Manchester Branch Programme (with Liverpool and Chester)
Manchester Branch Programme 2024-25
Entry to meetings is free to HA members, non-members £4 per meeting.
We are delighted to be able to welcome our members and interested members of the public to our 2024 – 2025 series of events. Of course, circumstances are always changeable and events may vary or be cancelled at short notice, so we encourage you to watch out for updates on our website or Facebook page (details below).
For further information, please contact Sahand Razavi on 0161 233 0818 or alternatively through email at srazavi@live.co.uk . All meetings take place at the Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, M2 5NS, on Saturday afternoons at 12pm, (except for branch visits, for which information regarding meeting place and time can differ – please see details below). The Meeting House is directly behind Manchester’s Central Library in the city centre, and can be accessed easily by Metrolink, just get off at St. Peter’s Square tram stop, and you will see the Library.
Saturday 7 September 2024
Guided visit of the Rochdale Pioneers’ Museum, Greater Manchester
We begin our programme with a tour of Rochdale Pioneers’ Museum. Housed in the building where the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society started, the Museum is regarded as the birthplace of the modern co-operative movement. The Museum showcases how the co-operative movement influenced issues such as women’s rights, poverty, education, fair trade and social reform.
Meet for tea/coffee at 11.30 am in 31, Toad Lane for 12 noon tour start.
Guided tour is complimentary for Members of the HA and £5 for non-members. Please register your interest in advance to: srazavi@live.co.uk as places are limited.
Saturday 26 October 2024
Dr. Jack Webb, University of Manchester
The Caribbean Presence in Britain in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century
In Black History Month, this lecture offers a fascinating exploration of the processes of Black settlement, community and neighbourhood formation and local Black print culture.
The Branch AGM will follow this meeting for Members.
Saturday16 November 2024
Dr Michael Nevell, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust
Recording Manchester’s Textile Mills
An insightful overview of the city’s textile mill legacy from the 1780s to 1912, picking up key sites from the city’s c.150 mills, such as Arkwright’s 1780s mill, the Murray’s Mill complex from the 1800s, the Brownsfield Mill from the 1820s, and a series of archaeological excavations on early textile mill engine houses.
Saturday 7 December 2024
Haseeb Khan, Manchester Metropolitan University
Muslim Merchants in Nineteenth Century Manchester: The Moroccan and Syrian Community.
During the nineteenth century Arab merchants, including Muslims, Christians and Jews, from Morocco and Syria settled in Manchester, to work in the cotton trade. This stimulating paper discusses religious identity amongst the merchants.
Saturday 18 January 2025
Dr Chris Millington, Manchester Metropolitan University
France in the Second World War: Collaboration, Resistance and the Holocaust
A wide-ranging introduction to how thousands of men, women and children suffered arrest, deportation and death as the French Vichy regime worked to secure a place for France in Hitler’s New Order.
Saturday 1 February 2025
Kevin McPhillips Memorial Lecture.
Professor Emeritus Keith Laybourn, University Huddersfield
“Who Killed Cock Robin?” The Rise and Fall of the First Labour Government in Britain, 1924
A penetrating analysis of how, although short-lived, the very existence of the 1924 minority Labour government proved to have a vital impact on the future of British politics.
Saturday15 March 2025:
Dr Charlotte Wildman, University of Manchester
Militant Manchester: Women’s Activism from Emmeline Pankhurst and Beyond
We end our series of lectures in Women’s History Month with Dr. Wildman’s insightful thoughts on the way that women’s social standing in Victorian Britain prompted the birth of the suffrage movement in Manchester.
Saturday10 May 2025: Guided Tour of Manchester Museum.
We finalise our programme in Local and Community History Month with what should be a highly interesting guided visit of the University of Manchester’s re-developed Manchester Museum. Meet inside the Museum’s main entrance at 11.45 am for 12 noon start. Admittance to the Museum and guided tour is free for HA members, whilst the cost of entry and tour is priced at £4 per person for non-members. Anyone who is keen to attend must express their commitment beforehand as places are limited. Please email: srazavi@live.co.uk to reserve a place.
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For further information, please contact Sahand Razavi at srazavi@live.co.uk