from the Mary Quaile Club, who has transcribed the whole of the minutes (130,00 words) for a website on the MSWTUC. She began by stating that, “The history of the MSWTUC is a reminder of how a small group of determined working and middle class women and men working together could make a real difference to the lives of working women.” She went on to give a short account of the history of the Council, which had been set up in February 1895 by middle-class philanthropists such as C P Scott and Julia Gaskell. The stated aim of the MSWTUC, she explained, was “to bring trade unionism within the reach of scattered individuals working in unorganised trades and to draft them off into their own trade unions.”

The work of the MSWTUC was carried out by a number of organisers, who, during the life-time of the Council, included Olive Aldridge Frances Ashwell, Sarah Dickenson and Eva Gore-Booth. The offices were at 9 Albert Square: for most of the life of the Council they did not have a telephone or even a typewriter. Bernadette noted that, “These women worked extremely hard. They had to travel on public transport everywhere; they worked long hours, they were often not allowed on the premises of workplaces to talk to women and had to meet with them at their homes or in the evenings in the office.” Some of the unions they organised included Cigar-makers, Fancy Box Makers, Tailoresses and Upholsteresses. In 1902 they helped set a Weavers’ Union in Salford which soon had 800 members.

Joan and Bernadette

In the autumn of 1904 the Council split acrimoniously over the issue of adopting “Votes for Women” as an aim, a proposal put forward by Christabel Pankhurst. When this was rejected at a Council meeting by 4 votes to 2, Sarah Dickenson and Eva Gore-Booth resigned their posts with the MSWTUC and were joined by seven unions. They set up a a new body: the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades and Labour Council. For this part of her talk Bernadette was joined by actress Joan McGee, who read out some of the letters and minutes relating to the split. Bernadette explained that with the passage of time the two Women’s Trades Councils began working together, particularly during the First World War.

She ended her talk optimistically, noting that groups of women workers eg the LSE cleaners in London, the Durham TAs, the St. Barts hospital workers in London, and McDonalds workers had been fighting back, using social media to meet up and organise as well as taking part in strikes and demos. “They are the inheritors of the MSWTUC,” she concluded, “they are the modern day Mary Quailes who believe that trade unions are as important for women as women are for the trade union movement.”

Lauren

Bernadette was followed by Lauren McCourt, an activist in BFAWU, who has been organising in McDonalds. Lauren noted the similarities between the situation for workers described by Bernadette – and the situation in 2018. She explained that many young people had little or no idea of what a trade union was, but were responsive to initiatives to address low wages, zero hours contracts, poor working conditions and bullying. Despite the difficulties she was positive that things could change for the better, if people got organised.

Dorothy, Bernadette, Maggie, Lauren and Ciara

After a short discussion the audience adjourned to the main building for refreshments and to look at the minutes and letters which had been placed on display in the foyer.

Our thanks to Joan McGee and Lauren, and to Maggie, Eleanor, Chris and Elaine from the WCML. We must also thank Lindsey and Jane, two members of staff at the WCML, who created a wonderful display of the minutes, letters, photos and other items.

The MSWTUC minutes may be read in their entirety here.

Tagged with: Bernadette Hyland, Lauren McCourt, Maggie Cohen, Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council, Working Class Movement Library
Posted in Mary Quaile club meeting, trdae union history, women's history, working class history

Mary Quaile Club event: A Celebration of Thomas Paine’s birthday, 27 January 2018

Posted on January 29, 2018 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

“The world is my country”: a celebration of the life and writings of Thomas Paine, “the most valuable Englishman ever”

Thomas Paine (1737 to 1809), the author of Commonsense, The Rights of Man, etc was perhaps the most influential radical writer these islands have ever produced. He took part in the American and French Revolutions and almost started a British Revolution. Forced to flee his native country in 1792 he never returned and died in the USA.

