An in conversation with exploring WCML latest exhibition, featuring curators Dan Edmonds & Dr Shirin Hirsch.

Dan Edmonds is a researcher on the Inclusive Histories project run by Royal Holloway University of London. The project is developing learning resources on histories of marginalised peoples’ activism which can be used in the classroom in conjunction with AQA’s Power and the People GCSE History module. Dan has been working closely with the Working Class Movement Library and Peoples History Museum to research and create materials on the struggle for workers’ rights throughout British history. He is also an associate of the Global Labour Institute, where he works to share histories of the international labour movement with trade unionists.

Dr Shirin Hirsch is a historian of race, class and resistance in modern Britain, based at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has written on topics including the Moss Side riots, a Communist boxer called Len Johnson and struggles against Enoch Powell in Wolverhampton. She is currently researching photographs of the 1926 General Strike as well as writing a book on Britain’s Colour Bar.