PechaKucha Manchester, Sat 15 Mar

As part of People’s History Museum’s International Women’s Day celebrations on Saturday 15th March PechaKucha Manchester are hosting a special women themed event.

Started in Japan in 2003 PechaKucha is now a global phenomenon. Currently running in over 700 cities worldwide PechaKucha Nights are a great way to hear informal, interesting and often amusing presentations about all manner of subjects.

PechaKucha Nights are FREE to attend, and often reach capacity, so don’t delay in registering to secure your seat.

Up for the challenge? If you would like to contribute, from a presentation about how your mum is an everyday inspiration or to a presentation on Pussy Riot, we welcome different approaches to celebrating women.  Just adhere to the 20x20 rule: You have to use 20 slides and each has to be up for 20 seconds. Please contact the PechaKucha Manchester team (Alex, John and Kelly) via: www.pechakucha.org/cities/manchester/contact/new 

To book tickets visit our eventbrite page

www.pechakucha.org/cities/manchester
www.phm.org.uk
https://twitter.com/PKNMCR

Suffragette Legacy Conference now taking bookings

Bookings for the forthcoming Suffragette Legacy Conference are now open. Priced at £25 or £15 Concessions/students.

More information, including a provisional programme, is now available via the People's History Museum website on this link.

Manchester Histories Festival events

A couple of events you might be interested is as part of Manchester Histories Festival.  These are now open for booking.  Both these events take place at the People's History Museum based in Spinningfields.

Sat 29 March

Woman’s Outlook: a surprisingly modern magazine?

Join Natalie Bradbury, writer, researcher and Information Co-ordinator at the Co-operative College, for this fascinating talk. 

Between 1919 and 1967 the women of the co-operative movement had their own magazine, Woman’s Outlook.  Providing an enticing mix of the personal and the political, Woman’s Outlook was surprisingly similar to women’s magazines today, and its concerns such as women’s representation in parliament, equal pay and healthy eating remain ever-relevant. 

Part of Manchester Histories Festival

Suitable for adults and young people

Booking advised via Eventbrite – https://womansoutlook.eventbrite.co.uk

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation

1.00pm – 2.00pm

Sat 29 March

Vanishing for the Vote – author talk and book signing

The Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements.  So suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott.  Many did. 

Join author and research fellow Dr Jill Liddington for the fascinating insight into the events of Census Night 1911.  Jill is co-author of One Hand Tied behind Us which quickly became a suffrage classic.  Her most recent book, Rebel Girls:Their Fight For The Vote was shortlisted for the Portico Book Prize.

Part of Manchester Histories Festival.

Suitable for adults and young people.  

Booking required via Eventbrite – http://vanishingforthevote.eventbrite.co.uk

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation.
3.00pm – 3.45pm

New history and politics discussion group launches with a public meeting on Ellen Wilkinson and the future of the welfare state

A new historical and political discussion group, the Mary Quaile Club, will hold its first meeting on 15 February 2014 in Salford.

The  Mary Quaile Club was set up in December 2013. It will hold regular discussions on working class history and its links with  contemporary political issues facing working people in Tory Britain.  The Club takes its name from the  Manchester trade unionist, Mary Quaile  who was prominent in the 1920s and 1930s.

The organisers say, “We  believe there is  a new generation of political activists campaigning  on issues such as the bedroom tax, the privatisation of the NHS, zero hours contacts, fracking,  the slashing of welfare benefits etc   who would engage with  discussions on history and politics,  but who  are  not being reached at present. We will be holding regular meetings linking history with current political issues.”

The first public meeting of the Mary Quaile Club will be on Saturday 15 February 2014, 2pm, at  the Cornerstones Community  Centre, 451 Liverpool Street, Langworthy, Salford M6 5QQ.  

The theme of the meeting will be “What Ever Happened  to the Welfare State?”

The speakers will be Paula Bartley and Hugh Caffrey

Paula Bartley will discuss the life and politics of Ellen Wilkinson. Paula is the author of Ellen Wilkinson, from Red Suffragist to Government  Minister,  to be published by Pluto Press in February 2014.

Ellen grew up in Manchester and was an active socialist and suffragist. She was a Manchester City councillor for a short time before becoming a Labour MP for Middlesbrough and later Jarrow.  In 1936 she took part in the Jarrow Crusade, a march of the unemployed to London. In 1945  the Labour party won a landslide victory and set up the NHS and welfare State.  Ellen became Minister of Education. She died suddenly in 1947.

When I went to the Ministry of Education I had two guiding aims, and they come largely out of my own experience. I was born into a working-class home, and I had to fight my own way through to the University. The first of those guiding principles was to see that no boy or girl is debarred by lack of means … the second one was that we should remove from education those class distinctions which are the negation of democracy.Ellen’s speech to the 1946 Labour Party  Conference

Hugh  Caffrey is Secretary of Greater Manchester Keep our NHS Public.. which campaigns against the privatisation of the NHS. He will outline  what is happening at the moment and explain what people can  do to save the NHS from being taken over by the private sector.

