The Manchester Compendium

“This superb work of in-depth research and dry Northern wit” – The Independent

“Fascinating facts and insights” – Manchester Confidential

“If you buy one book on Manchester, make it this one” – CreativeTourist.com.

The Manchester Compendium by New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert, published by Penguin, is a guide book with a difference. It details the history of Manchester – from the Roman invasion in AD 79 through to the Industrial Revolution, canals, cotton, Peterloo, the first railways, free trade, Victorian grandeur, the Docks, the Halle, 20th century commercialisation, War, L S Lowry, the Busby Babes, Coronation Street, the Hacienda, 21st century rebirth – area by area, street by street, building by building.

No other book on Manchester can offer you so detailed and immediate a history of Manchester locations, from Chorlton to Chorlton-on-Medlock, from Didsbury to Deansgate, from New Windsor to New Islington, as the Compendium. Available in all good bookshops in old-fashioned book form, it is also gradually being made available for inspection on the New Manchester Walks website, updated, corrected and extended, beginning soon with Portland Street.

Watch this space.