Christabel: suffragette icon, arrested at the Free Trade Hall, locked in Strangeways.
Sylvia: suffragette icon who argued with Lenin and befriended Haile Selassie. MI5 called her “the tiresome Miss Sylvia Pankhurst”.
Emmeline: suffragette icon, Independent Labour Party campaigner, Tory Party candidate.
Walk in the footsteps of the Pankhursts, the family that won women the vote, on the 100th anniversary of the attack on Manchester Art Gallery.
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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