Programme 2018/19
17 Oct – The Good War? The Lancashire Working Class and the Second World War
Dr Neil Redfern
14 Nov – The Women who said ‘Yes’: rediscovering the 17 women who stood for Parliament in the General Election 1918
Dr Alison Ronan
05 Dec – Amateur sport in the North West above and beyond: aviation and motor-boating before the First World War
Dr Craig Horner
16 Jan – A Short History of How Manchester Built a Dedicated LGBT+ Centre
Emily Crompton
13 Feb – Soldiers as Citizens – Popular Politics and the 19th Century Military
Dr Nick Mansfield
13 Mar – Peterloo 1819-2019
Prof Robert Poole
10 Apr – Manchester and the Spanish Civil War
Adele Douglas
All the talks will start at 6.30pm, Room 307, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester, M15 6LL. All Welcome.