There may be a turn by the Co-op Archive volunteers! Not to be missed! (No idea what it will be but scouring the plays and songs in the collections).

Book your place! 🔥 TROUBLE AT MILL 🔥 Saturday 8th November at Queen Street Mill textile museum - loudly celebrating Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s This Slavery with riotous fun and steam engines and art and theatre and music and snacks RickardSisters.com/trouble

In this week’s newsletter, we celebrate the life of Josephine Baker, the groundbreaking performer who captivated Anthony Burgess (author of A Clockwork Orange). In his own words, he explains what made her special Subscribe for FREE weekly posts: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/la-grande-...

In July, the project ‘Sites of fracture: 20th century Ireland at the margins of capitalism’ held the launch day ‘Useful histories at the Co-op Archive’. It was during this year’s UN International Year of Co-operatives. A report can be found on the project website. tinyurl.com/5n8pnuff

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Thank you On the Eighth Day Co-operative for inviting me to your 55th birthday. A fabulous event at the cafe and a brilliant exhibition too. Anna and Nico came to visit the Co-op Archive to look through the collection to find exhibition material from the Worker’s Co-ops collections

Super Chartism Day in Huddersfield. A great set of speakers and subjects. PhD student dnhamilton.bsky.social worked over the summer at the Co-op Archives and produced an extensive subject guide on Chartism available on the website. www.co-operativeheritage.coop/collection-2

Nearly time for this year’s Chartism Day being held in Huddersfield. It’s where my Grandma lived. I’ll pick up some Yorkshire Mixture and Pontefract cakes for my dad. If you are going via Manchester I may see you on the replacement bus! sslh.org.uk/2025/07/17/c...

New blogpost at the Co-operative Heritage Trust from one of the volunteers who became interested in finding out more about the National Labour Exchange established by Robert Owen in 1832. tinyurl.com/3dzdfyen

Still just about time to book your ticket for Chartism Day www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chartism-d...

On the newsletter this week, find out how Anthony Burgess’s most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange, has been represented by cover artists over the years. Subscribe for FREE for weekly posts about Anthony Burgess and more: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com/p/the-illust...

A great time at this year’s #DCDC2025 conference at Durham this year. So many take homes and brilliant conversations to re-invigorate, re-connect, make new connections and learn from. Also a mooch round a place I hadn’t visited before and a chance to see some brilliant buildings and exhibits.

PRE-ORDER NOW: A Shorter Ulysses, edited by Anthony Burgess is coming in September. It's a companion piece to Burgess's A Shorter Finnegans Wake, and includes Blooms of Dublin, his musical based on Ulysses. Pre-order at the Burgess Foundation's shop: uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...

Manchester Digital Music Archive have been helping Paul Banks (@mcrscenestories on Instagram) and the videos of interviews about all aspects of the Manchester Music Scene can be found on the website. Enjoy your Friday! tinyurl.com/5t3ekjvz

🚨 New blog post: 'A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966' looks at the town's new 'neighbourhood unit' created in the 1950s and two innovative but troubled projects of the 1960s: municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/a...

We are recruiting! Are you a qualified archivist who is looking for an 18-month, full-time position? Would you like to work in a stunning location with a wide range of collections? Enjoy being part of a team and talking up archives to a wide audience? www.northeastjobs.org.uk/job/Archivis...

Part I of my housing history of Rochdale (HT @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for its great collection of online resources) looks at housing conditions and housing reform before World War II. (Part II looking at post-war housing on Tuesday.) municipaldreams.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/a...

#skyhistorians We are looking forward to our Divergent Minds in the Archive workshops in Cardiff (29 July) & Liverpool (14 Aug). There’s still time to sign up & we are looking for a broad group of archive users! We have travel bursaries & can if needed help with hotel accommodation. More details👇

Available online (or in London HQ) an exhibition on history of prison nursing from our @rcnhistory.bsky.social and @rcnnjf.bsky.social forums with @rcnlibraries.bsky.social #HIstNursing #HistMed Link🔗 www.rcn.org.uk/library-exhi...

"Archives are not inert historical collections. They always stand in an active, dialogic, relation to the questions which the presents puts to the past; and the present always puts its questions differently from one generation to another." Stuart Hall, "Constituting an archive"

I built something! 💚 This directory shows consumer goods-oriented co-operatives and CICs in the UK, with links to websites, socials etc. Great for discovering new orgs. VERY basic functionality, but will work on it - let me know what you think 💚 community-change-directory.netlify.app

This, this, a thousand times this. Past students of mine will recognize something similar as one of my very favourite rants. (Also, WFL 4 Evah)

Two #photography jobs at the V&A London, 3-yr full-time posts to work on the Royal Photographic Society collection. Deadline July 18th. Project Archivist in link below, Project Cataloguer in the next post. 📜🗃️📷📸 Not great pay for London - but fantastic opportunities otherwise!

