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SUMMARY:Abel Heywood\, Manchester’s Radical Mayor
DESCRIPTION:Meet author Joanna Williams\, whose book Abel Heywood\, the Man who Built the Town Hall\, was published by the History Press on 1 September 2017. \nAbel Heywood (1810-93)\, Mayor of Manchester\, as chair of the New Town Hall Committee was the leading light behind the construction of the ‘municipal palace’ in Albert Square.  Rising from severe poverty\, he had a long and successful career as a newspaper distributor\, publisher\, printer\, and wallpaper manufacturer.  He was especially committed throughout his life to his work on the Manchester Council\, becoming Mayor twice.  He became only the third Freeman of the City\, and was the first from a humble background. \nHe was involved in the major radical causes of his day\, from the free press – for which he went to prison in 1832 – to universal suffrage as a Chartist.  In his eagerness to promote the latter\, he even sought a parliamentary seat for Manchester in 1859 and 1865\, but his working class origins and his radicalism failed to win over the vital middle class vote.  As a radical liberal he espoused causes in Europe\, such as Hungarian\, Italian and German nationalism\, and campaigned about the Crimean War and the Eastern Crisis in the Balkans.  At times of crisis\, notably the Cotton Famine in the 1860s\, he was prominent in fund-raising and otherwise managing the situation\, and very cordial relations were established between Manchester and the USA at this period. \nHe worked tirelessly throughout his life to develop Manchester’s infrastructure\, notably as chair of the Paving and Sewage Committee\, and took a lead in the construction of railways and the tram system.   But his driving force was his own early experiences of squalor in Angel Meadow\, which gave him an acute awareness of the needs of the city’s poorest inhabitants; public health\, education\, co-operation and temperance were all areas in which he laboured to improve their lot.  Nor did he neglect the city’s cultural life; he encouraged the council to take on the Royal Institution as its art gallery\, and was a patron of the College of Art.  He assiduously focused on the development of Manchester to create a great city in every sense. \nAlthough there are no personal papers\, except for his will\, the local press reported his activities in such detail that it is possible to gain an idea of the kind of man he was and what were his aspirations. There are also archives\, such as the records of Manchester Corporation\, private papers of his colleagues\, and Home Office papers which reveal some of the inner workings of local power.  The latter indicate some of the murkier aspects of his dealings with the government\, as it appears that he informed on his fellow Chartists to prevent a violent uprising in 1840\, for example.  Examination of his election campaigns in the general elections of 1859 and 1865 show similarly that he was not above some manipulation in tailoring his choice of topics to his audiences; he was a clever politician. \nThe new Town Hall project was Abel’s overriding preoccupation for at least ten years\, and his worst public humiliation was the refusal of Queen Victoria to open it and bestow a knighthood on him. The reasons for the royal snub remain a matter of conjecture to this day.  But the city honoured him\, and it was he who presided at the opening ceremonies and was acclaimed by the Liberal establishment\, being granted the freedom of the city in 1891. \nThis event is free – no need to book\, just drop in
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/abel-heywood-manchesters-radical-mayor/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
CATEGORIES:Signing
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories\, Hidden Historians
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Histories presents Hidden Histories\, Hidden Historians\, a Heritage Lottery Fund supported exhibition. Five groups from across Greater Manchester have explored their own hidden histories to create a multi-media exhibition that includes archive photography\, historical research\, video and oral histories. \nFree – just drop in
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/hidden-histories-hidden-historians/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Digital Home Movie Day
DESCRIPTION:  \nHome Movie Day is an annual worldwide celebration of family films – the North West Film Archive is looking for those more recent home movies which were ‘born digital’ and might be trapped in an old device.  Bring us your gadgets\, cards and phones and our experts will do their best to retrieve your movies and make it possible to enjoy and share them again! \nFree – please drop in
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/digital-home-movie-day/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
CATEGORIES:Archives
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170623T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170831T170000
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SUMMARY:Manchester Voices - Interactive Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Manchester Voices is an ongoing project investigating and celebrating the accents\, dialects\, and people of Greater Manchester. It looks at the ways in which our use of language makes us who we are and explores perceptions of the way we speak across the region. Following a successful tour of the ten boroughs in our Accent Van\, we are launching an interactive exhibition where you can hear voices from across the region and listen to people talking about themselves and their communities\, the way they speak\, and their sense of local and regional identity. There will be various spaces and installations telling the story of our findings so far\, including interactive map displays and audio/video clips. Visitors will be invited to add their own voices to the project. \nWe will be tweeting under #MCRVoices \n Free – please drop in
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/manchester-voices-interactive-exhibition-2/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:ArchivesMoved
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition is based on a project that brought together young dancers and actors from Manchester and the North West in an exciting exploration of historical Manchester. By using archive photographs\, artefacts and music as far back as the 1800s and merging them with modern photography\, it allows audiences to experience a new outlook on Manchester’s past and present. \nThe process began by gathering the most interesting and thought provoking images in the archive collection. It was important to capture the diversity of Manchester and to recognise its industrial roots. Through the timeline of archives\, what stood out the most was how well images and sounds were able to capture a general sentiment and mood of that period: whether that was the melancholic industrial environment; the strong community settings at Hulme Carnival or the vibrant summer months in Piccadilly Gardens. \nOnce images were collected\, they became a stimulus for the movement and emotion of the dancers. Characters and certain personas formed by imitating the expressions on the people’s faces in the images. Actors listened to sound archives and their responses were filmed. Mood and feelings of certain images were embodied through shape and movement. \nUsing editing software the modern photos were merged with the original archives\, resulting in this exhibition. A map of Manchester in the exhibition shows the forever expanding history of arts in the city. \nArchivesMoved was supported by Archives+ and funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund
URL:https://librarylive.co.uk/event/archivesmoved/
LOCATION:Archives+ Ground Floor
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