Invisible Cities – Exhibition Opening
On Wednesday 22nd May we marked the opening of our final exhibition of the Modern Backdrop with a special viewing. It was attended by friends …
Final Exhibition – ‘Invisible Cities’
‘Invisible Cities: Salford before, during and after redevelopment, 1952 to 1974’ is our final exhibition for the Modern Backdrop and will open at Salford Museum …
Shaping the Modern Backdrop – a co-curation event
A much belated Happy New Year to our readers. As we enter the final stage of the Modern Backdrop, work is underway to design and …
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Working Class Movement Library, Salford
This week we have a guest post from Belinda Scarlett, Library Manager at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford. Belinda writes about the Library's …
Help us curate our exhibition
In Spring/Summer 2024 we will be holding our final project exhibition at Salford Museum and Art Gallery. To help us prepare to display the findings …
A request for photos of the ‘modern’ backdrop
Since we started the Modern Backdrop project in April 2022, many of you have kindly shared with us your photographs of Salford 'as it was', …
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All hail the donkey stone!
We are fascinated by the lost tradition of ‘donkey stoning’ and want to find a donkey stone to exhibit in our final project exhibition in …
Have we found Bella?
The ‘knocker-up’ has really captivated us here at the Modern Backdrop HQ. In this weeks’ blog post we are coming back to share our progress …
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 …
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 …