Next Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester walking tour: Manchester Literature Festival Official Tours, Thursday 16 October 2025. Meet: St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and tour guide, a … Continue reading →

Next tour: Saturday 18 October 2025 (International Anti-Slavery Day) Starts: 11am from Victoria Station wallmap. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.         Manchester has hit the news big style! Simon Hattenstone in the the Guardian … Continue reading →

Next tour: Wednesday 22 October 2025 Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann Street. Booking: Please book with eventbrite here. The John Rylands Library has been closed for nearly a year. Now it’s back – and with our tours! *** … Continue reading →

Next tour: Saturday 25 October 2025. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap for a 12 noon start. Booking: If you’d like to go to Strangeways, the law will help you. Alternatively, just follow the orders from the guv’nor below. Oh, alright: Please … Continue reading →

Next walking tour: Saturday, the 25th of October 2025. Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 3pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who didn’t invent the … Continue reading →

Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Meet: Please meet OUTSIDE the Mercure Hotel for a 12 noon start! Date: Saturday 1 November 2025. Any problems, phone me, Ed, on 07769 29 8068. *** Some secrets * Did you … Continue reading →