The Manchester Martyrs - Salford Working Class Movement Library
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The Working Class Movement Library
Here is a short clip from the beginning of my ten minute promotional video for the Working Class Movement Library. The full film plays in the front room of the library as an introduction to visitors.
Working Class Movement Library
Fenian
Fenian was an umbrella term for the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood, fraternal organisations dedicated to the establishment of an independent Irish Republic in the 19th and early 20th century. The name Fenian was first applied by John O'Mahony to the members of the Irish republican group that he founded in the United States in 1848. O'Mahony, who was a Celtic scholar, named the American wing of the movement after the Fianna. In Gaelic Ireland these were warrior bands of young men who lived apart from society and could be called upon in times of war.
The term Fenian is still used today, especially in Northern Ireland and Scotland, where its original meaning has widened to include all supporters of Irish nationalism. It has also been used as a demeaning term for Irish Catholics and Catholics in general in the British Isles. Irish nationalists, while honouring the 19th century Fenians, more often describe themselves as nationalist or republican.
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Manchester History - Manchester Martyrs 1867
places and images connected to the Fenian Ambush of 1867 and the Manchester Martyrs.
The music Roisin Dubh is by the Dubliners.
Manchester Martyrs
The Manchester Martyrs - William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien - were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, an organisation dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland
Salford Town
Ewan MacColl's powerful anti-war song, inspired by his home town of Salford and the docks at Manchester, and the attitudes of at least some WWII soldiers. I certainly knew men who felt this way.
The accompaniment is played on a pre-WWII Hohner Modell 1 melodeon tuned in Bb/E, and the recording was made using a
Rode NT1A microphone and an ART MP/C.
The images come from the Wikimedia commons:
1. By Unknown - oldukphotos.com (with permission), Public Domain,
2. By unrecorded - E Chambre Hardman Archive (archive at Wayback Machine, original at E Cambre Hardman Archive), Public Domain,
3. By Ordnance Survey - old OS map, Public Domain,
The Last Clarion House
Documentary about the Last Clarion House, Pendle, Lancashire.
DOP Nick Gordon-Smith
Editor Cliff West
Music by Vini Reilly, Durutti Column
Director Charlotte Bill
Clapham Film Unit and Clarion House
Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund
Equality: Thomas Paine by Oasis Media Academy, Salford
Students from Oasis Media Academy take a contemporary look at the Thomas Paine Collection at the Working Class Movement Library, Salford.
An Introduction to JMW Solicitors
JMW Solicitors is a law practice based in the heart of Manchester's Business district. Working with a wide range of private and corporate clients the provide a full range of legal services.
Takis Fotopoulos on the Working Class Movement
This is a multi-part video interview with T. Fotopoulos, the founder of the Inclusive Democracy project, on the rise of the neoliberal phase of modernity (mid 70s - now) and the consequent emergence of neoliberal globalisation, which was established formally in UK with the rise of Thatcherism and in US with the rise of Reaganomics, although the systemic structural trends for it took off much earlier, with the opening of markets and the huge expansion of multinational corporations.
Takis' interview is set about many aspects of Systemic Violence, both indirect and direct, against the vast majority of people around the world and especially in Britain, which were established or expanded throughout the now-omnipresent neoliberal/social-liberal consensus: From the (never-ending) war on terrorism to the true nature of May '68 and from the Working Class movement to Academic Repression, this is an important multi-part interview for every citizen who would like to know the history and nature of what the Reformist Left and the mass media call just neoliberal politics, in a simplistic, if not suspicious, way , disorienting people from the crucial fact that, as long as markets remain open and liberalised, governments of countries integrated into the system of the internationalised market economy will have to follow basically the same policies, either they are conservative, or socialist, green or fundamentalist.
Takis Fotopoulos' Archive:
The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy:
The Inclusive Democracy Network:
Contact T.F.:
editors@inclusivedemocracy.org
Fallen Angels Salford and its role in the recovery of its participants
An interview with Anthony Moores, Amanda Kinsey and Phil Kinsey of Salford's Fallen Angels Dance Theatre.
Salford University
Student Video Services a service provided by specialise in providing student video to departments and institutions as a method of driving student recruitment.
The University of Salford is a campus university based in Salford, Greater Manchester, England with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of Manchester city centre, on the A6, opposite the former home of the physicist, James Prescott Joule and the Working Class Movement Library.
It is situated in 60 acres (240,000 m2) of parkland on the banks of the River Irwell. The Complete University Guide ranked Salford 97th out of 116 institutions in 2011.
Joe in Liverpool
Extracts from an interview with Big Issue North vendor Joe in Liverpool. In an honest and frank conversation, he recalls how gambling led to his own homelessness, how the death of a friend helped him overcome a drink problem and and how his love for Elvis started on the night the King of Rock and Roll died.
Working Class Heroes - Documentary
Working Class Heroes is a film by youth-leadership and social change charity RECLAIM. The film focuses on working class heritage within rapidly changing communities in Manchester. It investigates the idea that the lifeblood of estates is community and identity and how that can change drastically when your surroundings do the same. We have interviewed residents and representatives from Hulme and Ancoats who can tell you first hand that it is a continuous battle.
Directed by Colin Stone, the project was funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.
Radio Ballad - Ward & Goldstone engineering factory
Radio Ballad inspired by the original 1950s ones by Ewan MacColl.
Produced as part of the Invisible Histories project in collaboration between the Working Class Movement Library ( students from Buile Hill High School, and Harriet Hall and Dan Beesley.
Ward & Goldstone was one of Salford's biggest industrial employers, especially in the 1950s.
Founded in 1882 by James Ward & Meyer Hart Goldstone, it remained a family firm especially during the era of Sampson 'Mr Sam' Goldstone.
Ward & Goldstone's manufactured a range of electrical goods, including cable, plastic mouldings for plugs and car parts. It was a big supplier to Woolworth's.
The Frederick Road factory closed in 1986. The firm continues to exist in a form as part of Ionix (formerly Volex).
Find out more about the Invisible Histories project at
BBC Radio History for Schools 1984 19th Century Working Class Movements The Chartists
Radio Ballad - Richard Haworth's cotton mill
Radio Ballad inspired by the original 1950s ones by Ewan MacColl.
Produced as part of the Invisible Histories project in collaboration between the Working Class Movement Library ( students from Buile Hill High School, and Harriet Hall and Dan Beesley.
Richard Haworth's mill (affectionately known locally as Dickie Haworth's) opened in 1872 on its site near to what is now Salford Quays.
It was held up for a long while as a model of working practices and many other mill owners visited to learn how the mill ran.
At its peak, the factory producing a staggering 30 million yards of cloth each year (that's 27 432 kilometres or slightly further than flying from Manchester to New Zealand and back!).
While the Ordsall Lane mill closed in the 1970s, the company still operates in the North West of England.
Find out more about the Invisible Histories project at
Chapter 15 THE MANCHESTER CHARTIST by Malc Cowle
Malc Cowle reads the final chapter of THE MANCHESTER CHARTIST, the first book in the DIRTY POLITICS: HARD TIMES Trilogy of Chartism series. The complete book is also available in paperback, via penandmouth.com
All profits from sales go to the Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WX.