JoannaMWilliams
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Historian, nature and music lover. Author of historical biographies on Mancunian Victorians Abel Heywood and Lydia Becker. And now I have a new book out: ‘Emmeline’s Loving Comrade: Richard Marsden Pankhurst, the man who inspired the Suffragette leader’.
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Before job centres existed, public librarians helped unemployed people find work by displaying the “situations vacant” columns inside their reading rooms or on noticeboards outside the library building. Ralph Hedley Seeking Situations (1904) On display at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle.
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19 August 1893 Abel Heywood died. Great Abel - the hour bell in Manchester Town Hall - and a Northern Quarter pub are named after this former mayor, who was once imprisoned at New Bailey Prison Salford for selling newspapers without stamp tax.
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This busy scene from around 1890 captures a moment outside a grand public building, with people gathered beneath an ornate entrance and a striking hotel next door. This part of the city was once a real hub for visitors arriving by coach and train. Do you recognise where this is in Colchester today?
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Alan Turing died on this day 1954, aged forty-one.
Show PostThe Reform Act in England and Wales gained royal assent on this day 1832. It widened the electorate to about 20 per cent of adult males and redistributed parliamentary seats to industrial towns including Manchester, Birmingham, Bolton, Salford, Rochdale, Ashton and Bury.
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