growing bibliography on the continuing hold of the MoD on land that they requisitioned for the war efforts. Peter Coates,…
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commons regulation as ‘accumulation by dispossession’
I’m reappreciating Alun Howkins’s study of parliamentary enclosure in the 19th century: ‘The Use and Abuse of the English Commons,…
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most radical street? exhibition moved to new homes
You can see one of the panels of my People’s History Museum exhibition, ‘The most radical street in Manchester?’ in…
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‘For the People’ day of talks, Manchester, 9 November 2019
The Modernist Society are holding a super day of talks on the democratisation of design in mid 20th century Britain.…
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Peterloo bicentenary commemorations 2019
Friday 16 August Saturday 17 August Sunday 18 August
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The most radical street in Manchester? exhibition on now at the People’s History Museum
20 July-22 September 2019 Go take a look on the 2nd floor at my exhibition on sites of protest and…
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millstone grit vs chalk
I am an upland person. I grew up surrounded on three sides by the foothills of the southern Pennines. I…
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common rights 1965
I’m coming back to earlier archival research I did on common rights and the Commons Registration Act 1965. Key reading…
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“They were simply a part of everything you saw”
“You could not escape the moors. They did not impose themselves. They simply surrounded and waited. They were withdrawn, they…
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