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			1 “Burns Night”. Hear Land O’ Cakes and brither Scots! The Peterloo Massacre (film release special!) The Peterloo Massacre (film release special!) 01/11/2018 5:30 pm – 01/11/2018 7:15 pm November (film release special!) Date: Thu 1 November 2018. Meet: Central Library, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. On Friday 2 November Mike Leigh’s long-awaited Peterloo film will be released. Consequently, the evening…	2	3	4
5	6	7 The Peterloo Massacre (film release special!) Engels & Marx in Manchester PRIVATE TOUR Engels & Marx in Manchester PRIVATE TOUR 07/11/2018 3:00 pm – 07/11/2018 4:40 pm By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By night they were rabid radicals, roaming the streets with revolutionary fervour. They were Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, two…	8 Engels & Marx in Manchester PRIVATE TOUR Engels & Marx in Manchester PRIVATE TOUR Exploring the Old Manchester Docks/Salford Quays Exploring the Old Manchester Docks/Salford Quays 08/11/2018 11:30 am – 08/11/2018 1:15 pm Next tour: Thu 8 November 2018 Meet: Salford Quays Metrolink stop, 11.30am. Please book here with eventbrite. Glass, steel and burnished metal tower over Salford Quays and huge docks which once harboured the… Spooky Manchester Spooky Manchester 08/11/2018 5:30 pm – 08/11/2018 7:15 pm November 2018 public tour: Thu 8 November 2018. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap (on top of the old graveyard), 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite soon. Ideal: for a private booking…if you want your…	9	10 Spooky Manchester Gangland Manchester – “You’re Nicked, Sunshine!” Gangland Manchester – “You’re Nicked, Sunshine!” 10/11/2018 12:00 pm – 10/11/2018 1:45 pm My name is Ed Glinert. When I went to sleep last night it was 2015, but when I woke up I found myself back in 1973, a Manchester of rounded…	11 Gangland Manchester – “You’re Nicked, Sunshine!” Gangland Manchester – “You’re Nicked, Sunshine!” Midland Hotel De-Luxe Tour Midland Hotel De-Luxe Tour • Sun 11 November 2018, 2.30pm. Tea followed by tour. Please book here with eventbrite. • Sun 11 November 2018, 4pm. Tour only. Please book here with eventbrite. There will be no tea/tour in… Manchester At War: Armistice Day Commemoration Manchester At War: Armistice Day Commemoration 11/11/2018 1:00 pm – 11/11/2018 3:00 pm Please book here with eventbrite. It was the first Great War, the war to end all wars. The fight against an evil militarism that had taken hold in Germany, so they…
12 Manchester At War: Armistice Day Commemoration Manchester At War: Armistice Day Commemoration Women Can Now Vote! Centenary Celebration Tour Women Can Now Vote! Centenary Celebration Tour 12/11/2018 2:00 pm – 12/11/2018 3:45 pm Tour: Mon 12 November 2018, 2pm. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Sq, 2pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. What You Need To Think About First… On 12 November 1918, the day after the Great… The Secret History of Manchester The Secret History of Manchester 12/11/2018 5:30 pm – 12/11/2018 7:15 pm • Mon 12 November 2018, 5.30pm. Please book here on eventbrite. You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 40 years unturning every last…	13	14 The Secret History of Manchester Midland Hotel (Private tour) Midland Hotel (Private tour) 14/11/2018 2:00 pm – 14/11/2018 3:45 pm This is a private tour, but we have plenty of public dates. Please see website and book on eventbrite.	15 Midland Hotel (Private tour) Midland Hotel (Private tour) Radical Manchester Radical Manchester 15/11/2018 1:30 pm – 15/11/2018 3:15 pm John Alker visits the sites and shrines of Manchester’s Left involving Peterloo, Marx & Engels, women’s suffrage, trade unions, radicals & rebels. The Formidable Women of Manchester The Formidable Women of Manchester 15/11/2018 5:00 pm – 15/11/2018 6:40 pm November: Thu 15 November 2018 Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 5pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. * Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848. *…	16	17 The Formidable Women of Manchester The Pre-Raphaelites