PHM is the national museum of democracy, telling the story of its development in Britain: past, present, and future.
On this blog we share posts from the PHM team and other experts, with behind the scenes stories, coverage of PHM's exhibitions and events, and highlights from the museum's unique collection.
Marking 100 years since the 1926 General Strike, our headline exhibition for 2026 On The Line: 100 years of strikes & solidarity journeys through a century of struggles and stories of strength.
In this blog we caught up with the exhibition’s lead curator, PHM Exhibitions Officer Mark Wilson as he explores the vibrant visual culture that has grown around strike action, ahead of guided tour on the subject. Discover the artists, poster collectives, and radical printshops involved, and the creative propaganda they produced.
2026 marks 50 years since the Grunwick Strike for union recognition (1976-1978). In this blog we revisit a Q & A on Jayaben Desai and the Grunwick Strike with Historian Dr Shirin Hirsch.
On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester, with demands for the right to vote, freedom from oppression, and justice.
Find out more about this major event in Manchester’s history, and a defining moment for Britain’s democracy.
In 1926, on the eve of the General Strike, Shapurji Saklatvala MP called on soldiers not to shoot their fellow workers. He was arrested on charges of sedition, his trial was rushed through, and he was imprisoned until the strike was officially over.
In the final of a series of three blogs exploring the 1926 General Strike, Dr Dan Edmonds, PHM and Royal Holloway University of London researcher, tells us more about Saklatvala, 100 years after his release from prison.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) – a conflict that inspired an extraordinary international response by ordinary people. We spoke to journalist Gideon Long, whose grandfather Sam Wild fought in the war with the International Brigades.
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