This week we feature a guest post from Eddy Rhead of the Modernist Society written as a response to a news clip on Hanky Park which recently featured on the BBC Archive twitter account. Recently a news clip from 1969 appeared on the wonderful BBC Archive site which looked at the last days of the […]
Last month we held a small in person workshop at the Working Class Movement Library with some of our oral history interviewees. We wanted to give them the opportunity to meet each other and to share, compare and contrast their memories of growing up and living in Salford from the 1960s onwards and the changes […]
“A Taste of Honey” tells the story Jo, of a teenage girl who must manage on her own after her mother remarries and abandons her. She moves in together with Geoffrey a gay co-worker. After a one-night-stand with a Black sailor, she becomes pregnant and Geoffrey assumes the role of the unborn child’s father. When […]