THFMagazine2018/19

The WSPU took a radical approach to attaining
Women’s rights turning to increasingly militant
tactics to raise awareness. These included burning
down churches and MPs’ homes, destroying
priceless paintings at Manchester Art Gallery,
they even smashed all the windows in Oxford
Street and bombed Oxted Station. As a result
many were sent to prison where the women
began to go on hunger strike as they wished to
be given political prisoners status.
The efforts of the Suffragettes was finally recognised
in 1928 in the Representation of the
People Act, which finally entitled women to
equal voting rights with men.
Things to do
— Volunteer with the LGBT Foundation
— Help a young person living in the North West
stay safe and reach their potential through
Proud Trust
— LGBT- HERITAGE TRAIL
— Suffragette city: take a tour of 10 Manchester
places that made Emmeline Pankhurst a political
pioneer
— Visit and volunteer at the Pankhurst Centre
— Visit the Peoples History Museum as they
mark the centenary of the Representation of
the People Act (1918) with ‘Represent! Voices
100 years On’
Manchester and Communism
In the middle years of the 19th century, Friedrich
Engels and Karl Marx, arrived from Germany to
conduct much of their research into poverty and
social conditions, fuelling their original take on
how society could be reorganised along class
lines.
Engels lived in Manchester for several decades,
the city where his radical philosophies were
truly born and Manchester in the Victorian era
was a catalyst for the development of Marxism.
Their work resulted in some of the most influential
political books ever written, including The
Condition of the Working Class in England. Engel’s
and Marx’s experiences in Manchester had
a profound effect on their political philosophy,
viewing capitalism as an unnecessary evil and
soon wrote The Communist Manifesto which
was able to show for the first time the essential
features and laws of capitalism as a class-based
social system of production and exchange.
— Visit the Friedrich Engels statue at Tony Wilson
Place which was transported in 2017 from
the Poltava region of eastern Ukraine
— Join Jonathan Scofield for The Friedrich Engels
& Karl Marx Birthday Extravaganza Tour
— Visit the desk and alcove where Karl Marx
and Friedrich Engels worked at Chetham’s Library
in 1845
Schedule for
Radical Manchester
LT2
03/10/2018
3 pm — 4pm
LT2
03/10/2018
4 pm — 5pm
LT1
14/11/2018
4 pm — 5pm
LT1
14/11/2018
3pm — 4pm
LT1
06/02/2019
1 pm — 2pm
LT1
06/02/2019
3 pm — 4pm
LT1
06/02/2019
4 pm — 5pm
MET TALK FT CAROLINE DOWSETT
Caroline Dowsett is a illustrator and maker from Manchester, working from her desk at The Engine House,
Islington Mill, which she shares with 10 other creatives. Caroline works in a range of mediums, enjoying the
process of seeing how her work can transfer through different materials, from working with ceramic and
fabric, to painting murals and working on paper. Her practice is mainly focused on pattern and shape work,
playing with different colour palettes and words to influence her pieces.
MET TALK & PERFORMANCE BY KATE O’DONNELL — TRANSCREATIVE
Kate O’Donnell is an award winning transgender performer, activist and theatre maker. In 2016 she founded
Trans Creative a trans arts company which aims is to create platforms for trans people to tell their own stories.
Her work includes the award – winning Big Girl’s Blouse and several well received cabaret performances. She
is currently touring her critically acclaimed one woman autobiographical show ‘You’ve Changed’.
In 2017 she curated Manchester first trans arts festival in which 50 trans voices were heard and was part of the
MIF opening event ‘What is The City but its people?’. Other credits include: Feste in Twelfth Night (The Royal
Exchange) Boy Meets Girl (BBC), Mum a short film co – created with Anne Marie O’Connor (winner of LGBT
Short film London independent film festival) Sounds Like She (BBC Radio 3).
MET TALK FT JEN YOCKNEY MBE
Jen Yockney is one of the most prominent bisexual community activists in the UK, having worked on giving
bisexual communities support and voice for the past twenty-plus years.
That time has involved many levels of community work: frontline support at the UK’s oldest bisexual support
group; publications and policy – making such as initiating meetings between the bi volunteer / activist community
and GEO; and as a mentor actively reaching out to new volunteers to help bi groups and projects around
the country blossom. In 2016 Jen received the MBE for ‘Services To The Bisexual Community’, the first such
and the first time the title Mx appeared in the Honours List.
MET TALK FT RUSSELL T. DAVIES
Russell T. Davies was born in Swansea in 1963. A graduate of Oxford University, he completed the BBC Director’s
course before becoming a TV producer. He started writing whilst working in the Manchester department
of Children’s BBC and has gone on to create several award-winning series including the ground-breaking
Queer as Folk, Bob and Rose for which he won the British Comedy Award for Writer of the Year and Best
Comedy Drama, The Second Coming for which he won the RTS Award for Best Network Drama and Broadcast
Award’s Best Single Drama. He went on to revive the classic British science fiction series Doctor Who which
received numerous awards and for which Russell won the BAFTA for Best Drama Series, and Torchwood for
which he won the BAFTA Cymru for Best Drama Series. He has since created the trilogy Cucumber, Banana
and Tofu for which he won the BAFTA for Best Drama Writer and BPG Innovation Award in 2016 and most
recently adapted A Very English Scandal on BBC 1.
MELANIE TEBBUTT — MEET THE PROF
Melanie was the ​first in her family to receive a university education and has has never lost the desire to teach,
research and spread the word about learning to as many people as possible. Her research focuses on the role
of working-class women in the family economy, particularly their use of credit and the pawnbroker. It subsequently
explored gossip networks in working class neighbourhoods and institutions. More recently, she has
been researching and teaching the history of youth and exploring its implications for young people growing
up in the present day.
GIDEON KOPPEL — MEET THE PROF
Gideon Koppel is an artist and filmmaker, whose work has been screened internationally and exhibited in galleries
from Tate Modern, to MoMA New York. His first work for broadcast television was ‘Jones’ – a maverick
BBC drama, styled as a German expressionist film. Koppel won the 2010 Guardian First Feature Film Award
for his critically acclaimed ‘sleep furiously’ which has a soundtrack by Aphex Twin. The novelist John Banville
described ‘sleep furiously’ as ‘simply, a masterpiece’. He is Professor of Film at Manchester School of Art and
an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton, University of Oxford.
MET TALK FT GULWALI PASSARLY
Gulwali Passarlay is an Afghan political refugee currently residing in the UK. He left Afghanistan in 2006 and
graduated with a degree in Politics from the University of Manchester. Now undertaking his MPA at Coventry
University, CTPSR in Global Diversity Governance. He has recently founded ‘My Bright Kite’ CIC to empower
refugee youth and create awareness about the challenges asylum seekers and refugees face in their host society.
A Global Youth Ambassador for global children’s charity Theirworld, Gulwali has taken a long history
of campaigning and leadership roles, including being the President of the United Afghan Peace Movement,
Chairperson of the Afghan Youth Movement, Patron of the Separated Child Foundation, Commissioner of The
Children’s Society, and Ambassador of various organisations. He has told his story of life as a refugee in his
autobiography: “The Lightless Sky: A Twelve-Year-Old Refugee’s Harrowing Escape from Afghanistan”.
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