with Phil Portus Please join us for our second public talk with a photographer of Salford’s ‘slum’ clearance and redevelopment during the 1960s and 70s. Phil Portus, whose work is well established and documented (https://www.philportus.co.uk/) will speak about his documentary project in Salford that started in the mid 1970s. His evocative photography showcases and juxtaposes […]
with Don Rainger While the exhibition Invisible Cities is on show at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery, we are organising a couple of public talks. The first one is by Don Rainger, a local citizen who documented slum clearance and redevelopment from the late 1960s to the 1980s. The exhibition features several of his […]
Public Talk at the Working Class Movement Library July 18, 2024, 5pm to 6:30pm As The Modern Backdrop is coming to an end, we are now working on a new collaboration with the Working Class Movement Library. We established a network of members of the public, artists, academics and museum/library professionals to investigate notions of […]
We are very proud to announce the our two-year project The Modern Backdrop won the Best Community and Public Engagement Initiative-Prize at the Celebration of Innovation Festival. The Festival recognises research that facilitates connections with communities and that demonstrates innovative ways of thinking, researching and that adds to the impact the university has locally and […]