Tony Benn at the Bridgewater!

My latest e-newsletter from the People’s History Museum - due to re-open this autumn, and I’m counting the days! – informs me that Tony Benn has written the foreword to the museum’s forthcoming book with the University of Central Lancashire ‘The British Labour Movement and Imperialism’; and, even more excitingly, that there’s an Evening With Tony [...]

As promised!

Sorry, this post is going to be a bit massive. Like I said I’ve been meaning to do this for ages, and since I started it I’ve been delayed by swine flu and #freeBevaniteEllie and stuff.
In the couple of months since I was last regularly blogging, I have…
- been listening to a lot of Lily [...]

Things from the Manchester Oxfam minutes

Kept meaning to put this up – this is from the event at the Town Hall on the 16th October, where all the knitters who contributed to the blanket met up for a launch event to celebrate their hard work. There was also a film documenting the process of creating the blanket which (lest ye [...]

Photography competition

The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies is running a ‘What Is Crime?’ competition for photographs which take a look at crime from a different angle – hidden crimes against women/children/old people, the crime of inequality, crimes against the environment etc. Should be worth a look if photography’s your thing.

Grace Love TV

So, my boyfriend is in Cheltenham, so Audrey and I have decided to take E4’s advice and have a girls’ night in. The verdict so far? We still love Ugly Betty more than life itself. We are disappointed with Samantha Who?, which is big on idea but not so good on the realisation – basically [...]

This weekend I will be going to…

…well, possibly Walsall, since my old schoolfriend Rachel is getting married. (The ‘possibly’ is because she only invited me five days ago. Over Facebook. But that’s probably a whole other blog.) But I will also definitely be going to the Exodus Festival, a celebration of Manchester’s refugee communities – I’d never heard about this before [...]