Tag: Arts

Events

Exhibition: Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

An exhibition now running at the Wellcome Collection titled Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights delves into the stories of under-represented workers and their rights within precarious and unsafe labour environments. From protests to healing practices, the exhibition unveils hidden histories of resistance and collective action through a collection of more than 150 items, including objects, artworks, films and new commissions. The organisers offer a … Continue reading Exhibition: Hard Graft: Work, Health and Rights

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Events, Labour history news

Radical Halifax exhibition: from the Luddites to peace campaigners

Runing until 20 October 2024, Radical Halifax is a unique art exhibition, historical enquiry, and political intervention that seeks to recover hidden histories of the Yorkshire town’s radical past and demonstrate how people from, or with a strong connection to, Halifax have played important roles in transformative movements that sought to build a better world. The exhibition will include artworks by local artist Marcus Jack, … Continue reading Radical Halifax exhibition: from the Luddites to peace campaigners

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Events, Grants

How Oldham found the funny thanks to Sam Fitton

Funding from the Society for the Study of Labour History helped to enable Gallery Oldham to take working-class history and Lancashire dialect to new audiences, as Karen Heatley explains. This year marks the centenary of Sam Fitton’s death. Fitton was fun-loving and multi-talented, his career started in the local textile mills but he went on to make a living as a skilled illustrator, poet, dialect … Continue reading How Oldham found the funny thanks to Sam Fitton

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Documents & objects

Enter stage left: when Unity Theatre put the politics into panto

Established in 1936, Unity Theatre was without doubt the most important focus for political theatre of the mid twentieth century, providing a venue for new work that would never have seen the light of day on the traditional stage and offering a way into the acting world for many working-class performers who would go on to become significant figures in post-war stage, screen and television. … Continue reading Enter stage left: when Unity Theatre put the politics into panto

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Documents & objects

‘Be united and industrious’: the emblem of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers

The Amalgamated Society of Engineers was by no means the first trade union to produce an emblem for its members. But just as the constitution and structure adopted by the ASE in 1851 proved influential among the New Model unions that followed, so the design of its emblem inspired numerous imitators. James Sharples, a blacksmith and founder member of the ASE (more properly, the Amalgamated … Continue reading ‘Be united and industrious’: the emblem of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers

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Walter Crane’s artistic vision of a new social order

Titled ‘The new social order: work for all, art for all’, this powerful image was created by the socialist artist Walter Crane (1845-1915) for a leaflet for the so-called Ancoats Brotherhood – named for the district of Manchester in which they were based. The brotherhood had been founded in 1878 with the aim of bringing art and literature to the working class; it organised lectures, … Continue reading Walter Crane’s artistic vision of a new social order

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