In the 1820s the followers of Richard Carlile (who called themselves Republicans) began celebrating Thomas Paine’s birthday at the end of January. We decided to revive the custom and organised a joint event with the Working Class Movement Library which took place in the Annexe at the library.

The event was chaired by Bernadette Hyland from the Mary Quaile Club who welcomed the audience to the event. She was followed by three speakers:

Michael Herbert, a historian and organiser of Red Flag Walks, spoke about the celebrations of Thomas Paine’s birthday by radicals in Manchester, London and elsewhere, who held dinners with numerous toasts.

Mandy Vere from Liverpool’s News from Nowhere bookshop, spoke about the history of the shop, founded in the 1970s, how it had faced and survived many challenges, and its contribution to the radical culture of the city which continues to-day.

Trevor Griffiths, author of a play about Thomas Paine, These are the Times. Trevor was born in Manchester and has written extensively for televison, film and the theatre from the 1970s onwards. His other work includes Occupations, All Good Men, Through the Night, Comedians, Reds (1981) (directed by Warren Beatty), Food for Ravens and the series Bill Brand (1976) in which Jack Shepherd starred as a left-wing Labour MP.

Trevor spoke about the importance of Paine’s work and thought and read some extracts from his play.

The speakers were followed by a discussion with contributions from the audience.

Geoff Brown proposing a toast to workers on strike.

We then adjourned to the main building where we enjoyed tea and cakes. David Ward from the Thomas Paine Society then proposed a toast to Thomas Paine and this was followed by a number of others.

Our thanks to Royston Futter, Trustee of the WCML, for opening up the library and his assistance in making the event success, and to Gill Griffiths, and to Suzanne Bury for her homemade biscuits.

The WCML has a very good Thomas Paine collection which is open to readers by prior appointment.

Tagged with: Mandy Vere, New from Nowhere bookshop, Thomas Paine, Thomas Paine's birthday, Trevor Griffiths
Posted in Mary Quaile club meeting, working class history

Mary Quaile Club event: 30th September 2017

Posted on October 2, 2017 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

Our event on 30 September 2017 – Fighting Unemployment, Poverty and Austerity – took place against the background of the introduction of the horrendous change to the social security system ie. Universal Credit and the annual Tory Conference which was taking place down the road in Manchester. It was held in the Annexe at the Working Class Movement Library.

The WCML was founded by Ruth and Eddie Frow, communists who believed that the world could be turned upside down to favour the masses and not the millionaires. Eddie’s politics were shaped by his experiences as a victimised engineer who played a key role in the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement. Just across the road from the WCML in 1931 took place the Battle of Bexley Square where police attacked protestors, including Eddie, who was framed and sent down for 4 months for his political activity.

Our first speaker was Sean Mitchell, activist in People Before Profit, and author of Struggle or Starve, Working Class Unity in Belfast in 1932, published by Haymarket Books. He brought to life the story of how Protestant s and Catholics united to demand equality and justice in the Poor Law system. Through first hand accounts and original research Sean told the story of charismatic leader Tommy Geehan who led and help win the demands for a fairer poor law system.

Charlotte Hughes from Tameside against the Cuts, then reminded us of how the social security system is going backwards in its treatment of poor people. She spoke about individual cases she has encountered and how her group works to support individuals as well as publicising their activities through her blog, The Poor Side of Life.

Our final speaker was Chris Rea, chair of Manchester and Salford branch of the National Union of Journalists, who spoke about how his union was challenging media stereotyping of poor people through its initiative of the Reporting Poverty Guidelines. Crucially the guidelines were developed in partnership with the Church Action on Poverty and have now become part of the national NUJ guidelines for all media workers.

We then had a discussion on the issues raised by our speakers, and the meeting finished with a collection towards Charlotte’s blog. Charlotte does not get paid for writing this, so please read it, and make a contribution if you can afford to.

