A free, illustrated talk at the Working Class Movement Library in Salford will explore the co-operative movement’s use of film, from film of the Blackpool Emporium and a 1938 Stanley Holloway monologue to a short animation about the Rochdale Pioneers produced last year.
The talk will be given by Gillian Lonergan, Head of Heritage Resources at [...]
Hundreds of Rochdale primary students helped push a wheelbarrow the distance from Manchester to Rochdale during a Pioneers-themed day at Rochdale Town Hall.
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum, which will be reopening this summer, has a new website featuring news and visiting details, co-operative history, resources and more.
More than 300 students from Rochdale primary schools will find out about the Rochdale Pioneers on 9 May.
Primary school students from across Rochdale became bee-fects at a bee-themed outreach afternoon across the road from the Pioneers Museum on Toad Lane.
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum is about to reopen following a major development project and a Museum Manager and two Museum Guides are being recruited.
Almost 3,000 items of correspondence to and from social reformer and early co-operator Robert Owen have now been catalogued and are now listed on the Archives Hub.
Students from schools across Rochdale will find out how to behave like a bee by putting co-operation into practice at a workshop being run by the Co-operative College’s outreach officers. The workshop will also share bee-related facts and explain the links between bees and the co-operative movement, which uses the beehive as a symbol.
The free [...]
Rochdale, the former Lancashire mill town that is widely regarded as the birthplace of modern-day co-operation, is highlighting its co-operative heritage as part of a bid to become one of retail guru Mary Portas’s Pilot Towns.
Rochdale is competing against several hundred other towns and, if successful, will be one of twelve towns awarded a share [...]
The Rochdale Pioneers Museum in Toad Lane, which is currently being refurbished, has received its first visitors. The Museum will reopen fully later this spring.
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