From 4th January
Michael Herbert presents an evening class entitled Radical Women 1914-1979 will begin on Monday 4 January 2016 at Aquinas College, Stockport. This will study some of the key movements and events which changed women’s lives in the C20th. It will include the following:
Women’s anti-war movements in the First World War
Women Councillors in the 1920s eg Hannah Mitchell in Manchester
The first women MPs such as Ellen Wilkinson
Women’s unemployed marches in the 1930s
Women volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
The Women’s Parliaments during the Second World War
The work of Salford-born Shelagh Delaney, author of A Taste of Honey
The emergence of the Women’s Liberation Movement in the late 1960s
This course will be taught by Michael Herbert, MA. Michael has written a number of books including “Up Then Brave Women”: Manchester’s radical Women 1819-1918 which he discussed with Jenni Murray on Woman’s Hour on Radio Four. The course will make use of newsreels and film clips and a number of feature films eg A Taste of Honey, The White Bus and Charlie Bubbles.
For more information and/or to book a place on the course, please contact Sheila Lahan at Aquinas College, telephone 0161 419 9163, email : Sheila@aquinas.ac.uk
Saturday 9th January
https://www.facebook.com/Manchester-Vegan-Beer-Wine-and-Cider-Festival-1500539006905696
Wednesday 20th January
Tameside History Club presents:
Bernadette Hyland author of Northern ReSisters will speak about women who have been active in some of the most important political campaigns of the last forty years
2.00pm at Tameside Local Studies and Archives
The return of Petrol Girls to Manchester with Dead Class, CryWank and more.
Retro Bar, 78 Sackville Street, M1 3NJ
7.00pm £4 on the door
https://www.facebook.com/events/734422146690674/
Saturday 23rd January
https://www.facebook.com/events/970511412994730/
Friday 29th January
https://www.facebook.com/events/973219189368036/
Friday 26th February
https://www.facebook.com/events/770118566430584/
Friday 22nd and Saturday 23rd April
http://manchesterpunkfestival.co.uk/site/
https://www.facebook.com/events/806513016133040/
Friday 29th April to Sunday 1st May 2016
Any what’s ons? Email radio@underthepavement.org
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