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 […]
People and houses in Salford between c1890 and 1970. Drawings and research by Laura Janicka This post is based on our exhibition that was on show between the 25th January and 25th of April, 2024 at the Working Class Movement Library. Portrait photographs of Salford working-class people are set alongside photos and architectural drawings that illustrate […]
Free public Talk by Colin Stuhlfelder at the Working Class Movement Library, Salford. JUNE 20, 2024 5:00-6:30PM All welcome The research project The Modern Backdrop is nearing its end and we have since initiated an open-to-all research network on the study of ‘class.’ Part of the network is to collaborate with the Working Class Movement […]
The exhibition Invisible Cities will be open at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery until September 1, 2024. It is accompanied by an exhibition catalogue of the same title but with slightly more contents. Invisible Cities juxtaposes different types of images – private photographs, architectural plans, TV and film stills, maps – and memories of […]
by Bill Longshaw I was lucky enough to meet Coronation Street creator Tony Warren when he opened my exhibition, ‘1962’ at the Lowry in 2002. He was notoriously reluctant to talk about the street, so most of the information here comes from PhD research, conducted around the same time. During these studies, I also met set […]
Photography Exhibition at the Working Class Movement Library Opening Event 25th January 4-6pm Join us on Thursday, 25th of January 4-6pm at the Working Class Movement Library to open our exhibition In the Face of Dwelling. This exhibition combines portrait photographs of Salford working-class people with photos and architectural drawings that illustrate the types of […]
The first episode of Coronation Street was shown on Friday, 9th December 1960. A year later, on December 2nd 1961 the Observer published the article “The endless Street…” marvelling over the extraordinary success of the soap opera. According to the website Corriepedia on average, each episode had drawn more than 13 million viewers in front […]