Press releases from March 2023
Make Your Mark workshops
24 March 2023
People’s History Museum is inviting visitors to get hands on during their visit to the national museum of democracy by taking part in a Make Your Mark workshop. Get ready to meet The Manchester Argonaut, roll up your sleeves and have some fun with clay on Wednesday 5 April and Wednesday 12 April.
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Birthday outing for the Manchester suffragette banner
2 March 2023
People’s History Museum is preparing to put on public display one of its most treasured collection items, the Manchester suffragette banner of 1908. It represents the fight for Votes for Women and puts Manchester’s, and specifically Emmeline Pankhurst’s, role in this quest at its very heart. In June 1908 the banner was first unfurled in Manchester’s Stevenson Square alongside the suffragette leader and 115 years later, on 21 June 2023 it will go on display again in its home city.
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