Social Housing in Salford

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 involvement in The Modern Backdrop project and some of the archive material the Library holds. The Working Class Movement Library was founded in the 1950s by socialist historians, trade unionists […]

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’, showing terraced streets and housing before and during the demolition phase in the 1960s and 1970s. Many of these images feature you or your family and friends and they give […]