Tagged with: Charlotte hughes, Chris rea, Reporting Poverty guidelines, Sean Mitchell, Struggle or Starve
Posted in Austerity, Book launch, Fighting austerity, Mary Quaile club meeting, Unemployment

launch of our website on the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council 1895-1919

Posted on April 30, 2017 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

On Saturday 29th April 2017 the Mary Quaile Club launched the website of the Minutes of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council 1895-1919 as part of Manchester Trades Council May Day Festival.

This event was the culmination of a year-long project to transcribe the Minutes of the Council and place them on a website for all to read and make use of.

We were given the two volumes of hand-written Minutes (comprising 760 pages) by Mary Quaile’s descendants in 2016 who made contact with us in the course of our research for our pamphlet “Dare To Be Free” women in trade unions:past and present.

It seems that Mary took the volumes with her when the Trades Council dissolved in April 1919, and fortunately both she and her family kept them in very good condition.

The M&SWTUC was formed in February 1895 specifically to organise women workers, often in low paid jobs, into trade unions. Its early supporters included C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian, who personally wrote by hand the minutes of the first two meetings in a beautiful script, and Julia Gaskell, daughter of the writer and novelist Elizabeth Gaskell. The Council fostered trade unions among sewing machinists, upholsteresses, tailoresseses, cigar makers, power loom weavers, and many other trades.

Christabel Pankhurst was a member of the M&SWTUC for a time, as were other prominent Manchester women such as Margaret Ashton ( the first woman councillor on Manchester City Council) Amy Berry and Lady Schwann. The Council’s paid organisers included Sarah Dickenson, Frances Ashwell, Eva Gore Booth, Olive Aldridge and Mary Quaile.

It was plain that these unique records were of national significance, providing fascinating detail on the early days of trade union organisation amongst women workers. We canvassed support among trade unions around the country who responded generously, and we were therefore able to finance both the transcription of the Minutes and the creation of a website containing both the transcription and pictures of the original minutes.

At the launch Bernadette Hyland spoke about her work on the Minutes and the insights it had given her into the methods the organisers used to unionise women. She drew parallels with the current sitauation of low pay and zero hours contracts for many workers Lisa Turnbull from the Durham Teaching Assistants spoke about their fight against a 23% pay cut threatened by their employers, Labour-controlled Durham County Council, a fight which had been built up by grassroots activism. Lisa then officially launched the website.

The website can be found at http://mswtuc.co.uk

Durham TAs with Mary Quaile Club members Bernadette Hyland and Dorothy Winard (right)

Lisa launches the website

Tagged with: labour history, mandester and Salford Women's Trade Union Council, women and trade unions
Posted in Events, Feminism, Mary Quaile club meeting, trade unions, women's history, working class history

Mary Quaile Club event on Saturday 8 April. Not “business as usual”: the issue of sexual harassment at work

Posted on April 10, 2017 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

Audrey White, Bernadette Hyland and Sophie Shaw

Our first event for 2017 took up the issue of sexual harassment at work, an issue that was put on the agenda in the 1980s by the influx of many new women trade unionists into the movement. The campaign at the Lady at Lord John shop in Liverpool in 1983 stands out as a landmark event that pushed the issue into the public media, as well as highlighting the repressive trade union laws and the use and abuse of strip searching. The shop manager Audrey White was sacked after objecting to the area manager’s sexual harassement of young female staff. She won her job with the support of her union, TGWU, after the shop was picketed every day for five weeks.

We wanted to talk about this campaign because – like other disputes concerning and involving women in the trade union movement – it has been largely forgotten eg over the last two years two books published about the politics of Liverpool in the 1980s gave only a token reference to the dispute.

Glenda Jackson , Sam and Audrey

In 1987 a film was made, Business as Usual, based on the Lady at Lord John dispute, which starred Glenda Jackson, John Thaw and Cathy Tyson. Like a number other recent films about radical history such as Made in Dagenham and Suffragette, it failed to show the reality of the dispute, concentrating instead on unfair distortions of the personal relationships between the main characters as well as in the meetings between the trade union and the employer.