 For more information,

 blog http://maryquaileclub.wordpress.com

email maryquaileclub@gmail.com

Forthcoming events at the People's History Museum

Below are a number of events that are coming up at the People's History Museum that might be of interest 

Saturday 22 February

Purchasing Power: Women and the co-operative movement since the 19th century

Founded in 1883, the Women’s Co-operative Guild rapidly became the largest working class women’s organisation in Britain, mobilising thousands of female consumers for economic, social and political change. This talk will introduce some of the co-operative ‘wonder women’ who made their voices heard in the decades before women gained the right to vote.  Part of Wonder Women Radical Manchester.

Rachael Vorberg-Rugh is a historian, whose research and publications focus on the co-operative movement and its role in British society since the mid-19th century. Her current work focuses on integrating women’s involvement in co-operatives – as customers, members, activists and business leaders – into the wider history of co-operatives in Britain. She is the co-author of Building Co-operation: A Business History of The Co-operative Group, 1863-2013, recently published by Oxford University Press. Rachael is a researcher with the Co-operative College, where she previously served as Project Officer with the National Co-operative Archive and Rochdale Pioneers Museum.

Suitable for adults and young people
Booking advised, please contact 0161 838 9190 or info@phm.org.uk
In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation
1.00pm – 2.00pm

Monday 3 March

Snapshot on Women

Did you know the museum holds an archive of over 80,000 photographs?  Go behind the scenes and delve into our unique photo collections, the Labour Party photograph collection and the Communist Party of Great Britain photograph collection.  In this lunchtime drop in session, browse through photographs on the theme of women and uncover history through the lens.  Part of Wonder Women Radical Manchester.

Suitable for adults and young people

Booking advised, please contact 0161 838 9190 or info@phm.org.uk

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation

12.30pm – 1.30pm

Saturday 8 March

Living History performance: The Hard Way Up – A Suffragette’s Story

Celebrate International Women’s Day and watch our Living History character based on the life of suffragette Hannah Mitchell.  She spoke out for women and the poor and became a peace campaigner after World War I.  This event has been kindly supported by a grant from Manchester City Council.

Family Friendly activity, suitable for over 7s to adults

Booking required via Eventbrite – http://thehardwayup.eventbrite.co.uk

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation

1.15pm – 2.00pm

Sunday 9 March

Women as Peacemakers City Centre Trail

Celebrate International Women’s Day and join our Green Badge Tour Guide Suzanne Hindle, on a walking tour around the city centre.  Uncover the stories of historical and modern Manchester women and find out about their contribution to harmony through radicalism, war effort, nursing, science and community work.  This event has been kindly supported by a grant from Manchester City Council.

Family Friendly activity, suitable for over 10s to adults

Booking required via Eventbrite – http://womenaspeacemakers.eventbrite.co.uk

Meet at the People’s History Museum, walk through the city centre and end back at the museum

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation

2.00pm – 4.00pm

Saturday 29 March

Woman’s Outlook: a surprisingly modern magazine?

Join Natalie Bradbury, writer, researcher and Information Co-ordinator at the Co-operative College, for this fascinating talk.  Between 1919 and 1967 the women of the co-operative movement had their own magazine, Woman’s Outlook.   Providing an enticing mix of the personal and the political, Woman’s Outlook was surprisingly similar to women’s magazines today, and its concerns such as women’s representation in parliament, equal pay and healthy eating remain ever-relevant.  Part of Manchester Histories Festival.

Suitable for adults and young people

Booking advised via Eventbrite – https://womansoutlook.eventbrite.co.uk

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation

1.00pm – 2.00pm

Saturday 29 March

Vanishing for the Vote – author talk and book signing

The Liberal government demanded every household comply with its census requirements.  So suffragette organisations urged women, all still voteless, to boycott.  Many did.  Join author and research fellow Dr Jill Liddington for the fascinating insight into the events of Census Night 1911.  Jill is co-author of One Hand Tied behind Us which quickly became a suffrage classic.  Her most recent book, Rebel Girls:Their Fight For The Vote was shortlisted for the Portico Book Prize.

Suitable for adults and young people.  Part of Manchester Histories Festival.

Booking required via Eventbrite – http://vanishingforthevote.eventbrite.co.uk

In order to keep our events programme affordable to everyone, please make a donation

3.00pm – 3.45pm

21st Century Feminism, Wed 5 March, The Friends Meeting House, Manchester

Feminism in the 21st Century: Privilege, Bias and Feminist Practice

**BOOK TICKETS ONLINE HERE**

The Friends Meeting House

6 Mount Street, Manchester M2 5NS

Timed to lead up to International Women’s Day, this one-day public forum will consider contemporary gender issues and persistent sexism. What does it mean to be a feminist in the 21st century and what are the new challenges facing women in an era marked by on-going global conflict and economic crisis? A panel of internationally renowned feminist thinkers will discuss the feminist now and the feminist future, alongside a day of networking opportunities and activities.

