Showing posts with label The People's History Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The People's History Museum. Show all posts
Tuesday, 30 June 2026

William Barefoot and a day in the archives of the Peoples’ History Museum in Manchester

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William Brefoot, date unknown Now I have to confess that for me William Barefoot was just a name on a plaque in the Pleasaunce, and i...
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Sunday, 22 March 2026

Connections ...... Edith Nesbit of Well Hall and William Barefoot Labour politican and councillor for Eltham

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Edith Nesbit, circa 1890 Now I like the way that history continues to surprise you, often taking you in directions which you could not ...
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Sunday, 1 June 2025

Annot Robinson ........ revisiting a remarkable woman

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I have decided to revisit  Annot Robinson *. Mrs Annot before her marriage to Sam Robinson I first came across her   in an  excell...
Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Annot Robinson ........

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Annot before her marriage to Sam Robinson I have decided to revisit Annot Robinson .* I first came across her in an excellent account...
Saturday, 7 November 2020

Another side to life on the Home Front in Manchester during the Great War

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“This meeting views with grave concern the enormous rise in the price of foodstuffs and coal, which is equivalent to a considerable red...
Wednesday, 15 January 2020

Burrowing deep into the Great War ................the War Emergency Workers National Committee

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Women munition workers Belsize works, Openshaw, 1918  Yesterday I was thinking back to  one of those mornings which for me was pretty n...
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Wednesday, 8 May 2019

“No boy ought to be kept from school to work"........ stories of child labour in the Great War

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Now I am off on a search for the story of John Thomas Longhurst. On the meadows circa 1880 He was born in 1902 in Weston Underwood in...
Saturday, 27 April 2019

Looking for the stories of the children who worked the land during the Great War

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I have pretty much admitted defeat in the search for Herbert Catchpole. Now anyone who has gone looking for a relative as part of a fam...
Wednesday, 6 March 2019

"no women taking on a man’s work will be receiving a man’s wage" ............stories from the Great War

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“Women will most certainly have to take the place of men.   There is already a shortage of men workers in Manchester  but so far as I a...
Thursday, 21 February 2019

The power of the Union ............ half forgotten stories from the Great War

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“This meeting views with grave concern the enormous rise in the price of foodstuffs and coal, which is equivalent to a considerable reducti...
Thursday, 6 July 2017

Snapshots of the Great War nu 1 ..... “If a farmer or milk dealer was selling milk at 4d per quart on Nov 15 1914 is he entitled to charge 6d per qt now?”......

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During 1915 and into 1916 the cost of living continued to rise while some foods became in even shorter supply. In the February of 1916 ...
Tuesday, 7 April 2015

Looking for the Chorlton Socialist Society in 1908

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Now I am always looking for those little bits of our history which have been lost but are now coming back out of the shadows. So it is ...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Snapshots of the Great War nu 3 ........... the Manchester Pals

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Now I don’t have a date for the picture but it’s of a young James Callaghan of the 8th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment. He was one...
Monday, 10 February 2014

150 years of Co-operation at the People's History Museum till May

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A CWS jam advert circa 1930s Now all most all my close friends can remember their mum’s co-op divi number. Whenever you bought anythi...