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Singer-songwriter Quiet Loner tells the story of how everybody in the UK came to have a vote. Using original songs alongside content from the collection of the People’s History Museum, this live performance crosses the centuries to show how the right to vote was won.

Beginning in the Industrial Revolution the story will take in events like the Peterloo Massacre and introduce the people – radicals, chartists, reformers and suffragists – who fought for the ideal of ‘Universal Suffrage’, which was finally achieved in 1928.

This show was written as part of a Songwriter in Residence project which aims to interpret the museum’s collection through songs and in doing so increase public engagement with the collection. The project has been supported by a grant from Arts Council England.

The Battle for the Ballot forms part of the People’s History Museum’s ‘Voting for Change’ project and was premièred in June 2016 as part of Manchester Histories Festival.