Questions under discussion will include: 
Given recent high profile debates in the media and via social networking, what is the possible future relationship between Trans*/feminists?
What does the debate about intersectionality tell us about the state of feminism right now?
Does the current worldwide scapegoating of the poor and working class have a particularly deleterious effect on women?
Can new grass roots movements against austerity offer hope of positive change in gender issues?
What are the connections and differences brought to light by recent media and legal attention to rape and sexual assault, both in the ‘bad old’ 70s and in the hyper-sexualised present of assaults posted to YouTube and ‘Everyday Sexism’?
Does it still make any sense to speak of ‘post-feminism’, empowerment and sexual autonomy in the current context of commodification of sex and pornification of culture?

The day will be accompanied by an information fair including:

- Stalls featuring women’s groups and feminist activities

- Women’s choir

- Feminist artwork

Timetable for the day:

Fair opens at 11am with free tea, coffee and biscuits on arrival!

12.00 – 1.30pm Panel One: ‘Objectification’

Dr Jules Holroyd  (Nottingham)

Dr Anna Bergqvist (MMU)

Dr Finn Mackay (Feminist activist and researcher)

1.30pm – 1.45pm – break

1.45pm – 3.15pm Panel Two: ‘Intersectionality’

Rhian E Jones (writer and blogger)

Caroline Bayliss Green (MMU)

Reni Eddo-Lodge (writer and blogger)

3.15 – 3.45pm – break – free tea, coffee and biscuits

3.45pm – 5.45pm: Panel Three: ‘Post-feminism and silencing’

Dr Katherine Angel  (Queen Mary, University of London)

Jinan Younis (Altrincham Girls Grammar Feminist Group)

Dr Ginette Carpenter (MMU)

5.45pm – 6.00pm – break

6.00pm: Generating Feminism: Plenary from Professor Iris van der Tuin (Utrecht)

7.00pm- 7.30pm: Discussion and closing remarks

This event is convened by members of the Institute’s research cluster on ‘21^st Century Feminist Agendas’: Dr Ginette Carpenter, Dr Anna Bergqvist and PhD candidate in English Caroline Baylis-Green, and IHSSR Project Manager Helen Malarky

Please sign up to attend at www.c21feminism.eventbrite.com

If you would like to be involved in the information fair, or for any other questions, please email h.malarky@mmu.ac.uk

Update - Suffragette Legacy; How does the History of Feminism Inspire Current Thinking in Manchester?

A quick update to let you know that we are finalising the programme and booking procedures for our forthcoming conference on Saturday 8 March 2014.

All information will be available through this blog, including links to our venue, People's History Museum, and the programme.

If you don't want to miss anything, sign up to follow this blog via email - sign up box is in the left hand column

Venue: People’s History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER

Directions: http://www.phm.org.uk/visit-us/how-to-find-us/

Fee: £25/£15 (concessions for students or unwaged). Bursaries will be announced at the same time as the full programme. 

Twitter: @WonderWomenMcr @SuffragEvent

Wonder Women: http://www.creativetourist.com/festivals-and-events/wonderwomen/

Blog: http://wonderwomenmcr.blogspot.co.uk/

No More Page 3 Manchester Meet-up

No More Page 3 Manchester meet-up

Wednesday 8th Jan 2014 5.30/6pm start

The Penthouse, 5th Floor Hilton House, 26-28 Hilton Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M1 1EH

Anne Louise Kershaw, the Manchester campaigner for No More Page 3 would love to invite everybody to come along this Wednesday evening for a No More Page 3 brainstorm and chat.

No More Page 3 would love to raise the profile of their campaign in and around Manchester city, so if you have any ideas, are interested in the campaign, or just want to nosy in, feel free. Everyone is welcome.

The meet-up is a relaxed and very informal way to get together and brainstorm any ideas we have to get more people aware of the No More Page 3 campaign, and to get more signatures on the petition. Tea and coffee available.

If you need any further information or just want to get in touch contact: anne.kershaw@icloud.com @Anne_L_Kershaw on twitter. I really look forward to seeing you there

POLLFest at the People's History Museum

The People’s History Museum in Manchester is delighted to announce details of our exciting politics festival POLLfest. Visitors are invited to join us from Friday 15 to Thursday 21 November as we celebrate Parliament Week with a series of events, activities and unfamiliar goings on to explore this year’s theme of Women in Democracy.

