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Here’s an example with The Light of the World, by William Homan Hunt (1851-56). This picture not only hangs in Manchester Art Gallery but it also at Keble College Oxford and St Paul’s Cathedral. So which is the real one or all three equally authentic? The St Paul’s canvas was painted nearly fifty years later, with the assistance of Edward Robert Hughes. The Manchester version might be by his pupil Fred Stephens.
In the painting Christ is knocking at the door, i.e. the human soul, an idea taken from Revelation 3:20.
“Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.”
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21/04/2024
Here’s the set list
* Tony Wilson’s pad.
* The Boardwalk, where Oasis made their debut.
* The Hacienda.
* Elbow’s “hole in my neighbourhood”.
* The Free Trade Hall, where Bob Dylan was booed and the Sex Pistols invented the modern Manchester music scene.
* The basement record shop where Morrissey had a job – yes! – for about five minutes...
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27/04/2024
These 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).
Although this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'buy tickets' below to reserve your free place.
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27/04/2024
“The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy, and most wicked locality in Manchester…full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, cadgers, vagrants and tramps.”
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