About Us
Partners
University of Central Lancashire
We have built a close partnership with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), collaborating on dynamic projects and utilizing our collections in the University’s teaching and research. Over 100 undergraduate and postgraduate students are taught each year using our resources for subjects including: History/Politics; Design; the Institute of Local and Family History; and the Museums and Archives and Publishing Realistic Work Environments (RWE) of ceth. UClan students enjoy special visits to the PHM arranged by lecturer Dr David Stewart who has worked closely with us on projects and research since he was the UCLan/PHM Post-Doctoral Research Fellow.
UCLan lecturers Stephen Meredith and David Stewart are currently supervising an prestigious AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship with the Co-operative College. The successful candidate, Angela Whitecross is examining the relationship between the Co-operative Party and Labour Party in the period 1931-1951.
Battle for the Ballot
Students on UCLan’s Publishing RWE worked with us to develop the “Battle for the Ballot” exhibition into a flagship publication; this is now for sale in our museum shop and is used both by learning staff to enhance citizenship teaching in schools and by Politics staff for citizenship undergraduate course materials.
Conferences and events
The UCLan-funded conference ‘Labour and Imperialism’ (2008) included a resources workshop led by PHM staff. The proceedings have now been published as The British Labour Movement and Imperialism (2010), edited by Billy Frank and David Stewart of UCLan and Craig Horner of PHM, with a foreword by the key-note speaker Tony Benn.
The book was launched on 29 September 2010 in the Archive Reading Room at the museum, and we were delighted to welcome Tony Lloyd, MP for Manchester Central and minister of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1997-9).
School of Education and Social Science
UCLan’s History Division and Institute of Local and Family History both based within the School of Education and Social Science have undertaken several projects with us including the 2008 conference ‘Labour and Imperialism’ and a resource workshop on twentieth-century records.
Northern School of Design
We have contributed sessions for UCLan’s Northern School of Design on the interpretation of social history collections. Design staff have given advice on the exhibition design in our new galleries. The BA(Hons) Interior Design course has collaborated with us on our new Community Gallery, and a number of students exhibited their projects for the gallery at the opening by David Lammy MP of the museum’s Resource Centre in June 2009, and this work forms the basis for our first public exhibition, now open.
School of Journalism, Media and Communication
The School of Journalism, Media and Communication worked closely with the museum in publicising Billy Bragg’s ‘Bill of Rights’ lecture (2007) and Tony Benn’s talk on imperialism (2008), both well attended and with opportunities for questions from the floor.