research into Wolverhampton/Staffordshire connection to slavery and the slave trade
Further research is now underway and due to complete around April 2025 with an interim report due at our AGM 16 Jan 2025.
History
TUC Women Chainmakers’ Festival of Cradley Heath
The next TUC Women Chainmakers’ festival will be Saturday 28th June 2025. The Midlands TUC run this event annually in Cradley Heath.
Friction Dynamics strike (2001-2003) documentary
S4C’s new award-winning 44min documentary “Y Lein” about the Friction Dynamics strike (2001-2003) is available until August 2024 on BBC iplayer with English subtitles available.
Behold Ye Ramblers!
Thursday APRIL 11th – 7.30pm – Newhampton Arts Centre, Wolverhampton WV1 4AN Box Office: 01902 572 090 WEBSITE tickets £8/£9
a history of the GFTU
illustrated talk by Dr Edda Nicolson (21min)
Black History talk
Labour resistance to conditions of abject poverty found in rural Jamaica 100 years after Emancipation.
Cosmo Rowe and Two Wolverhampton Houses
article by Nick Matthews
Saltley Gate 50th Anniversary Rally
50th Anniversary of ‘The Battle of Saltley Gate’
The life and times of George Africanus
The life and times of George Africanus, the African child taken from his home and family and brought to Wolverhampton at a time when it was fashionable for affluent families […]
The Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In
This recorded meeting commemorates a remarkable working class victory which offers lessons for today’s labour movement.
Des Halestrap
Bro. Des Halestrap NATFHE delegate to WB&DTUC (1990s) died on 1st May 2020, aged 88.
The Wolverhampton Worker
This new archive provides a unique and interesting portrait of the lives and struggles of working class people in Wolverhampton in the lead up and into the First World War. monthly […]
Birmingham TUC 150 years celebration
John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor is now a Confirmed speaker @ Birmingham Trades Union Council150th Anniversary EventSaturday 12th November 2016 Less than 30 places are left; tickets are £5 waged and […]
revolutionary poster exhibition
@Wolverhampton Art gallery Ends – 10 April 2016 A World to Win: Posters of Protest and Revolution presents a century of posters agitating for political change.
Rouse, Ye Women!
– A new folk ballad about Mary Macarthur and the women chainmakers Thursday 18th April 7.30pm – CRADLEY HEATH LIBRARY sold out
live gig to celebrate our 150 years anniversary
It was standing room only at our 150 years celebration