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The national museum of democracy on its tenth anniversary: People’s History Museum
The UK’s national museum of democracy is 10 years old this week.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Past, Present and Future of Protest, People’s History Museum, Manchester
People’s History Museum in Manchester will open 2019 with a new exhibition of historic and contemporary banners that reflect themes of protest.
Read the full story..Suffragette City: People’s History Museum, Manchester
A new exhibit at the People’s History Museum in Manchester offers a stark reminder of what women went through to secure the vote.
Read the full story..Represent! Historic banners, People’s History Museum, Manchester
Historic banners telling the story of how people have fought for representation will be going on display this month at the People’s History Museum, as it marks the centenary of the Representation of the People Act (February 6, 1918) when all men, and some women, obtained the right to vote.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery: Savage Ink -The Cartoon & The Caricature, People’s History Museum, Manchester
Savage Ink looks at the development of the cartoon as an important form of visual protest and its often cruel and controversial imagery.
Read the full story..Photo Gallery – Sir Ian McKellen opens Never Going Underground: The Fight for LGBT+ Rights, People’s History Museum
Northern Soul‘s Head Photographer, Chris Payne, was one of two photographers at the opening of Never Going Underground. He captured images of Sir Ian McKellen as he launched the exhibition at the People’s History Museum in Manchester.
Read the full story..Rock Against Racism, 2 Tone and Red Wedge: days like these?
In 1986, my favourite band was called Easterhouse.
Read the full story..Betty Tebbs: a lifelong activist for peace, workers’ rights and equality
In an unassuming Manchester suburb there’s a living room with a piece of furniture you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. It’s a lamp made from a Greenham Common section of fencing. It belongs to lifelong equality activist and peace campaigner, Betty Tebbs.
Read the full story..To the Banner Born: Inside the People’s History Museum
It’s a banner you wouldn’t want to argue with.
Read the full story..Review: Show Me the Money, People’s History Museum
‘O Vanity of Age’ – the first line under the first plate of A Rake’s Progress, Hogarth’s genre-defining etchings – kicks off Show Me the Money.
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