Richard Cobden, Friedrich Engels, Wiliam Gladstone, Sylvia Pankhurst, Paul Robeson and assorted Trots, liberals and free-thinkers.
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Manchester’s Political Heroes
- Start:
- 25/01/2014 11:00 am
- End:
- 25/01/2014 12:45 pm
- Cost:
- £6
- Venue:
- People's History Museum
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Address:
Google Map - Bridge Street, Manchester, United Kingdom, M3 3ER
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- Britain’s Greatest Prime Ministers – and the Worst! The perfect talk for your group with Ed Glinert
* 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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