Scores of Manchester people were killed in 1819 at the Peterloo Massacre protesting for the right to vote. Nearly a hundred years later there was nearly a riot when the Suffragettes disrupted a political meeting at the Free Trade Hall, built on the same site as Peterloo. This is the story of the turmoil that shaped the story of how the people – especially the women – won the right to vote.
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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