The People’s Papers – Revisiting 1970s Manchester
Join us for a lively and participatory talk exploring Greater Manchester's legacy of 1970s activist community newspapers and print culture.
Greater Manchester has an amazing legacy of alternative and community newspapers from the 1970s – offering us a window into the everyday issues, groups, places, events and organising efforts of the time – yet they are often overlooked or rarely known about today. Many have limited or almost no online presence making them hard to access or discover. Join us to learn more!
As part of the People’s Papers research project with the Working Class Movement Library, this event will provide a space to revisit the 1970s alternative and community newspapers of Greater Manchester and their associated urban histories and activism. PhD researcher Arielle Lawson (at peoples papers) will share an introduction to and overview of the research and what she’s found in the archives so far. Then they’ll be a roundtable discussion to hear from those who were directly involved to better
contextualize these papers and reflect on their own experiences of this time period.
This event is co-hosted by Manchester Histories, the Working Class Movement Library and the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre as well as the Manchester Urban Institute’s Cities, Politics, and Economies
research group, the University of Manchester’s Library & Archive Studies Programme and the Institute for Cultural Practices.
This event is FREE to attend but booking required. Reserve your place HERE.
