Images from our Spanish Civil War collection
In spring/summer 2018 we were delighted to work with English and Politics students from the University of Salford on a collaborative project, Invisible Histories – seeing the hidden, hearing...
The exhibition, part of our Bones of Paine commemoration, tells the story of Paine's adventurous and eventful life, his narrow escapes from death and his involvement in both the American and French Revolutions. The main focus however is the very modern ideas in his three key publications, Common Sense,......
Published for the first time, A suffragette in America is Sylvia Pankhurst’s text based on her experiences during two lecture tours of North America in 1911 and 1912. Katherine Connelly, biographer of Sylvia, edited the book and will uncover for us the extraordinary story of Sylvia's time in America,......
Ali Ronan introduces this short documentary which tells the story of the women who met to protest the terms of the Versailles Peace Treaty in 1919. Drawing activists from the international campaign to get the vote, the women wanted to prevent all future wars. They became the Women’s International......
Screening of the recent Sands Films adaptation of Jaroslav Hašek's unfinished satirical novel from the early 1920s. With its inclusion of contemporary references it’s been described as “deeply political, arresting and vital… A timeless film that highlights the injustice of wars - old and new”. Free, but donations encouraged.......
Paul Myles from the Thomas Paine Society helps us mark the end of our Paine exhibition by talking about his book about Paine’s pamphlet, written in 1772 when he was living in Lewes, which challenged the corruption within the excise service and called for the organisation of his fellow......
In August 1969 political and sectarian unrest saw barricades erected in Belfast’s Falls Road and British troops on the streets. People’s Democracy, a radical student movement, provided political direction and publicity through Radio Free Belfast and the Poster Workshop. These posters show the messages of that time. Exhibitions are......
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