Political Manchester
Seditious Salford
Next tour: no dates yet. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. Booking: 25 September 1838: the Manchester Political Union sponsored a huge political rally at Kersal Moor, Salford. The bosses closed their factories for the day. A crowd of a quarter of a million flocked to the moor. They were accompanied by 20 bands and were carrying …
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Reds, Radicals and Revolutionaries
Next tour: May Day pub walk: Monday 1 May 2023. Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to register with Eventbrite. *** What ever happened to Leon Trotsky? Well he never came to Manchester, but Marx and Engels did, and “Orator” Hunt, Robert Owen, the Pankhursts too. So, fellow carbonari, compadres, communards …
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The Peterloo Massacre
This Peterloo Tour: Saturday 27 April 2024, 11am. Meet: outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** These unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, Penguin author and compiler of the forthcoming Manchester Encyclopaedia, who has conducted enormous amounts of recent research into the entire Peterloo …
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Manchester’s Political Prisoners
Next tours: No public dates yet. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Bring: A copy of Clause IV, if you can prise it from Tony Blair’s hands. More apt than Mao’s Little Red Book. How apt that the People’s History Museum in Manchester is located on the left bank (sic) of the river Irwell. But why …
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Engels & Marx in Manchester: Walkers of the World Unite!
Karl Marx’s Manchester (birthday weekend): Saturday 4 May 2024 Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, inventor of that perennially popular political system – communism – and Friedrich Engels, the German cotton merchant …
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Disraeli, Gladstone and Cobden – Victorian Titans
Next tour: No more public dates yet. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens. Bring: An open mind and an endless font of curiosity. End: Cobden’s House. Calling all history and politics teachers. Book privately: this walk is ideal for your “A” Level students! For more details, contact New Manchester Walks. *** Benjamin Disraeli: 19th century prime minister and …
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Engels & Marx in Manchester
Next FREE walk: Saturday 4 May 2024. Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Follow in the footsteps of the men who created a political philosophy that dominated half the world during the 20th century. Hugely entertaining, informative and intriguing, the …
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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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