Friday, March 23, 2012

150 years in 2013

Co-operation can always celebrate an anniversary, and 2013 will be the 150th Anniversary of The Co-Operative, or as it used to be known the Co-Operative Wholesale Society dating from the 10th October 1863 in Manchester.

Work is already under way by some professional historians at Universities in Liverpool to produce a book. Another book? Well as they point out in this initial article co-operation has been ignored for too long in the media, and in the school curriculum....

Link - you can also download a PDF from here.

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