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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · 12h

I’ve used double decker buses too but might try bananas!

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 18h

📚NINETY-NINE NOVELS IS BACK! 📚

Series five is starting with an exploration of TITUS GROAN by Mervyn Peake, one of the key fantasy novels of the twentieth century. Editor of Peake's poems, Rob Maslen, joins us to talk all things Gormanghast.

Find us here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Ninety-Nine Novels, new podcast episode on Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · 7d

Latest blog post on Worker Co-ops and iconic Manchester store and cafe available on the Co-operative Heritage Trust website

www.co-operativeheritage.coop/blog/on-the-...

On the Eighth Day

A post about Manchester's iconic food shop and café On the Eighth Day and the history of Worker Co-operatives

www.co-operativeheritage.coop

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · 7d

Latest blog post at the Co-operative Heritage Trust website celebrating 55 years of iconic Manchester food and cafe On The Eighth Day and Worker Co-ops. www.co-operativeheritage.coop/Blog/on-the-...

On the Eighth Day

A post about On the Eighth Day and the history of Worker Co-ops

www.co-operativeheritage.coop

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · 9d

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).

Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social · 9d

Manchester historians!

@historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below!

www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

FastHistory — The Portico Library

Listen to a series of quickfire talks with specially invited guests from across the history and heritage sector, then take to the stage yourself to share your own historical passions!

www.theportico.org.uk

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Rickard Sisters @rickardsisters.com · 15d

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

Event poster for TROUBLE AT MILL: The Radical World of Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. The illustration is of a huge cotton mill on fire, with the townspeople watching. Launch of THIS SLAVERY graphic novel by the RICKARD SISTERS featuring THE COMMONERS' CHOIR JENNIFER REID • BURNLEY YOUTH THEATRE CLARION CHOIR • JULES GIBB • JENNY HARPER
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER
ENGINE IN STEAM FROM 12 NOON • PERFORMANCES 1pm & 2•30pm
QUEEN ST MILL TEXTILE MUSEUM
Harle Syke, Briercliffe, Burnley BBIO 2HF
Tickets £ 12

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · 19d

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

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · 22d

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

At the margins of capitalism: useful histories at the Co-op Archive - University of Birmingham

Jade Burnett reports on the 'Sites of fracture' launch event held in Manchester on 1 July 2025.

tinyurl.com

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 29d

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...

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 7

A beer has been brewed specifically by Marble Brewery and the food and cake is amazing! A great team effort and a project which I learnt lots from.

There are links to MDMArchive as co-founder CP Lee worked here and Mole Express was based here too.

www.mdmarchive.co.uk/exhibition/m...

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 7

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

A green iced cake on a table with other palates of food around

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ooh, thanks. I’ll have a look in the periodicals when I get back and see if I can find the seal in the Owen correspondence.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

@dnhamilton.bsky.social in action

A man presents to an audience. A screen displaying a picture and text is behind him

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

Some info on the blog post below but I have seen some seals with it on www.co-operativeheritage.coop/blog/bread-a...

Bread and Bunkers

A tale of nuclear bunkers, bread wrappers and logos.

www.co-operativeheritage.coop

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

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

Special Collections Subject Guides and Articles

A series of subject guides and links to articles

www.co-operativeheritage.coop

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 6

A familiar looking beehive on the Oastler medal.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Sep 5

I wish I could have attended m, it looked fantastic.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Aug 29

I will do indeed.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Aug 29

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...

Chartism Day 2025: book now

Chartism Day 2025 will take place on Saturday, 6 September at Heritage Quay, University of Huddersfield. Book your ticket now on Eventbrite Click to download as an A4 poster (PDF). Please share wid…

sslh.org.uk

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

The National Equitable Labour Exchange

A blog post by volunteer Verity Chapman Gibbs

tinyurl.com

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Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social · Aug 28

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

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are you visiting the Shakespeare first folio exhibition? I was there last month for a conference and we got to see it. So interesting.

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International Anthony Burgess Foundation @anthonyburgess.bsky.social · Aug 15

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.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Aug 1

There are a couple I haven’t been to yet, but if you get chance to visit the instruments at RNCM do, to wonderful. Heather who volunteers @mdmarchive is the archivist and museum manager there.

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Jane Donaldson @janeydonald.bsky.social · Aug 1

Thanks to @mcrhistories.bsky.social for inviting me as one of the network members of the Hidden Group

www.thehidden8.com/about2

WHO WE ARE | thehidden8

www.thehidden8.com

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