Events in May 2024
01/05/2024 - The 1st Labour Government 100 Years on. Ed Glinert's talk at the Portico Library
The 1st Labour Government 100 Years on. Ed Glinert's talk at the Portico Library
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01/05/2024Portico Library, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester M2 3HY04/05/2024 - Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years (expert tour)
Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years (expert tour)
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04/05/2024HOMEAlthough this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'buy tickets' below to reserve your free place.
Buy Tickets05/05/2024 - Sylvia Pankhurst Annual Birthday Tour
Sylvia Pankhurst Annual Birthday Tour
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05/05/2024Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LF06/05/2024 - The Secret History of Manchester. Free tour on Bank Holiday Monday
The Secret History of Manchester. Free tour on Bank Holiday Monday
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06/05/2024You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 45 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in the city, uncovering layer upon layer of other histories, lesser-known stories, the secret side of the city to create the ultimate “believe it or not”.
Outside the Mercure Hotel08/05/2024 - The Knutsford Explorer FREE Expert Tour
The Knutsford Explorer FREE Expert Tour
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08/05/2024Knutsford Station11/05/2024 - Secrets of Ancoats FREE Expert Tour
Secrets of Ancoats FREE Expert Tour
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11/05/202412/05/2024 - The Formidable Women of Manchester (Private Tour)
The Formidable Women of Manchester (Private Tour)
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12/05/2024* Annie Horniman, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company.
* Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848.
* Hannah Mitchell, who challenged Churchill at St John’s School during the Suffragette era.
* Shelagh Delaney who pioneered modernist theatre with her groundbreaking A Taste of Honey...Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LF14/05/2024 - Manchester Libraries Honoured: the Portico & the streets of Chinatown. FREE expert tour
Manchester Libraries Honoured: the Portico & the streets of Chinatown. FREE expert tour
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14/05/2024As part of the Manchester Libraries Festival, official Manchester tour guide Ed Glinert leads this detailed tour of the Portico Library and the history of the streets around,
Manchester Art Gallery18/05/2024 - Ian Curtis's Manchester (Annual Tour on 18 May) and 1 other event
Ian Curtis's Manchester (Annual Tour on 18 May)
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18/05/2024Calling all Ian Curtis/Joy Division fans. We meet hundreds of you every year aimlessly wandering around Manchester city centre looking for relevant locations: the Hacienda, Rafter’s, the Britons Protection .... If only you booked a tour with us, you’d find out so much more, and we could relate all these places and their music stories with the history of the city while playing the appropriate track at the relevant site/sight!
Outside the Mercure HotelThe Smiths’ Manchester (Mozarmy Weekend)
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18/05/2024Outside the Mercure Hotel24/05/2024 - The Formidable Women of Manchester FREE expert tour (WOW Festival)
The Formidable Women of Manchester FREE expert tour (WOW Festival)
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24/05/2024Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LFAlthough this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'Buy Tickets' below to reserve your spot.
Buy Tickets25/05/2024 - The Grand Canals of Manchester (West to Castlefield)
The Grand Canals of Manchester (West to Castlefield)
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25/05/2024This is a spectacular stroll along the waterways of Manchester, invoking a host of stories industrial and architectural, anecdotal and incidental, as we head west from Piccadilly, along the canals under the city streets towards Britain’s grand canal junction at Castlefield where four waterways cross...
Malmaison Hotel26/05/2024 - Exploring Little Ireland, with Engels, Orwell, Turing, Gandhi...
Exploring Little Ireland, with Engels, Orwell, Turing, Gandhi...
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26/05/2024HOME27/05/2024 - The Pankhursts of Manchester / Suffragette City: Expert Tour and 1 other event
The Pankhursts of Manchester / Suffragette City: Expert Tour
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27/05/2024It is now just over a hundred and three years (1 December 1919) since a woman entered the British Parliament for the first time. American socialite Nancy Astor won a by-election for the Unionists in Plymouth Sutton, ironically replacing her husband, Waldorf Astor, who had just been ennobled.
The campaign to win women the vote and the right to enter the Commons had been raging ever since more than a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819...
Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LFRomans, Religious Relics and Railways FREE tour on Bank Holiday Monday
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27/05/2024Please register for free with Eventbrite.