Manchester History Events Autumn 2012

compiled by the

MANCHESTER CENTRE for REGIONAL HISTORY

Saturday 6th October 2012, 11.30-4pm Northern Radical History Network Meeting. For more details, see
http://northernradicalhistory.wordpress.com/ John Dalton Building, MMU, Oxford Road

Saturday 10th November 2012Peace History Conference, Manchester. For more details, see http://www.gmdcnd.org.uk/
The People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields

Sunday 7th October 2012 Manchester on Film, part of Greater Manchester Film Festival For more details, see http://gmffmanchesteronfilmestw.eventbrite.com/

Thursday 15th November 2012, 6pm The Changing Face of Salford (film) For more details, see
http://manchestermodernists.wordpress.com Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

ODEON Manchester - The Printworks

Wednesday, 10th October 2012, 4pm Samantha Oldfield, MMUFrom Butcher to Trainer: James Robinson, Manchesters Athletic Pioneer.
Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU, Oxford Road

Thursday 15th November 2012, 6.30pm Ann Peart- Centre or Margin? Some Unitarians in Manchesters history.
John Dalton Building, MMU, Oxford Road

Friday 12th October 2012, 1.15pm 2.00pm Demon Drink? Temperance and the Working Class changing exhibition tour
The People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields

Wednesday, 21st November 2012, 4pm Henry Miller, History of Parliament ProjectDrink in British visual culture: from Hogarth to the temperance progresses of the 1840s
Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU, Oxford Road

Sunday 14th October 2012, 11.30am 1.00pm Temperance in Manchester, City Centre Trail Take a walk through Manchesters hidden temperance history
The People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields

Friday 23rd November 2012Henry Mayhew: Poverty and the Middle Classes conference, Manchester. Speakers include Carolyn Steedman, see http://mayhewat200.wordpress.com/
University of Manchester, Manchester

Sunday October 2012, 2.30pm 3.30pm Children of Temperance Illustrated talk by Annemarie McAllister
The People's History Museum, Left Bank, Spinningfields

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Saturday 24th November 2012 BSSH North-West Sport & Leisure History Network, MMU, Crewe, Details from D.J.Day@mmu.ac.uk Wednesday, 5th December 2012, 4pm Oliver Wilkinson, Lancaster University Gleams of Hope? British Escapes and Escapades in First World War POW Camps
Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU, Oxford Road

Thursday 18th October 2012, 6pm A City Speaks Manchesters Civic Film For more details, see
http://manchestermodernists.wordpress.com Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester

Thursday 18th October 2012, 6.30pm Clare Debenham- Contested Territory: The birth control movement in the 1920s with particular reference to Manchester and Salford
John Dalton Building, MMU, Oxford Road

Thursday 13th December 2012, 6.30pm Deborah Woodman- 'The Public House and the Commercial Life of Manchester in the first half of the nineteenth century'.
John Dalton Building, MMU, Oxford Road For further information of events, please see the specified websites or contact Fiona Cosson, Research Associate for the Manchester Centre for Regional History, email f.cosson@mmu.ac.uk

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Contested Territory:
The birth control movement in the 1920s with particular reference to Manchester and Salford
By Clare Debenham

Cartoon illustrating Mary Stocks article on the foundation of the Manchester and Salford Mothers Clinic

The birth control movement was strongly linked to the suffrage and I argue it too was essentially a feminist movement. Indeed Mrs Cooke wrote in their magazine, What does it avail a woman that she has the franchise if she cannot call her body her own and is at the mercy of her husband's desires and wishes' The birth controllers, though not as spectacular as the suffragettes, had to contest physical and emotional territory as well as take on the medical profession and politicians. This talk explores the tactics that they employed to locate premises and win the confidence of working class mothers Mary Stocks and Charis Frankenburg founded one of the country's first voluntary birth control clinics in Salford and played an important part in the national campaign. Marie Stopes also maintained strong links with Manchester.

Please join us for this free talk and refreshments on

Thursday 18th October 2012

at

6.30pm
in

Room E223, John Dalton Building,

Manchester Metropolitan University,

Oxford Road, Manchester, M15 6BH For more information, please see our website www.mcrh.mmu.ac.uk or email Fiona Cosson, f.cosson@mmu.ac.uk