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Author Archives: lipstick socialist
Irish in Britain; posters of resistance 1985-2000
The Irish in Britain Representation Group was an Irish national community organisation which during its lifetime organised and took part in many events up and down the country. The IBRG archive is at the WCML in Salford. This latest … Continue reading
Searching for Miss Nellie Kay; Manchester Tailoress and Union Organiser
Transcribing the Minute Books of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council led me to encounter Miss Nellie Kay. She was appointed as a special organiser for the Tailoresses Society in June 1901. The address of the Tailoresses … Continue reading
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Tagged Amalgamated Society of Tailors and Tailoresses, Miss Nellie Kay, MSWTUC
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My review of “Littlewoods Pools Girls” by Joan Boyce
Every Saturday around 4pm silence would descend on our noisy living room in East Manchester as Dad took up his Littlewoods Pools coupon and checked it against the football results read out on Grandstand. Every family we knew … Continue reading
Enough is Enough: The Tameside Care Workers Dispute 1998-99
In April 1999 Unison asked the Centre for Public Services to report on what had gone wrong in the privatisation of Tameside Labour Council’s elderly care services. They summed it up: ““This report shows a catalogue of mismanagement of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Bennett MP, Banner Theatre, Claire Moosney, Glyn Forde MEP, Jeremy Corbyn, National Union of Public Employees, National Union of Teachers, Roy Oldham, Tameside Care Workers Dspute, Tameside Labour Council, Tom Pendry MP, unison, United Voices of the World
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40th Anniversary of radical Irish community organisation the Irish in Britain Representation Group.
ON 10th October 1981 the Irish in Britain Representation Group (IBRG) was founded at the New Inn Public House, Newhall, Burton on Trent in Derbyshire with John Martin as convenor of the meeting. Twenty three people attended. The name IBRG … Continue reading
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Tagged "The Wearing of the Green a political history of the Irish in Manchester, Bolton IBRG, Bolton Irish in Britain Representation Group, Irish in Britain Representation Group, Joe Mullarkey, Laura Sullivan, Mary Neilis, Patrick Reynolds, Prevention of Terrorism Act
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My Review of “A Radical Practice in Liverpool: the rise, fall and rise of Princes Park Health Centre” Katy Gardner Susan Graham -Jones
Cyril Taylor (1921-2001) was a communist and a General Practitioner. He took his politics into his work and this new book celebrates his life and his influence on generations of patients, health workers and the way in which health care … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyril Taylor, Katy Gardner, Princes Park Health Centre, Sheila Abdullah
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“You are Your Child’s First Teacher”: the Story of Manchester Parents Centre and Education Shop
“I feel I was born to do the job of Education Social Worker at Manchester Parents Centre. It was an extension of everything I believed in my life. It was about addressing justice, giving back to people some control over … Continue reading
My review of “Daring to Hope My Life in the 1970s” Sheila Rowbotham
Sheila is the country’s foremost socialist feminist thinker and historian. This is the second part of her autobiography, following on from “ Promise of a Dream” and takes us through the 1970s – all in 291 pages! We watch as … Continue reading