azmitchell, Author at The Modern Backdrop

October 7, 2022September 22, 2022

The Changing Face of Salford: Michael Goodger’s film trilogy

In this guest post, Marion Hewitt, former Head of the North West Film Archive, discusses the background to The Changing Face of Salford, a film …

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September 9, 2022September 13, 2022

Love on the Dole

‘They call this part “Hanky Park”’. This was how the Salford-born writer Walter Greenwood opened his breakthrough novel Love on the Dole, published for the …

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August 26, 2022January 25, 2023

From Love on the Dole to Walter Greenwood Court

This is a guest post from Professor Chris Hopkins, Emeritus Professor of English from Sheffield Hallam University where he was Head of the Humanities Research …

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August 19, 2022August 13, 2022