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May 2024: Things to watch, read, visit and get active in..

Happy May Day! ….a day for workers’ rights. Read about its history here. Support… one of the most important campaigns of this era; justice for renters. Housing campaign group  Acorn is  targeting the banks from making one-year tenancies the maximum

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International Women’s Day

International Women’s Day poster.  Austria, 1928 International Women’s Day used to be about women showing solidarity with other women on strike or involved in political movements across the world.  Today looking through the events across my own area, Greater Manchester,

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Joint Mary Quaile Club/Kick Up A Fuss event : Radical Women in the Arts, Past and Present: 4th November 2023.

The Mary Quaile Club and Kick up A Fuss had an inspiring and informative event on Radical Women in the Arts; Past and Present in Manchester  on Saturday 4th  November 2023.  The event had been originally booked at the Friends

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Mary Quaile Club event on 15 February 2014, Whatever Happened to the Welfare State?

The Mary  Quaile Club held a well-attended inaugural meeting on Saturday 15 February 2014  at Cornerstones Cafe, Langworthy, Salford.  An attentive audience heard Paula  Bartley discuss aspects of the life of Ellen Wilkinson,  including her involvement in the the suffragist 

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