Salford's Working Class Movement Library awarded GBP313,000 grant

Salford's Working Class Movement Library has been awarded a GBP313,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. The money will be used to tell the story of the working man's fight for social justice. Over three years it will be spent on its The Past Meets the Present: a History of Working Lives project. The scheme aims to make the library's priceless collection of 30,000 books, pamphlets, periodicals and 2,000 items of memorabilia more accessible to the whole community. Its archives and books tell the story of working people's fight for social justice and political rights over the past 200 years - Manchester Evening News, UK