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People's History Museum blog

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.

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Image of Protest Lab in Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest exhibition

Protest Lab and collecting the contemporary

19 December 2019


Protest Lab is part of the museum’s 2019 programme exploring the past, present and future of protest, marking 200 years since the Peterloo Massacre.  Find out how Programme Officer Michael Powell and his team created the space and get an insight into which contemporary objects have been collected for display.



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Image of Lillia on her 10th birthday © @lilliasworld

Climate Justice - There is no planet B

25 October 2019


10 year old youth activist Lillia guest blogs for People’s History Museum (PHM) about what’s at stake and how she is standing up for climate justice ahead of the museum’s ‘There is no planet B creative disobedience day



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Image of Never Going Underground banner, 1988, © People's History Museum

On the shoulders of giants: Remembering Alan Turing

22 August 2019


As we approach the weekend of Manchester Pride, Bernard Donoghue, Trustee at People’s History Museum (PHM) and CEO of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) reflects on why he chose to be the PHM Radical Sponsor of Alan Turing.



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Image of Happy and Proud project banners and bags, designed and made by project participants on display at Burnley Mechanics and the National Trust’s Gawthorpe Hall ©Participation Works NW

Marion Wallace Dunlop: History inspires success in Burnley

5 July 2019


#OnThisDay in 1909 suffragette Marion Wallace Dunlop went on hunger strike whilst imprisoned for militancy.  She became one of the first and most well known to do so and her tactics were to inspire the likes of Ghandi.

We asked Lynne Blackburn, Director & Project Manager at Participation Works NW to share a recent project which saw a group of girls from Burnley inspired for their futures by struggles that women in the past faced.



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Image of Final clay of Our Emmeline by Hazel Reeves © Hazel Reeves

Our Emmeline – my statue by Hazel Reeves

10 December 2018


On Friday 14 December 2018 a statue of Emmeline Pankhurst will be unveiled in her home city of Manchester.  Designed by sculptor Hazel Reeves, this will be the highlight of a campaign to celebrate the significant contribution of women to the city and will take place on the day that exactly 100 years ago the first women voted in a UK general election for the first time.

We asked Hazel to tell us about the commission in her own words.



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