Diverse Routes to the Modern City
As Victorian Manchester’s expansion swept across the villages south of the city, including the parishes of Rusholme, Fallowfield, Withington and Didsbury, it drew on global foundations in the labour of enslaved people and brought together people of different nations and connections, cultural and commercial.
Come and join us this autumn for a new series of talks and discussions connecting our local histories with the wider world. Venue: Accessible space in Holy Innocents Church, M14 6JZ Timing: Coffee from 10am Talk and discussion 10.30am Finish 12.15pm Programme
October 5th: Cotton Capital and the Impact of Slavery Matt Stallard, Kerry Pimblott and Jeevan Sanghera A panel of researchers associated with the Race, Roots & Resistance Collective’s Emerging Scholars Programme at Manchester University will present their findings on the relationship between Manchester’s emergence as the world’s first industrial city and global systems of racial slavery and colonialism. Their presentations aim to advance understanding of how profits from slave trading, ownership of enslaved people, and manufacturing with slave-grown cotton funded the cultural and educational development of Manchester as well as foster dialogue about how this history and its far-reaching and destructive legacies should be addressed. If people would like to do some pre- or post-reading relevant to the talk they can visit:
November 2nd: The German Presence in the growing city
Margaret Littler Who were the Germans who came to Manchester, why did they come and where did they live and worship? How did this German and Jewish presence contribute to the life of the City? The talk will draw on a new essay on the German diaspora in Manchester by Margaret Littler, soon to be published in The Simons of Manchester: How one family shaped a city and a nation, ed. by John Ayshford, Martin Dodge, H. S. Jones, Diana Leitch and Janet Wolff (MUP 2024). It sets out contextual factors drawing Germans to nineteenth-century Manchester, the contributions they made to the city and the lasting legacy that remains despite two World Wars. Margaret Littler is Professor Emerita in Contemporary German Culture at the University of Manchester, where she taught for thirty years. This historical project grew out of her main research focus on migration and minority (especially Turkish German) culture in contemporary Germany December 7th: Debunking the myth of 'Poor Paddy'
Neil Smith The Irish Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century Manchester The story of Irish poverty and degradation within the poorest of Manchester's working-class districts has been seen as the dominant factor in shaping and sustaining the image of the Irish migrant as a homogeneous lumpen proletariat. Drawing on my doctoral thesis The Irish Middle Class in Nineteenth-Century Manchester and my joint work with Mervyn Busteed A diasporic elite-the emergence of an Irish middle-class in nineteenth-century Manchester this presentation will examine the presence of a middle-class within the Irish migrant community in nineteenth- century Manchester with particular focus on the censuses between 1841 and 1901. The existing story of Irish migration in Manchester implies that there existed a common socio-economic structure across all the Irish migrant community. Whilst this theme dominates the majority of the histiography this presentation will examine the middle-class Irish story, which has not been substantially investigated and uncovers a far more nuanced picture than previously acknowledged. Having worked as a Senior Biomedical Scientist in the NHS for over thirty years I took earlier retirement and decided to pursue my love of history (particularly Irish history) which culminated in me being awarded a PhD from the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool. Ali Ronan This short talk will look at the life of an Irish trailblazing trade unionist,Mary Quaile (1886-1958) who lived in Longsight. In the early C20th Mary worked in the Clarion Cafe in central Manchester and, influenced by trade unionist Margaret Bondfield, began to agitate for cafe workers to unionise. She became involved in the wider Trade Union Movement in Manchester and by 1911 she was assistant organiser to the Women's Trade Union Council. During WW1 she was a staunch pacifist, devoting her energies to the No Conscription Fellowship. After the war, she was employed by the TGWU and was active in the General Council of the TUC. She was an internationalist, visiting Russia in the 20s. She was involved in supporting the General Strike in 1926. She was a JP and active in the trade union movement until her death, although ill health in the 1930s had forced her to resign her paid work. Hopefully, this talk will add detail to the broad brushstrokes of Mary Quaile's inspirational life. Dr Alison Ronan is an independent scholar. She is involved in the Trailblazers project restoring forgotten women into Manchester's histories. She is also involved in peace education with primary age children in Manchester, and with the Radical Reading Room in the Church of the Ascension in Hulme. If you would like to distribute any flyers then they can be downloaded below.
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