Showcasing the 'Great Women of Manchester'
08 Jun 2016
On Wednesday, 8 June and Friday, 10 June (both days 2-3pm) at The John Rylands Library, Deansgate
Supporting Manchester Histories Festival, the Library will be celebrating the city's most pioneering women and sharing captivating images from their Guardian Archive.
'Great Women of Manchester' Collection encounters will explore the story behind a selection of rare items from the Library's women's history collections. A hand-written manuscript from Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell will be displayed, as will a letter from renowned suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst to C P Scott, former editor of the Manchester Guardian (see image).
The Guardian Archive will be the focus of the Library's presence at Manchester Histories Festival’s Celebration Day on Saturday, 11 June. The archive is one of the Library’s most significant collections, depicting the newspaper’s key place in the city’s rich history of campaigns for social and political reform. Visitors to the stand will be invited to examine the photographs uncovered from this archive in the hope of identifying some of the staff, locations, occupations and machinery captured in the images. Manchester has produced some remarkable women and these pioneers have made a significant contributions to how we live our lives today.
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