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Tag: Manchester Studies

Women’s Lib? “Well, I’m all for it”

9th April 2021 Vicki Caren

Women born at the start of the twentieth century compare the politics of women’s liberation of their youth in the 1930s with the 1960s and 1970s.

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Protest Music and Political Life – part 2

18th January 2021 Vicki Caren

Women share stories of gaining confidence from the struggle against injustice in the 1930s.

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The Housewives of Wythenshawe

22nd January 2020 Vicki Caren

The strange and wonderful story of the Wythenshawe Communist Party’s ‘Trial of Mary Brown’.

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Moving to Wythenshawe

16th December 2019 North West Sound Heritage

This year is the 100th anniversary of the Addison Act. This Housing Act enabled local authorities to build social housing, and along with subsequent Acts,

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Life for women working in Domestic Service in Manchester after the First World War

6th December 2019 North West Sound Heritage

The Manchester Oral History Collection interviews with women on domestic service allow us to travel back in time through generations to a time and a

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