Jane Donaldson

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

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 On the Eighth Day and the history of Worker Co-ops

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-...

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).

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

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

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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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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.

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.

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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...

A beer can on a table

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.

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

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

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.

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

@dnhamilton.bsky.social in action

Bread and Bunkers A tale of nuclear bunkers, bread wrappers and logos.

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

Special Collections Subject Guides and Articles A series of subject guides and links to articles

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

A familiar looking beehive on the Oastler medal.

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

I will do indeed.

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…

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!

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The National Equitable Labour Exchange A blog post by volunteer Verity Chapman Gibbs

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

Still just about time to book your ticket for Chartism Day
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Are you visiting the Shakespeare first folio exhibition? I was there last month for a conference and we got to see it. So interesting.

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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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.

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

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Three women, 2 sitting down and one standing behind a table which has a laptop and promotional material on it. There are two pop up banners either side to promote Manchester Histories and the Co-operative Heritage Trust

A picture taken at night of a lit up church exterior

the exterior of Bill Bryson library at Durham University with lots of white carrot flower blooming in the front

The exterior of Durham Cathedral taken from across the Green

A great time at this year’s #DCDC2025 conference at Durham this year. So many take homes and brilliant conversations to re-invigorate, re-connect, make new connections and learn from.
Also a mooch round a place I hadn’t visited before and a chance to see some brilliant buildings and exhibits.

The cover of A Shorter Ulysses by James Joyce, edited by Anthony Burgess

PRE-ORDER NOW: A Shorter Ulysses, edited by Anthony Burgess is coming in September. It's a companion piece to Burgess's A Shorter Finnegans Wake, and includes Blooms of Dublin, his musical based on Ulysses.

Pre-order at the Burgess Foundation's shop: uk.bookshop.org/a/15106/9781...

Manchester Scene Stories – Manchester Digital Music Archive Welcome to Scene Stories!Step into the heart of Manchester’s vibrant music and club culture. From the rebellious punk days to the rise of acid...

Manchester Digital Music Archive have been helping Paul Banks (@mcrscenestories on Instagram) and the videos of interviews about all aspects of the Manchester Music Scene can be found on the website.

Enjoy your Friday!

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A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966 Although Rochdale had built on a large scale in the interwar period, as we saw in last week’s post, and although it had suffered little direct damage during the war itself, peacetime brought renewe…

🚨 New blog post: 'A History of Council Housing in Rochdale: Part II, from 1945 to 1966' looks at the town's new 'neighbourhood unit' created in the 1950s and two innovative but troubled projects of the 1960s:
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We are recruiting!

Are you a qualified archivist who is looking for an 18-month, full-time position?

Would you like to work in a stunning location with a wide range of collections? Enjoy being part of a team and talking up archives to a wide audience?

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Sketch illustrating one-roomed dwelings

Sketch illustrating court and privies

Part I of my housing history of Rochdale (HT @wellcomecollection.bsky.social for its great collection of online resources) looks at housing conditions and housing reform before World War II. (Part II looking at post-war housing on Tuesday.)
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Neurodivergent experiences of archives – call for workshop participants Are you a (UK-based) neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archive, library, or collections professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archive, library, or collections professional who can offer insights into accessibility? As part of the EDI Caucus funded project ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’ , we, a group of neurodivergent humanities academics, will be running a series of research and knowledge exchange workshops at archives around the UK, and online, in summer 2025. These workshops will bring together archive users and professionals to share archive experiences, identify potential barriers for neurodivergent users, and creatively ‘re-imagine’ archival spaces through zine-making. We can fund limited travel expenses for participants to workshops, including support worker travel and overnight accommodation where necessary. Please apply for one workshop only. We are currently recruiting participants for the following workshops, to be hosted by: ● ● Glamorgan Archives, Cardiff, Tuesday 29 July, 10am-4.15pm. Liverpool Records Office, Liverpool, Thursday 14 August, 10am-4.15pm. Please apply by Monday 21st July, or as soon as possible if you need travel support. If you cannot make these events, but would like to hear more about the project, sign up to our mailing list for more information in due course. Please feel free to get in touch with further questions at divergentmindsarchive@gmail.com. All the very best, Ria, Lucie, and Ann-Marie The project is led by Dr Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University; Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Robert Gordon University/Imperial War Museums; and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University. Our partners are Glamorgan Archives, Gwent Archives, History UK, Imperial War Museums, Liverpool Record Office, Scottish Council on Archives,

#skyhistorians We are looking forward to our Divergent Minds in the Archive workshops in Cardiff (29 July) & Liverpool (14 Aug). There’s still time to sign up & we are looking for a broad group of archive users! We have travel bursaries & can if needed help with hotel accommodation. More details👇