Events in August 2023
06/08/2023 - Private "Welcome to Manchester" tour for new local doctors
08/08/2023 - Manchester Music: Private walking and car tour
Manchester Music: Private walking and car tour
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08/08/2023
09/08/2023 - The Pankhursts (private talk at Dukinfield Library) and 1 other event
The Pankhursts (private talk at Dukinfield Library)
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09/08/2023Although this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'buy tickets' below to reserve your free place.
Buy TicketsBeatles Liverpool: private walk and car tour
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09/08/2023
10/08/2023 - Tony Wilson's Manchester (on the anniversary of his death)
Tony Wilson's Manchester (on the anniversary of his death)
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10/08/2023
Tony Wilson never wrote a song, sang one or played an instrument. Yet he created the modern Manchester music scene. He made things happen; he cajoled people into doing important things. He harried, encouraged, pushed, promoted. It might be fair to say without him Manchester’s music history might have stopped with Sad Café.
HOME16/08/2023 - Peterloo Massacre: FREE expert tour on the anniversary
Peterloo Massacre: FREE expert tour on the anniversary
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16/08/2023These unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, Penguin author and compiler of the forthcoming Manchester Encyclopaedia, who has conducted enormous amounts of recent research into the entire Peterloo story (with many thanks to Mike Herbert’s invaluable expertise).
The Peterloo Memorial24/08/2023 - Marx & Engels in Manchester: private tour
Marx & Engels in Manchester: private tour
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24/08/2023
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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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