This Sunday join we're celebrating #co-operatives to mark the UN year of the #co-ops. #IYC2025 Learn about coops from those involved in establishing and running them locally. Enjoy beers from worker-owned @abbeydalebeers.bsky.social's tap takeover, and pizzas and tunes in the garden. #HebdenBridge

Timely intervention from Chris Whitty. 🎯🙏🏻 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

New blog post from one of the volunteers at the Co-operative Heritage Trust tinyurl.com/4xbu7jkd

Pioneering project releases more lost Irish records spanning 700 years

Well then, a story about our upcoming big ol' #Co-operatives Day at the pub from 12-5pm on Sunday 6th July. Come along and learn about co-ops, meet those involved in local co-ops and drink some lush beer and eat some banging pizza. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/arts-and-cul... #IYC2025

SCA are hosting a workshop as part of ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’, an EDI Caucus-funded project investigating neurodivergence and archives. Find out more and apply to take part: www.scottisharchives.org.uk/latest/call-...

Basil Rawson is an excellent example of a labour & socialist figure who saw the Woodcraft Folk as the embodiment of his worldviews. Olewicz's article in this special issue charts Rawson's involvement in WF over 5 decades. For this and more, visit → doi.org/10.61869/CWG... #cooperation

What is it today in Manchester with lots of people wearing leopard print hot pants? On the day I decided not to wear mine 🙄

I’ve had a wonderful couple of weeks, attended conferences, worked with incredible volunteers, had my first trustee meeting @anthonyburgess.bsky.social and my first #Bloomsday event which was wonderful. Music conferences and Sparks to come but today after fighting lurgy my tiny voice has gone.

In Denton for the Whit Friday brass band competition taking place across Tameside, watching a Co-op Band. The other photo is of the CWS brass band in 1972 on their way to a festival in Canada sporting newly-designed heraldic pocket badges by CWS Menswear especially for the trip. lnkd.in/ep9E2srJ

I’ve been warned of many things in archives that can be harmful (contents included) but green books is a new one for me.

Sharing this widely. #digitalarchives #archives #archivists www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Less than a month to go until the the launch event 'At the Margins of Capitalism: Useful Histories at the Co-op Archive' on 1stJuly. If you are interested in food production and alternatives to capitalism, join us for conversation and archival exploration. tinyurl.com/8y34k69n

I'm starting a new mini-project on childhood cancers in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. It's my first foray into the history of childhood, so I'm looking for any recommendations on key scholarship, archives, and names to look out for. Please share!

In the Manchester area and are interested in food production and alternatives to capitalism? Join me at the Co-operative Archive on 1 July for conversation and archival exploration. @cooperativesuk.bsky.social @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-the-mar...

I’m looking forward to this!

excited to share that I spoke with @coseyfannitutti.bsky.social about love, work, overtone chanting, exorcism thru sound, the cornet, hull, her new album 2t2 + more for the cover of this month's wire magazine. thank you @zoezopf.bsky.social + @saving-throw.bsky.social for the assist. buy a magazine!

It was really great to work with DISC on creating this film to introduce the Co-op Archives and how to make the best of a visit. From checking the website before to what to expect when you come to the build it’s all there. m.youtube.com/watch?v=N6uH...

📢 HiDDEN Network is recruiting! HiDDEN are seeking an inspiring, forward-thinking Independent Chair to lead their vibrant community of heritage organisations into an exciting new chapter. Find out more & apply here: bit.ly/IndependentC... 🗓️ Deadline: 6 June 2025, 5pm

Labour History Review is celebrating its 90th issue. Join us and @livunipress.bsky.social in celebrating. Some highlights of the past decade are open access throughout May. sslh.org.uk/2025/05/01/l...

Awake early and the birds are beginning to chatter. Above it all I can hear an owl close by. There are a few in the woodland behind the houses and I used to hear them a lot so feel reassured when I do.

Reserve your free ticket - places strictly limited. #Chartism #LabourHistory www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-halst...

Where am I today? The sun is out and the grass is being cut. It smells glorious.

#JobAlert We're hiring a Project Officer for the Christy Moore Collection at ITMA. This position will co-ordinate the development of an in-house public exhibition space for the personal archival collection of Christy Moore, which he has donated to ITMA. Details: www.itma.ie/news/job-pos...

New blog post from the Co-operative Archives from one of our volunteers on Christian Socialism. tinyurl.com/4cvb6a47

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM