“It was the best of pints; it was the the worst of pints.”
So begins Charles Dickens’s classic drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities.
You’ll be believing such canards by the time you’ve shared a tipple with us on the Manchester Literature Festival annual Literary Pub tour, a bibulous, bibliographic bounce as we evoke the spirits (sic) of Elizabeth Gaskell, Howard Spring, Louis Golding, Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas de Quincey and Anthony Burgess.
* This tour must be booked through Quaytickets.
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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