Manchester is one of the world’s most political cities!
This is where in 1819 the Peterloo Massacre saw the worst violence of any British political meeting.
This is where Marx & Engels plotted communism.
This is the city that led the fight against slavery.
This is where the Pankhursts devised their suffragette campaign.
So book New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert or John Alker for an expert tour or talk on the Pankhursts, Peterloo, Slavery, Marx & Engels in Manchester or anything that involves socialism, capitalism, communism, even fascism. Ideal for school syllabuses, trade union groups….anyone who wants to know how the world works and used to work.
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
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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