Salford’s Working Class Movement Library has friends in high places – and tickets are about to go on sale for a one-off fundraiser featuring actors Christopher Eccleston (pictured), Sheila Hancock, Julie Hesmondhalgh and Maxine Peake as well as The Smith’s Mike Joyce. The live literature event includes prose, poetry and drama telling stories of radicalism and revolution drawn from the work of regional writers such as Ewan MacColl, Robert Roberts, Shelagh Delaney, Harold Brighouse. There will also be readings on subjects like the Peterloo Massacre, the Spanish Civil War, Engels’s view of the Salford slums and memories of Broad Street and Rat Week. Tickets go on sale at 4pm on Tuesday 1 November. Note that this event is taking place in the University of Salford’s Maxwell Hall, not the Working Class Movement Library. However the WCML is well worth a visit. The institution was founded in the 1950s and contains one of the most important collections of historical material on radical working class organisations in the country. It’s open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons and entry is free.
Sun 27 Nov, Maxwell Hall, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WU. Tel: 0161 736 3601, 2pm, £12, www.eventbrite.co.uk
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