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Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford,
U.K. M5 4WX
www.wcml.org.uk/
The Library's new exhibition, World War One: myths and
realities, open from Wednesday 6 August.
It explores topics such as the soldiers who refused to fight, why some
young Salfordians were so eager to enlist, and the strength of the anti-war
movement. The exhibition is open during our drop-in times, Wednesdays to
Fridays 1-5pm.
There is to be a series of free Wednesday 2 pm talks accompanying
the exhibition:
24 September Art and symbolism of WW1 - John Sculley
Using a range of examples from painting, sculpture and architecture, Salford's Director of Museums and Heritage will show how visual art was used to communicate the country's national attitudes during and after World War One. This illustrated talk will offer insights into the creative and critical thinking of a time that will be forever remembered for the carnage of its ‘war to end all wars'.
Using a range of examples from painting, sculpture and architecture, Salford's Director of Museums and Heritage will show how visual art was used to communicate the country's national attitudes during and after World War One. This illustrated talk will offer insights into the creative and critical thinking of a time that will be forever remembered for the carnage of its ‘war to end all wars'.
1 October Winifred Letts, Salford poet - Cynthia
Greenwood
Winifred Letts was born in 1882 in Broughton. She had a prolific writing career producing plays, poetry, short stories, children's books and an autobiography. She was a nurse during World War One and also worked as a therapeutic masseuse. She was not afraid of confronting people with worrying aspects of the First World War such as those who deserted from the army and those sent mad by the conflict.
This event also marks National Poetry Day
Winifred Letts was born in 1882 in Broughton. She had a prolific writing career producing plays, poetry, short stories, children's books and an autobiography. She was a nurse during World War One and also worked as a therapeutic masseuse. She was not afraid of confronting people with worrying aspects of the First World War such as those who deserted from the army and those sent mad by the conflict.
This event also marks National Poetry Day
8 October British trade unions and the First World War - John
Newsinger, Professor in History at Bath Spa University.
When the war began Britain was in the middle of a great strike wave that the Establishment regarded as of potentially revolutionary significance. In the first six months of the year over half a million workers had taken strike a_ction for union recognition, for the closed shop and for increased pay. The war changed this. In the second six months of 1914, the number of workers taking strike action fell to 21,000. However the unequal sacrifices that were demanded with profits rising while workers' living standards were squeezed still provoked resistance, from protests over rising food prices to South Wales miners striking for more pay, and engineering workers striking to protect their pay and conditions and in the process creating the First Shop Stewards Movement. By the end of the war the government was again worried about industrial unrest having potentially revolutionary significance.
When the war began Britain was in the middle of a great strike wave that the Establishment regarded as of potentially revolutionary significance. In the first six months of the year over half a million workers had taken strike a_ction for union recognition, for the closed shop and for increased pay. The war changed this. In the second six months of 1914, the number of workers taking strike action fell to 21,000. However the unequal sacrifices that were demanded with profits rising while workers' living standards were squeezed still provoked resistance, from protests over rising food prices to South Wales miners striking for more pay, and engineering workers striking to protect their pay and conditions and in the process creating the First Shop Stewards Movement. By the end of the war the government was again worried about industrial unrest having potentially revolutionary significance.
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