Praising Culture Doesn’t Pay the Bills
Liverpool’s celebrated local museums pay so poorly that its workers go home to cold homes and empty cupboards. It’s no wonder they have gone on strike to demand the better wages they deserve.
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Rachel Collett
Rachel Collett is a PhD student at the University of Liverpool researching the Merseyside Women’s Liberation Movement from 1969 to the 1990s.
Sheila Rowbotham’s Dream Deferred
In her new memoir, Sheila Rowbotham writes about the radical aspirations of feminism and socialism in the 1970s – and how many of the decade’s struggles remain to be won today.
Chris Killip: Photographer of the Working Class
Chris Killip, who passed away last month, captured the Northern communities at the forefront of resistance to Thatcherism – and gave their struggles a human face.