Events in July 2023
02/07/2023 - The Pre-Raphaelites: Ed Glinert talk for Stockport Art Guild
03/07/2023 - The Smiths PRIVATE tour
The Smiths PRIVATE tour
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03/07/202304/07/2023 - Portico Library Summer Quiz!
Portico Library Summer Quiz!
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04/07/2023
08/07/2023 - Secret History of Manchester TALK at the Portico Library
09/07/2023 - Russian Manchester (private tour) and 1 other event
Russian Manchester (private tour)
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09/07/2023
Marx & Engels Private Tour
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09/07/2023Follow in the footsteps of the men who created a political philosophy that dominated half the world during the 20th century. Hugely entertaining, informative and intriguing, the tour has been devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s The Manchester Compendium...
HOME10/07/2023 - Northern Quarter & Ancoats private tour
Northern Quarter & Ancoats private tour
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10/07/202311/07/2023 - Best, Law & Charlton: FREE Zoom with Trafford Libraries
13/07/2023 - Victorian Manchester: Private school tour
Victorian Manchester: Private school tour
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13/07/2023HOME16/07/2023 - GM Ringway Salford Quays tour and 1 other event
GM Ringway Salford Quays tour
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16/07/2023
Wharfside Tram StopBridgewater Canal: Official Annual Celebration
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16/07/2023
Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading canal historian, to explore the waters, banks and history of the Bridgewater Canal, Britain’s first man-made waterway, which saw Manchester launch the industrial revolution in the 1760s.
21/07/2023 - In Search of the Ship Canal: Annual FREE tour
In Search of the Ship Canal: Annual FREE tour
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21/07/2023Outside the Science & Industry Museum
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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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