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"My doctor tells me to drink beer. May I ask you a few questions?"

"Is there anything better than to have the heat of argument cooled with deep draughts of beer?"

"Work Hard. Play Hard. Tankard"

Why beer was best in the 1930s

(https://t.co/pXW55PJCdc)

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1942: 45 technicians from Jamaica & Bahamas arrived in Bolton to work in wartime factories (& were welcomed with a civic reception)

Read a report about their work & conditions (by a West Indian visitor from the ILO) at https://t.co/4URUQGqcfr

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MEN or MACHINES

Dystopian future evoked in this 1936 TUC leaflet - combining sci-fi Machine Age imagery with nods to the Luddites

[https://t.co/kRViGhS7H2]

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A late Victorian Easter Monday - artist's impression of bank holiday outing strangely lacking in rain

MRC will be closed Good Friday and Easter Monday but will return with the joys of Spring (or at least some archives) on Tuesday - Happy Easter!

(from https://t.co/wdOaEsDtji)

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"The misery of unemployment cannot be charmed away by a Christmas hamper or even a Royal smile"

"Why they are marching" - The Hunger Marcher, February 1929

(https://t.co/MDrGaUcOOa)

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"Fanatics...pestilent killjoys...alien mercenaries"

1920: Prohibition started in USA. Concerned that it might spread to UK, the British brewing industry vigorously attacked the policy (with a side-order of anti-Americanism)

(More @ https://t.co/jxLiKYCrxn)

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As the MRC prepares to disappear into a festive haze for the next week or so, may we wish you all a Happy Christmas - we will return, probably several stones heavier, on 3 January

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Newly digitised! Explore newspaper/journal Firefighter, 1932-2001, online at https://t.co/qFFobWbhKz

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The first Borstal boys in 1902: training as carpenters, smiths & ag labs
(more photos @ https://t.co/357UU3EDJ4)

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