and Their World The Pre-Raphaelites and Their World 17/11/2018 11:00 am – 17/11/2018 12:30 pm This tour: Sat 17 Nov, 11am. Meet: Art Gallery entrance. Booking: Please book here on eventbrite. The Pre-Raphaelites were Britain’s most important art school. They were aesthetes and zealots determined to bring honesty, drama and…	18 The Pre-Raphaelites and Their World The Pre-Raphaelites and Their World Peterloo, Part 1 (“We are on the Brink of Liberty”) Peterloo, Part 1 (“We are on the Brink of Liberty”) 18/11/2018 11:30 am – 18/11/2018 1:15 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Manchester, early 19th century: war, hardship, poverty, injustice, pollution, disease. With the Napoleonic wars over in 1815, people were expecting a better time, but things got… Peterloo, Part 2 (“Remember the Foul Deeds of Peterloo”) Peterloo, Part 2 (“Remember the Foul Deeds of Peterloo”) 18/11/2018 2:00 pm – 18/11/2018 3:45 pm Please book here with eventbrite. The hairs will stand up on the back of your neck when Peterloo expert and Penguin author Ed Glinert reads out the names of the dozen-plus…
19	20	21 Peterloo, Part 2 (“Remember the Foul Deeds of Peterloo”) Peterloo, Part 2 (“Remember the Foul Deeds of Peterloo”) Southern Cemetery tour Southern Cemetery tour 21/11/2018 11:30 am – 21/11/2018 1:15 pm This Tour: Wed 21 November 2018. (11.30am). Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials), Barlow Moor Road (Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop, 8 minutes walk away). Don’t Go To: The Crematorium, Nell… Manchester Central Library Manchester Central Library 21/11/2018 2:30 pm – 21/11/2018 4:15 pm Next tour: Wed 21 November, 2.30pm. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Manchester’s magnificent and multi-volumed municipal library re-opened in March 2014 after a multi-million pound refit…	22	23 Manchester Central Library Manchester Central Library The Fenian Hangings of 23 Nov 1867 The Fenian Hangings of 23 Nov 1867 23/11/2018 2:00 pm – 23/11/2018 3:30 pm It was one of the blackest days in Manchester history. Three men – possibly innocent – hanged on 23 November 1867 for their part in the ambush of a prison… Angel Meadow…Victorian Hell-Hole Angel Meadow…Victorian Hell-Hole 23/11/2018 5:30 pm – 23/11/2018 7:15 pm Next tours: November: Fri 23 November 2018, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. January 2019: Details soon Death, decay, dead souls and devilment. This is Angel Meadow, Victorian hell-hole, cholera-infested ghetto and industrial…	24 Angel Meadow…Victorian Hell-Hole The Politically Correct Tour of Manchester The Politically Correct Tour of Manchester 24/11/2018 2:00 pm – 24/11/2018 4:00 pm Please book here with eventbrite. * Saturday 24 November 2018. Meet at the Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 2pm. We name the guilty men (and women): the slave traders, colonialists, warmongers, racists, fascists,…	25
26	27	28 The Politically Correct Tour of Manchester The Politically Correct Tour of Manchester The Politically Correct Tour of Manchester John Rylands Library And… John Rylands Library And… 28/11/2018 11:00 am – 28/11/2018 12:45 pm Meet: St Ann’s church. Next tour: Wed 28 November, 11am. Please book here with eventbrite. The John Rylands Library is one of the world’s greatest libraries – Manchester’s No. 1 attraction on TripAdvisor – thanks… Chetham’s & Manchester Cathedral Chetham’s & Manchester Cathedral 28/11/2018 1:45 pm – 28/11/2018 3:30 pm Please book with eventbrite here. * Chetham’s: Europe’s oldest library, housed in Tudor buildings that were for nearly two hundred years a college of priests. * Manchester Cathedral: an ancient place of… Hell Is A City Hell Is A City 28/11/2018 5:30 pm – 28/11/2018 7:15 pm Next tour: Wed 28 November 2018, 5.30pm. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. * First a caveat. There has been a concerted campaign on social media and in the Sun newspaper to denigrate…	29 Hell Is A City The Wrong Side of the Law The Wrong Side of the Law 29/11/2018 1:30 pm – 29/11/2018 3:30 pm John Alker rounds up the bad boys, murderers, mobsters, bodysnatchers & hangmen, of Manchester’s criminal past.	30