Women in Democracy tour - Friday 15 November
Celebrate Parliament Week on this special tour of our main galleries celebrating women’s contribution to UK democratic life. Stick around afterwards to see unique material in the Labour History Archive & Study Centre and go behind the scenes in our archive tour.
Suitable for adults
Booking advised
Free. Donations to the museum gratefully received
1.15pm – 2.00pm, archive tour 2.00pm – 2.30pm

Our friends at the Working Class Movement Library will be holding a Women in Democracy event, highlighting the lack of women MPs which is often a complaint about parliament. With women making up over half of the population, so it goes that they should make up half of parliament. Visitors can see collections relating to those pioneering women who fought against this inequality, from the first female councillor in Eccles, to the women in the Co-operative movement, explore how women have fought for an equal say.

Women in Democracy at the Working Class Movement Library - Saturday 16 November
The lack of women MPs is a constant complaint about parliament. With women making up over half of the population, so it goes that they should make up half of parliament. On Saturday 16 November between 10.00am and 1.00pm, visitors to the Working Class Movement Library can see collections relating to those pioneering women who fought against this inequality. From the first female councillor in Eccles to the women in the Co-operative movement, come and explore how women have fought for an equal say.
Suitable for adults
Drop in event, no booking required
Free. Donations to the library gratefully received
Please note this event is at the Working Class Movement Library
10.00am – 1.00pm

Q & A with Lucy Powell MP - Saturday 16 November
Come along to hear Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central give her views on what it’s like to be a female MP in parliament today. In a Q & A with the museum’s Director, Katy Archer, Lucy will chart her journey from joining the Labour Party, to becoming the first ever female Labour MP in Manchester, to taking up her new role as shadow minister for childcare.
Suitable for adults
Booking required via Eventbrite – http://lucypowell.eventbrite.co.uk/
Free. Donations to the museum gratefully received
2.00pm – 2.45pm

In the evening, we are excited to be hosting Pecha Kucha Manchester.

Pecha Kucha - Saturday 16 November
Pecha Kucha Manchester is coming to the People’ s History Museum! Pecha Kucha is an informal presentation event where people are invited to talk about any subject they wish (in this case, politics) as long as they follow one simple rule – you can only use 20 slides and each have to be up for 20 seconds. This allows for quick, straight to the point presentations which both engage and educate.
Suitable for adults
Booking required via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/event/8811323907
Free. Donations to the museum gratefully received
6.00pm – 8.00pm

On Sunday 17 November we turn to the funny side of politics at our Comedy Spectacular! where we will showcase the best up and coming comedy talent. Warm up for the evening by coming along to our Politics Show Off – an open mic night with a twist!

Comedy Spectacular!
From political cartoons to Spitting Image puppets – we love the funny side of politics at the PHM. Come along to a very special night where we showcase the best up and coming comedy talent.

4.00pm Politics Show Off
Warm up for the evening by coming along to our Politics Show Off – an open mic night with a twist! Performers get seven minutes to strut their stuff before the buzzer goes off. If you’d like to sign up to perform please contact catherine.odonnell@phm.org.uk. Slots are limited so first come first served!

6.00pm Do Not Adjust Your Stage
In this very special performance, comedy troupe Do Not Adjust Your Stage will improvise scenes and stories inspired by the People’s History Museum.

7.00pm Gráinne Maguire’s One Hour All Night Election Special
Sad there’s no big election this year? Us too. Join stand up comedian, comedy writer and columnist Gráinne Maguire as she condenses all the fun of staying up late to watch democracy in process. Expect needlessly complicated graphics, politicians dancing awkwardly and humiliated grown ups trying not to cry in public. There will be Swingometers…
Suitable for adults
Booking required via Eventbrite – https://pollfestcomedy.eventbrite.co.uk/
Free. Donations to the museum gratefully received

Please visit our website to find out more about POLLfest. Follow us on twitter @PHMMcr #PHMPollFest for all the latest updates.

Women’s History Conference

November 23 2013   

10.30am – 5.00pm

Three Minute Theatre, Afflecks Arcade,     Oldham Street,  Manchester M1 1JG

£10/£5 (payable on the day)

Registration 10.00 am


Morning Session 10.30am – 1pm
Women, Politics and Music Claire Mooney  and Alice Nutter

Women as Political Activists (1)

Sonja Tiernan - Delia Larkin and Women in the 1913 Dublin Lockout

Michael Herbert – Sarah Parker Remond, Black American Anti- Slavery Lecturer

Afternoon Session 2pm – 5pm

Women as Political Activists (2)

Alan Fowler – Alice Foley: Weaver, socialist and trade unionist

Rae Street and Nick Wilding  – Enid Stacy: Socialist, Feminist,
Campaigner and Clarion Vanner

Panel Discussion on Socialism and Feminism

Speakers: Lindsey German and Louise Raw

Organised by the North West Labour History Society
More information: http://workershistory.wordpress.com