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Salford Women’s Trades Council, 1895 – 1919.
Bernadette Hyland will be speaking on Wednesday 17th January, 2pm, in the Tameside Archives in Ashton Library on Old Street. She will be speak about her work on the Minutes of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Council, 1895 – 1919. For 24 years this organised women in some of the low-paid jobs in Manchester. The organisers included Eva Gore-Booth and Mary Quaile. The handwritten Minutes were unearthed during research into the life of Mary Quaile and were transcribed in their entirety by Bernadette on behalf of the Mary Quaile Club.
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