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Month: May 2023

Posted on May 12, 2023May 23, 2023

The men and pubs of Hanky Park

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 …

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Posted on May 5, 2023May 5, 2023

Memories Workshop

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 …

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Posted on May 5, 2023September 11, 2023

Event: A Taste of Honey, 1961. Screening at the Working Class Movement Library on May 25th

"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. …

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