Ed Glinert (with books by three of the world’s leading publishers to his name) discusses the literary merits of Manchester’s great men and women of letters: Elizabeth Gaskell, Howard Spring, Louis Golding, Harrison Ainsworth, Walter Greenwood, with a nod to nationally renowned authors such as Charles Dickens who have described the city.
* Ed Glinert’s hilarious trawl through the dodgy denizens of No. 10.
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.
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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