The Modern Backdrop: Blog Posts

This week we are featuring a guest blog from Professor Peter Walker, an architect and academic at the University of Salford. Tucked away inside Selina …

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Get your 2023 diaries and calendars at the ready! From 20th January to 21st April 2023 we will be running a small exhibition of the …

Continue reading "Exhibition announcement – Capturing the Modern Backdrop: Shirley Baker photographing Salford"

Eddy Rhead of the Modernist Society has written our guest post for this week. Eddy writes about cinemas in Salford and specifically The Ambassador. For …

Continue reading "The Rise and Fall of Salford’s Super Cinema"

On November 19th, 2022 the Salford Museum and Art Gallery hosted the video and sound installation with poetry "New Perceptions of Familiar Places." The event …

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Sarah Hardacre, a practicing artist with strong connections to Salford has written our guest post for this week. She has kindly allowed us to feature …

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This week we have another guest post by Dr Deborah Woodman from the University of Salford. One of the cornerstones of northern working-class life was …

Continue reading "Pubs, Brewers and the 1960s Slum Clearance in Salford"

Please join us at the Salford Museum and Art Gallery on Saturday, 19th November 12noon, 1pm and 2pm. We are showcasing a video installation. New …

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Eve Blezard. An Estate of Mind: Resident memories of a community through timeJonny Smith. “We Cannot Cling to the Old Dreams Anymore”:  Exploring Post-War Change in …

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