Local Historian Michael Herbert will be teaching a ten week course on Radical Women 1790 to 1918, starting on Wednesday 4 February at the Working Class Movement Library.
The course will explore the role of women, both in radical movements in the C19th and early C20th, and in movements for women’s rights and will include, Women and the Industrial Revolution…Mary Wollstonecraft and the women radicals of the 1790s…the Luddites…Women at Peterloo…the Owenite Feminists…Chartism…trade unionism…the Women’s Co-operative Guild… and Votes for Women, 1866 to 1918.
Weather permitting the course will include a history walk around old Salford.
Michael said, ” Manchester and Salford were at the heart of the industrial revolution and have been the birthplace of many radical movements for social and political justice. In the course I will be exploring the history of these movements and the role of women within them. We will learn about women such as Mary Fildes, who was at Peterloo; Frances Morrison, who advocated rights for women in the 1830s in Salford; and Lydia Becker, one of the pioneers of Votes for Women in Manchester in the 1860s. ”
Michael is an historian who has been researching, teaching and writing about radical history for many years. His book “Up Then Brave Women”; Manchester’s Radical Women 1819 to 1918 was published in 2012. In 2013 he was filmed with Maxine Peake for a Culture Show item on Peterloo.
The course fee will be £70 (employed) or £50 (retired).It will run between 10.30 and 12.30
For more information or to book a place on the course, please contact Michael : redflagwalks@gmail.com
