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				1	2	3 Political Manchester PRIVATE TOUR Political Manchester PRIVATE TOUR Exploring Ancoats (Part 1, Little Italy) Exploring Ancoats (Part 1, Little Italy) 03/03/2019 11:30 am – 03/03/2019 1:00 pm Ancoats Day, Sunday 3 March 2019 Part 1, Little Italy, 11.30am. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Part 2, New Islington, 2pm. Meet: New Islington tram stop. Booking: Please… Exploring Ancoats (Part 2, New Islington) Exploring Ancoats (Part 2, New Islington) 03/03/2019 2:00 pm – 03/03/2019 3:40 pm Ancoats Day, Sunday 3 March 2019 Part 1, Little Italy, 11.30am. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Part 2, New Islington, 2pm. Meet: New Islington tram stop. Booking: Please…
4	5	6	7	8 Exploring Ancoats (Part 2, New Islington) Exploring Ancoats (Part 2, New Islington) Exploring Ancoats (Part 2, New Islington) International Women’s Day International Women’s Day No description has been entered for this event. Emmeline Pankhurst’s Manchester Emmeline Pankhurst’s Manchester 08/03/2019 2:30 pm – 08/03/2019 4:10 pm * Fri 8 March 2019, Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square, 2.30pm. International Women’s Day Please book here with eventbrite. Time magazine named the Moss Side-born Suffragette leader as one of the 100… The Formidable Women of Manchester The Formidable Women of Manchester 08/03/2019 5:30 pm – 08/03/2019 7:10 pm International Women’s Day tour: Friday 8 March 2019 Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. * Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England”…	9 The Formidable Women of Manchester The Formidable Women of Manchester In Search of the Peterloo Memorial In Search of the Peterloo Memorial 09/03/2019 11:00 am – 09/03/2019 1:00 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Tour led by Ed Glinert, the only Manchester guide who has worked with both legendary campaigning journalist Paul Foot (author of Red Shelley) and Mike Leigh (director… The Women of Peterloo The Women of Peterloo 09/03/2019 2:30 pm – 09/03/2019 4:00 pm Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. In association with International Women’s Week, we recall the often-forgotten force behind the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, in particular Mary Fildes, leader of the…	10
11 The Women of Peterloo Hidden Gems of Manchester Hidden Gems of Manchester 11/03/2019 10:30 am – 11/03/2019 12:45 pm Tour March 2019: Mon 11 March 2019. Meet: Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 10.30am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. This is a remarkable tour of city sights and sites you always wanted to see…	12	13 Hidden Gems of Manchester Southern Cemetery tour Southern Cemetery tour 13/03/2019 11:30 am – 13/03/2019 1:15 pm This tour, March 2019: Wed 13 March, 11.30am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials), Barlow Moor Road (Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop, 8 minutes walk away). Don’t…	14 Southern Cemetery tour Southern Cemetery tour John Rylands Library And… John Rylands Library And… 14/03/2019 11:00 am – 14/03/2019 12:45 pm Meet: St Ann’s church. March 2019: Thu 14 March 2019, 11am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. The John Rylands Library is one of the world’s greatest libraries – Manchester’s No. 1 attraction on TripAdvisor… Manchester Central Library Manchester Central Library 14/03/2019 2:00 pm – 14/03/2019 4:00 pm This tour: Thu 14 March 2019, 2pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Meet: outside the Library. Manchester’s magnificent municipal library re-opened in March 2014 after a £40 million pound refit and has proved…	15 Manchester Central Library Marx & Engels Pub Walk: Drinkers of the World Unite! Marx & Engels Pub Walk: Drinkers of the World Unite! 15/03/2019 5:30 pm – 15/03/2019 8:00 pm * Friday 15 March 2019. Marx & Engels pub walk: “Drinkers of the world Unite”. Meet: St Ann’s Church, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Whatever happened to Leon Trotsky, as the old song asked?…	16 Marx & Engels Pub Walk: Drinkers of the World Unite! Marx & Engels Pub Walk: Drinkers of the World Unite! Irish Manchester Irish Manchester 16/03/2019 11:00 am – 16/03/2019 12:45 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Brendan Behan: genius writer or terrorist? Larkin, Allen and O’Brien: murderers or martyrs? No wonder Karl Marx urged Britain to solve the Irish question before choosing socialism. But… Roman Manchester Roman Manchester 16/03/2019 2:30 pm – 16/03/2019 4:10 pm Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. That word: “Manchester”. Where does it come from? Forget what Jeanette Winterson said on Radio 4. It’s nothing to do with the Roman “Mamucium” (place of the…	17 Roman Manchester Roman Manchester Manchester Music: the Hacienda Years Manchester Music: the Hacienda Years 17/03/2019 12:00 pm – 17/03/2019 1:40 pm The Hacienda Years: Sunday 17 March 2019. Meet: at the HOME arts centre, 2 Tony Wilson Place, 12 noon. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Forget Memphis and the Mersey, Manchester is Music… Exploring the Old Manchester Docks & Salford Quays Exploring the Old Manchester Docks & Salford Quays 17/03/2019 3:00 pm – 17/03/2019 4:45 pm March tour: Sunday 17 March 2019. Meet: Salford Quays Metrolink stop, 3pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Glass, steel and burnished metal tower over Salford Quays and huge docks which once harboured…
