Events in March 2024
01/03/2024 - Salford Quays FREE Expert Tour
Salford Quays FREE Expert Tour
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01/03/2024
Here a new city has risen; a city of glass, steel and burnished metal, bold and brilliant. On one side of the water the silver shards of the Imperial War Museum North. On the other the Lowry Centre, a matchless theatre for the matchstick figure artist. And they have now been joined by Media City, the futuristic home of the BBC.
Salford Quays Metrolink stop03/03/2024 - Political Manchester (Private Tour) and 1 other event
Political Manchester (Private Tour)
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03/03/2024Central LibraryPolitical Manchester (Private Tour)
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03/03/202408/03/2024 - The Formidable Women of Manchester (On International Women's Day)
10/03/2024 - The Pankhursts of Manchester / Suffragette City: Expert Tour
The Pankhursts of Manchester / Suffragette City: Expert Tour
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10/03/2024
It 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 4LF16/03/2024 - No tours Sat 16 March!
No tours Sat 16 March!
16/03/2024
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Manchester News
- 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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