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Comment on History lesson. by Michael Herbert

Michael Herbert — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 14:36:46 +0000

a couple of quick comments.. firstly it leaves out the working class women’s campaign for the vote, organised through the Manchester Women’s Trades and Labour Council (the banner is at the Working Class Movement Library. Thirty years on from the publication of Jill Liddington and Jill Norris’s ground-breaking book One Hand Tied Behind Us, there is simply no excuse for any body who claims to be a historian of Manchester not including this. My other point is that what has happened since the 1980s that the city has been handed over to the machinations of private capital, fostering a conjuring trick whereby the city centre appears to be flourishing but the other parts of the city are stuck with high levels of unemployment or low wages, high levels of illness etc. Private capital has made he city centre is sterile culturally, (which is why the interesting things are happening over the river in Salford. i will end with a quote from Engels which seems apposite. “I once went into Manchester with a bourgeois, and spoke to him of … the frightful condition of the working people’s quarters, and asserted that I had never seen so ill-built a city. The man listened quietly to the end, and said at the corner where we parted: ‘And yet there is a great deal of money made here; good morning, sir.’”

Comment on Boutique Weekender: February 2012 by Allo Darlin’ | Gigs in Manchester | Hey! Manchester - alternative concert promotions in the rainy city

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:21:47 +0000

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Comment on The Top 25 UK Arts & Culture Blogs. by face paint

face paint — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:39:49 +0000

Joining in on the above comment, Vintage Festival website is worth a visit.

Comment on In development: Castlefield Gallery. by Not dead, just resting

Not dead, just resting — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:48:21 +0000

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Comment on Interview with Leo Fitzmaurice (transcript) by Winner of 2011 Northern Art Prize to be announced | leedsound

Winner of 2011 Northern Art Prize to be announced | leedsound — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:45:09 +0000

[...] Nominee, Leo Fitzmaurice re-presents everyday objects inviting viewers to see common objects unconventionally. Aspects of Leo Fitzmaurice’s work highlight awkward visual concepts from normal urban environments, he said: “The work I’m going to put in is going to take two forms. One is going to be a data projection of mobile phone images.” He continues: ” The other part is a kind of more historical take on landscape which is going to be a re-hang of Leeds Art Gallery’s landscape paintings. I’m going to follow the line of the landscape and hang the paintings so they’re touching each other so as you walk along it you’ll read one continuous view”. Kate Farrell, Curator at The Lowry in Salford Keys nominated Leo Fitzmaurice, she said: “I love his use of everyday objects; he quite mischievously changes what the viewer is used to seeing”. James Hugonin at work painting one of 200,000 marks [...]

Comment on History lesson. by susie

susie — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:18:39 +0000

Thanks Lynette, that’s changed now.

Comment on History lesson. by Lynette Cawthra

Lynette Cawthra — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:25:27 +0000

Christabel Pankhurst not her mum Emmeline…

Comment on Cartoons from Cotton Town. by Manchester 2007

Manchester 2007 — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 11:37:30 +0000

I have heard good things about People’s History Museum and I think it’s time I venture into the centre to see this exhibition. It looks wonderful and as my great-grandfather was a mill worker it will be a fascinating insight into my own family’s history.

Comment on Leo Fitzmaurice at The Lowry by Merseyside"s Leo Fitzmaurice wins 2011 Northern Art Prize | News 1st

Merseyside"s Leo Fitzmaurice wins 2011 Northern Art Prize | News 1st — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:40:25 +0000

[...] curator at the Lowry, where Fitzmaurice made the 2010 Panoramia installation exhibition for the Lowry’s Promenade Gallery. In his work at the Leeds Art Gallery, Horizon (Leeds), he made a selection of a dozen or so 19th and [...]

Comment on Top five live literature. by Crawling back to the world « Nici West

Crawling back to the world « Nici West — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:05:13 +0000

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