MHF 2016 Programme

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A DAY BY DAY GUIDE TO WHAT’S ON DURING MHF 2016 DAILY 126 Withington Road Conscience and War Discover Manchester Get Creative Northern Women Sense Our Streets Audio Tour SnapShot Stories of Sacrifice Take Me Back to Manchester Thomas Legh: Adventurer, Hero, Saviour Voices of Kosovo Waterhouse’s Difficult Spire Up Close FRIDAY 3 JUNE Around the World with the Fusiliers Belle Vue: Showground of the World Canary Girls Family Art & Heritage Trail Gentry Families of Manchester: The North Going Underground Hidden History Mapping Manchester M-HISTORIES WEEKENDER Making Manchester Manchester’s Underground Canal: its past and its future Queer Noise Radical Manchester A Queer Revue!

Talkin’ ‘bout that Representation Time Travelling at Manchester Cathedral

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SATURDAY 4 JUNE Angel Meadow Community Histories Day 4 Angel Meadow Tour 25 The Battle for the Ballot 12 Castlefield: from haulage to heritage 24 Creating and Using Archives Workshop 5 Commemorating Bradford Pit 17 Dare to Be Free: women in trade unions 20 John Dalton 25 Dear Friend: Collectors & Commissioners, Women in the Arts 5 Discovering Little Italy (TOUR IN ITALIAN) 26 Gentry Families of Manchester 29 Going Underground 17 Longsight Communities 16 M-HISTORIES WEEKENDER 2 Manchester District Music Archives present: Activist/Archivist 5 MLFHS Saturday Help Desk with Rootschat.com 5 Manchester Music 24 Manchester’s LGBT Centre 25 Mr Scruff Keep It Unreal 16th Birthday Party 12 Narbi Price – Codeword 17 Oral History Workshop 4 Progress 17 Progress Launch event 18 Quarry Bank present LipService Theatre Company 12 32

Quizzing Snakes and Ladders Reviving the Lost Art of Make Do and Mend Robust Research Scribble Your Street Super Saturday Truly Madly Brutal

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SUNDAY 5 JUNE Amani Live 13 A Walk about the History of Walking in Manchester 26 Alexandra Park: Queen of Parks 26 Belle Vue Roadshow 11 Big Artist Sunday 11 Commemorating Bradford Pit 17 Cottonopolis 13 Destination Ireland 2 Dr Alison Slater on Fashion on the Ration 26 Fishing the Dustbowl 13 Manchester Peace Trail 26 Manchester: City of Innovation 26 Meet the Researcher: Dr Alison Slater on wartime dress in Lancashire 20 Music in Manchester During World War 1 12 The Peterloo Massacre 26 Photographing Cheetham Hill – Then & Now 6 Progress 17 Stories of Women and Science 27 Victoria Baths Open Day 18 MONDAY 6 JUNE 1926 and up 6 Angel Meadow’s Quiz Night 6 Commemorating Bradford Pit 17 Finding Henshaws’ History 6 Going Underground 17 Gtr Mcr Histories & Heritage Social Network 6 Hidden History 4 Mapping Manchester 4 Local History Library Introduction 6 Making Manchester 2 Manchester Architecture 27 Mcr & Lancs Family History Society Help Desk 6 TUESDAY 7 JUNE A Life in Sound Ardwick Green Histories Tour Commemorating Bradford Pit Community Showcase Engels & Marx: the Frock Coated Communists The Glass Industry of Ancoats Going Underground Hidden History Mapping Manchester Idle Chatter?

Making Manchester Mcr & Lancs Family History Society Help Desk NOMA Craft Workshops Together Trust

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“Ugly, smokey Manchester, dear, busy, earnest, noble-working Manchester” 20 WEDNESDAY 8 JUNE A Message HOME Calling Blighty 14 An Audience with FA Cup Heroes at Manchester United Museum 2 The Archaeology of Manchester’s Origins 21 Archives+ Showcase Day 19 Bright Club Manchester – Histories 3 14 Commemorating Bradford Pit 17 Castlefield: Birthplace of Manchester 27 Craft Unravelled 27 Domestic Duties on Lark Hill Place 28 Elizabethan Theatre Facts and Fantasy 21 Exploration Handling Session 7 Fishy Tales & Crafty Futures 19 The Glass Industry of Ancoats 17 Going Underground 17 Great Women of Manchester 7 Heritage Bus Rides 27 Hidden History 4 Mapping Manchester 4 Idle Chatter?

21 Making Manchester 2 Mcr & Lancs Family History Society Help Desk 6 Mcr & Lancs Family History Specialist Help Desk 7 Manchester Ballads Performance & Handling Session 13 Manchester’s Underground Canal: its past and its future 22 Stick Your Oar In 7 THURSDAY 9 JUNE 10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World 28 1599: a True Story of the Elizabethan Court 14 Aspects of Aging 14 The Boys in Blue: Manchester City FC on Film 14 Commemorating Bradford Pit 17 Dear Friend: Backwards & in Heels, Women & Politics 8 Famous Scientists, Engineers and Medics of Didsbury and South Manchester 22 The Glass Industry of Ancoats 17 Godlee Observatory Tour 28 Going Underground 17 Hidden History 4 Idle Chatter?

21 Manchester Central Library & Civic Pride 22 Mapping Manchester 4 Making Manchester 2 Mcr & Lancs Family History Society Help Desk 6 Manchester Soldier Manchester Historian 22 NOMA Craft Family Workshops 11 OUT! LGBT Histories Digital Launch Event 8 Radical Hero: an audience with Betty Tebbs 22 Radicals Assemble! After Hours at the PHM 19 Something’s in the Water 28 We are the Suffragists 14 What the Dickens?

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FRIDAY 10 JUNE Gaskell: The Musical!

Going Underground Great Women of Manchester Hidden History Mapping Manchester Jewish Manchester Making Manchester Mcr & Lancs Family History Society Help Desk Mcr & Lancs Family History Society WWI Workshop Memories of Solidarity Victorian Slums & Squalor: Angel Meadow Walking Through Manchester’s Origins We are the Suffragists SATURDAY 11 JUNE Appley Meteorite Celebration Day Commemorating Bradford Pit Discovering Little Italy Gaskell: The Musical!

Gentry Families of Manchester: The North Going Underground Heritage Bus Rides The Little People’s History Museum – Beeing Special Manchester and the Peppered Moth Manchestour MLFHS Saturday Help Desk with UK BMD Narbi Price – Codeword OUT! An introduction to researching archives Police Museum Open Day The Portico Library Open Day The Portico Library Tour Progress Suffragette City/The Pankhursts Views of an Antique Land WWI Networking Event SUNDAY 12 JUNE 90 Years in Didsbury 1926 – 2016 Commemorating Bradford Pit Edgar Wood Families, Money and Death Garden Party at Wythenshawe Hall The History of Manchester in 20 Objects Jennifer Reid at Quarry Bank Manchester Central Library Sunday Fun Day Manchestour No Power on Earth Progress Views of an Antique Land Will and Anne WoManchester Cycle Tour

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