Elegant streets of neo-Classical houses with Gothick touches, fields and market gardens touching St Ann’s Square, a medieval town run as a feudal fiefdom by the Mosley family – and the whole country under kings who spoke no English.
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Georgian Manchester
- Start:
- 03/08/2016 2:00 pm
- End:
- 03/08/2016 4:00 pm
- Cost:
- £8
- Venue:
- Art Gallery
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- Britain’s Greatest Prime Ministers – and the Worst!
* Ed Glinert’s hilarious trawl through the dodgy denizens of No. 10.
* Thu 1 April, 5.30pm, on eventbrite.Prime Ministers don’t fight duels anymore, so we believe, but George Canning, foreign secretary, went into battle with Lord Castlereagh on Putney Heath in 1809. Neither died, and Canning later became the shortest-lived PM after only 118 days.
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At around quarter past five on Monday 11 May 1812 PM Spencer Perceval fell down in the lobby of the Palace of Westminster and cried out: “I am murdered!”. Yes, the only time a British prime minister has been assassinated.
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