Week of Jan 30th
03/02/2023 - Manchester's Music Heroes FREE Bank Holiday Tour
Manchester's Music Heroes FREE Bank Holiday Tour
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03/02/2023
Morrissey – John Cooper Clarke – Mark E. Smith – Ian Curtis – Shaun Ryder – the Gallaghers – Pete Shelley – Johnny Marr – Tony Wilson – Guy Garvey – Barry Adamson - A Guy Called Gerald – A Certain Ratio – Mick Hucknall – Doves – Peter Hammill – Distractions – Durutti Column – Graham Gouldman – Graham Nash – Lek Leckenby
HOME04/02/2023 - Sylvia Pankhurst Annual Birthday FREE tour and 1 other event
Sylvia Pankhurst Annual Birthday FREE tour
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04/02/2023
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. Henry Hunt, the main speaker at the Peterloo rally that never happened, later became the first MP to put forward a bill to allow women to vote in general elections...
Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LF
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
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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