We were delighted be able to welcome Audrey to our event, who after the screening told the audience the true story of the dispute. She showed how important it was to have a trade union that would take the issues concerned seriously, and also a support group that was ready to picket the shop every day and pressurise the management to resolve the dispute. The success of the Lady at Lord John dispute is a classic example of how trade unionists win disputes, one that is just as relevant today as in 1983.

To bring the issue up-to-date our second speaker was Sophie Shaw, Equalities representative of London Unite Hotel Workers Branch. She has a number of years experience in the hotel industry, and spoke about the working lives of hospitality workers in the zero hours economy. Sophie showed how sexual harassment is rampant in an industry where women are dependent on getting enough hours to make up their wages, and also the vulnerability of the many foreign workers who may not understand the employment laws. She explained how her union is challenging the unfair treatment and exploitation of women workers and how we, when we book hotels or pay for meals, can make a difference when we decide where to eat or sleep.

After the speakers had finished Bernadette Hyland chaired a lively discussion on the issues raised with many contributions from the audience.

Gina in her realm…

Our thanks to Audrey and Sophie, and to Gina and John (and Mandy the wonder dog) at Three Minute Theatre where we have held many Mary Quaile Club events in the past. Gina’s vegan cakes went down very well with the audience!

Further information on the Hotel workers branch of Unite go here

You can watch Business as Usual here

To read more about women in the trade union movement see Sarah Boston’s excellent book Women Workers and the Trade Unions buy it here

Tagged with: Audrey White, Lady ar Lord John 1983, TGWU Liverpool
Posted in Mary Quaile club meeting, trade unions, Uncategorized, women's history, working class history

Mary Quaile, the TUC and Easton Lodge, 1926

Posted on January 26, 2017 by maryquaileclub — Leave a comment

In 1924 Mary Quaile was elected onto the General Council of the TUC, and with Julia Varley attended the National Conference of Labour Women, a conference of International Women Trade Unionists in Vienna and the Third International Trade Union Congress.

At home she now took part in delegations to lobby government ministers on issues including the Labour Government’s unemployment policy. In 1925 Mary was again elected onto the General Council. In 1926 Mary did not stand again for the General Council, but she continued to attend Congress as a delegate from the TGWU until 1931.

Recently we have come across pictures of Mary at the official handover of Easton Lodge to the trade union movement as a working class college. Ironically, a house maybe not that different from where she got her first job as a domestic.

Easton Lodge was owned by Countess Warwick (1861-1938) who, by 1926, had been a member of the socialist movement for over 25 years. It was an era in which a Countess standing as a prospective Labour candidate was not seen as bizarre!

In 1926 Countess Warwick handed over the historic building and sumptuous park and grounds to the General Council of the TUC who paid a visit. It was dubbed “Labour’s Chequers.”

Margaret Bondfield, Countes of Warwick and Mary Quaile in grounds of Easton Lodge

Margaret Bondfield, Countess of Warwick and Mary Quaile in grounds of Easton Lodge

Plans were made to develop Easton Lodge into a college and university for workers but, after the General Strike in May 1926 in which the TUC’s funds were severely depleted, the plan was abandoned. The Countess of Warwick continued to live at Easton Lodge until her death in 1938. Today what remains of the building and grounds are part of a trust. (For more information about this go here. )

TUC General Council with Mary Quaile on the left at the end

TUC General Council with Mary Quaile on the right at the end

Thanks to

Sylvia Ayling for the tipoff about Mary and Easton Lodge.

Jeff Howarth at the TUC Library at London Metropolitan University for the images.

Tagged with: Countess of Warwick, Easton Lodge, Margaret Bondfield, Mary Quaile, TUC 1926
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Our joint event with the Manchester and Salford Branch of the National Union of Journalists explored the vibrant radical history of 1907 in the Manchester area.

Further Reading

“The world is my country”: a celebration of the life and writings of Thomas Paine, “the most valuable Englishman ever”