Our sixth Mary Quaile Club event took place in Ashton-under-Lyne and was a celebration of the life and politics of Hannah Mitchell (1871 -1956). Hannah was a socialist and suffragette who lived in Bolton between 1900 and 1910 on Elizabeth…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Mary Quaile Club event on 18 October 2014: Hannah Mitchell Day in A-u-L
Tagged with: Christine Clayton, Ciara O'Sullivan, Clarion newspaper, eileen Murphy, Hannah Mitchell, jennifer reid, Katherine St John Conway, Michael Herbert, No Conscription Fellowship, Rachel Austin, Socialism, suffragettes, Topaz cafe
Posted in Feminism, Mary Quaile club meeting, women's history, working class history
Posted in Feminism, Mary Quaile club meeting, women's history, working class history
Mary Quaile Club event on 27 September 2014, Screening of United Kingdom by Jim Allen
The Mary Quaile Club held its 5th event on Saturday 27th September 2014 at 3 Minute Theatre, Oldham Street, Manchester. We showed United Kingdom, a BBC Play for Today written by Jim Allen and originally shown in December 1981. Jimmy…
Tagged with: Jim Allen, Mary Quaile Club, Three Minute Theatre, United Kingdom
Posted in Drama, Events, Jim Allen, Mary Quaile club meeting, Public Meeting, Television, working class history
Posted in Drama, Events, Jim Allen, Mary Quaile club meeting, Public Meeting, Television, working class history
Mary Quaile Club event on 21 June 2014, Screening of The Spongers by Jim allen
On 21st June 2014 we held our fourth event in the Annexe of the Working Class Movement Library which was a special screening of The Spongers written by Jim Allen. First broadcast in 1978 as part of the Play for…
Tagged with: Jim Allen, Play for Today, television in the 1970s, The Spongers
Posted in Drama, Jim Allen, Mary Quaile club meeting, Television, working class history
Posted in Drama, Jim Allen, Mary Quaile club meeting, Television, working class history
Mary Quaile Club event on 24 May 2014 , A Writer Looks at History.
On Saturday 24 May we welcomed John Fay, writer of TV dramas such as Brookside, Coronation Street, Blue Murder and The Mill, an historical Channel 4 series set in Styal Mill. In a wide ranging, thoughtful, and never less than…
Tagged with: 3MT, John Fay, Mary Quaile Club, The Mill
Posted in Events, Mary Quaile club meeting, Public Meeting, Television, working class history
Posted in Events, Mary Quaile club meeting, Public Meeting, Television, working class history
Mary Quaile Club event on 29 April 2014 – Revealing Truths: Just How Free is the Press?
Our second meeting, ably chaired by Alice Searle, was a success. A packed room at the Friends Meeting House heard Granville Williams from the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and Stephen Kingston from the Salford Star discuss…
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