2025 Banner Exhibition at People's History Museum
Watch the final #banner in People’s History Museum’s 2025 Banner #Exhibition go on display, ready for the new exhibition to open tomorrow, Saturday 18 January 🎺
LGSM donated this banner to the museum in the 1990s and for the first time, it has been installed at PHM, in a way which allows both the front and back to be seen 🏳️🌈
Visit PHM and see a quarter of our main galleries revamped and come face to face with the colourful handiwork of those who fought for our rights – from the 19th century to today ✊
Book your tickets to a very special PHM late with LGSM activists on Thurs 27 Feb: https://bit.ly/4fWZFbv
📍People’s History Museum, Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER
Banner: Lesbians & Gays Support The Miners banner made by Mark Ashton, around 1984.
#textileconservation #museums #Manchester #conservation #textiles #MinersStrike #minersstrike #visitmanchester #exhibition #lgsm #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtcommunity #newexhibition
Which historical radical are you? Match with Britain’s changemakers, including strike leader Jayaben Desai and anti-nuclear campaigner Betty Tebbs, in PHM’s Radicals quiz: https://bit.ly/3butC1l
Happy birthday to this stunning piece of feminist history! 🎂 The Manchester suffragette banner was first unfurled 115 years ago, in June 1908, thus immortalising Manchester as the starting point of the suffragette movement. From today, the banner is on display at PHM until 7 Jan 2024 💜
Watch PHM’s Conservators carefully install the banner ready for display.
Want to help us preserve more history like this? In celebration of the banner, we are holding a fundraising evening on Thursday 6 July with conversation, tours, creativity, a raffle and more. Book tickets: https://phm.org.uk/events_new/manchester-first-in-the-fight/ #FirstInTheFight
Manchester suffragette banner, 1908 | Britain's Most Historic Towns
Only one week to go until the Manchester #suffragette banner goes on display at PHM 🤩
Learn more about the banner’s history and how it came into PHM’s collection in this video...
Credit: Britain’s Most Historic Towns, IWC Media and Channel 4. #FirstInTheFight
Celebrate the banner with us at a fundraising evening of conversation and creativity on Thursday 6 July: https://phm.org.uk/events_new/manchester-first-in-the-fight/
#OTD in 1882, #PHMRadical and militant suffrage campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst was born.
The Manchester #suffragette banner, 1908, was created to mark the founding of the Women’s Social and Political #Union by Sylvia’s mother Emmeline Pankhurst.
Explore the banner’s journey to PHM in this video...
The Manchester suffragette banner will be on display at PHM from Wednesday 21 June 2023 for the first time in five years.
Be the first to hear about the special events surrounding the banner when you sign up to our e-newsletter via the PHM Radicals quiz: https://phm.org.uk/radicals-quiz/
Illegal trade unions in 19th century Britain
From 1800 to 1871, trade unions were illegal or severely restricted. Many unions in the 19th century used stealthy language such as ‘friendly society’ to avoid persecution, such as the creators of the Loyal White Lion Lodge banner (1821), which Virginia examines in this video.
New anti-union laws introduced by the Conservative Party are now in the House of Lords with an #AntiStrikeBill that threatens working people’s fundamental right to strike once again.
Find out more about this concerning legislation on the TUC website: https://www.tuc.org.uk/ProtectRightToStrike
Dockworkers, dirt and dissent!
In this video, Bob from PHM’s Visitor Experience Team tells us more about the Union and Victory banner, 1889, which was used during the Great London Dock Strike.
Earlier this week, we posted PHM visitor Sylvia’s brilliant recreation of this banner.
This June, the iconic Manchester suffragette banner (1908) will celebrate its 115th birthday by going on display at People's History Museum.
The banner is a reminder that the Women’s Social and Political Union was started by Emmeline Pankhurst in #Manchester in 1903, before moving its headquarters to London.
The Manchester suffragette banner is particularly vulnerable to light degradation and must be kept in protective conditions, making this rare opportunity to see the banner on display especially exciting.
See the banner at PHM from Wednesday 21 June 2023.
#InternationalWomensDay
Where do you fit amongst our #PHMRadicals? Take the PHM personality quiz to find your match: https://bit.ly/3butC1l
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It takes PHM’s Conservators around 20 minutes to put up each one of our biggest three banners. All three are from the late 19th century, and must be unrolled carefully to protect fragile elements such as the 150 year old oil paint.
In this timelapse, watch Jenny and Kloe put up our big three banners ready for our 2023 Banner Exhibition – opening tomorrow (21 Jan)! 🥳
Visit PHM to see a quarter of our main galleries revamped and come face to face with the colourful handiwork of those who fought for our rights – from the 19th century to today.
On Saturday 28 January, there will be two guided tours of the 2023 Banner Exhibition with expert museum staff. Book your place: https://phm.org.uk/events_new/2023-banner-exhibition-guided-tours/
Left banner: The Typographical Association Preston Branch banner, around 1870s
Centre banner: Ipswich Dockers Union banner, around 1890
Right banner: Dockers Union Export Branch banner, around 1890
Blackburn Youth Service Girls Group banner (1988)
Have you ever wondered what goes into preserving objects at a museum? The Conservation Team at PHM look after our incredible collection of over 450 banners.
In this video, Senior Conservator Kloe Rumsey discusses the challenges of preserving and displaying the Blackburn Women’s Youth Service Girls Group banner, created for International Women's Day in 1988. The banner is over 35 years old and already requires close attention.
Find out more at our next Banner Tour on Saturday 30 April, part of the BBC Arts Arts That Made Us Festival.
Book your tickets: https://bit.ly/3Kn3B6s
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners banner (1985) at People's History Museum
In this new video, PHM's Senior Conservation Officer Kloe Rumsey shows another side to the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners banner (1985).
Tickets are still available for our two 2022 Banner Exhibition Tours
Thursday 24 March at 11.00am: https://bit.ly/3hQcYP5/
Saturday 30 April at 11.00am: https://bit.ly/3I50w95