18	19	20 Exploring the Old Manchester Docks & Salford Quays Exploring the Old Manchester Docks & Salford Quays Manchester’s Political History Manchester’s Political History 20/03/2019 11:00 am – 20/03/2019 1:00 pm Please book here with eventbrite. No political revolution has ever been successful in Manchester. No charismatic political leader has emerged to seize power, confidently expecting to tell the masses, like Napoleon… Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester 20/03/2019 1:30 pm – 20/03/2019 4:00 pm Next tour: Wed 20 March 2019. Meet: St Ann’s Church, 1.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. A word from the guide This is the only Elizabeth Gaskell walking tour in Manchester which peruses the…	21	22 Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester L. S. Lowry L. S. Lowry 22/03/2019 2:00 pm – 22/03/2019 4:00 pm This tour: Fri 22 March 2019, 2pm from Victoria Station wallmap. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 2pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s best-loved 20th century… The Ancoats Historical Pub Tour The Ancoats Historical Pub Tour 22/03/2019 6:00 pm – 22/03/2019 8:30 pm This tour: Fri 22 March 2019, 6pm. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. We’ll raise a glass or two to the world’s first industrial suburb. Industry began in…	23 The Ancoats Historical Pub Tour The Ancoats Historical Pub Tour Alan Turing’s Manchester Alan Turing’s Manchester 23/03/2019 11:30 am – 23/03/2019 1:00 pm Tour, March 2019: Sunday 23 March 2019 Meet: Manchester Museum Reception, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 11.30am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. He broke the Nazis’ Enigma code, almost invented the computer, and was persecuted to… The Secret History of the Northern Quarter The Secret History of the Northern Quarter 23/03/2019 2:30 pm – 23/03/2019 4:15 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, modish Manchester, funky but chic Manchester. It’s the Northern Quarter. A land of crumbling cotton factories, sky-scraping fire-escapes, Bohemian bars, downhome hidden spaces,…	24 The Secret History of the Northern Quarter The Evil Corners of Strangeways The Evil Corners of Strangeways 24/03/2019 11:30 am – 24/03/2019 1:15 pm Next tour: Sunday 24 March 2019. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 11.30am. Booking: If you’d like to go to Strangeways, the law will help you get there. Alternatively, just turn up at…
25	26	27 The Evil Corners of Strangeways Hell Is A City (Savile, Brady, Shipman, Hindley, the hangman…) Hell Is A City (Savile, Brady, Shipman, Hindley, the hangman…) 27/03/2019 6:00 pm – 27/03/2019 8:00 pm Next tour: Wed 27 March, 6pm. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Manchester; it can be a nasty place. Terrorism, riot, revolt, hangings and murder. Even the most…	28 Hell Is A City (Savile, Brady, Shipman, Hindley, the hangman…) The Secret History of Manchester The Secret History of Manchester 28/03/2019 6:00 pm – 28/03/2019 7:40 pm • This tour: Thu 28 March 2019, 6pm. • Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert who has spent 40…	29 The Secret History of Manchester The Secret History of Manchester Manchester’s Beautiful Interiors (with RIBA judge Ed Glinert) Manchester’s Beautiful Interiors (with RIBA judge Ed Glinert) 29/03/2019 2:00 pm – 29/03/2019 3:45 pm Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Marvel at the rococo rooms, baroque basilicas, de-luxe dynamics and florid formerets, tasteful taxonomy. Basically, what we’re saying is behold the bloody beautiful insides at some… The Historic Pubs of Old Manchester The Historic Pubs of Old Manchester 29/03/2019 6:00 pm – 29/03/2019 8:30 pm Booking: Please book here on eventbrite. It stood on Shudehill for hundreds of years in all its timber-framed glory. Tipplers made for its sawdusty floors and stout beams from across the…	30 The Historic Pubs of Old Manchester The Historic Pubs of Old Manchester The Pankhursts/Suffragette City The Pankhursts/Suffragette City 30/03/2019 11:00 am – 30/03/2019 12:45 pm * Sat 30 March 2019, 11am. Please book here with eventbrite. • Christabel: suffragette icon, arrested at the Free Trade Hall, locked in Strangeways. • Sylvia: suffragette icon, joshed with Lenin, befriended… Peterloo Massacre 200 Official Tours Peterloo Massacre 200 Official Tours 30/03/2019 2:00 pm – 30/03/2019 3:45 pm Date: Sat 30 March 2019. Meet: Central Library, 2pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Your Peterloo guide, Ed Glinert, has worked with Peterloo film director Mike Leigh and the late great campaigning…	31 Peterloo Massacre 200 Official Tours Peterloo Massacre 200 Official Tours SS GB Manchester – Hitler’s Plans for the City SS GB Manchester – Hitler’s Plans for the City 31/03/2019 11:00 am – 31/03/2019 1:00 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Jackboot-clad generals holding court at the Midland Hotel; the Town Hall festooned with Swastikas; Jews, gays, blacks rounded up at Central Station, Piccadilly and Victoria… Far fetched?… The Smiths’ Manchester The Smiths’ Manchester 31/03/2019 2:30 pm – 31/03/2019 4:15 pm March tour: Sun 31 March, 2.30pm. Meet: Art Gallery, Mosley Street. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Sharper than the Beatles, funkier than the Stones, cleverer than the Who, funnier than Madness, more…