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04/05/2024
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05/05/2024
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06/05/2024
You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 45 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in the city, uncovering layer upon layer of other histories, lesser-known stories, the secret side of the city to create the ultimate “believe it or not”.
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08/05/2024
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11/05/2024
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12/05/2024
* Annie Horniman, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company.
* Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848.
* Hannah Mitchell, who challenged Churchill at St John’s School during the Suffragette era.
* Shelagh Delaney who pioneered modernist theatre with her groundbreaking A Taste of Honey...
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14/05/2024
As part of the Manchester Libraries Festival, official Manchester tour guide Ed Glinert leads this detailed tour of the Portico Library and the history of the streets around,
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18/05/2024
Calling all Ian Curtis/Joy Division fans. We meet hundreds of you every year aimlessly wandering around Manchester city centre looking for relevant locations: the Hacienda, Rafter’s, the Britons Protection .... If only you booked a tour with us, you’d find out so much more, and we could relate all these places and their music stories with the history of the city while playing the appropriate track at the relevant site/sight!
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18/05/2024
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24/05/2024
Although this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'Buy Tickets' below to reserve your spot.
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25/05/2024
This is a spectacular stroll along the waterways of Manchester, invoking a host of stories industrial and architectural, anecdotal and incidental, as we head west from Piccadilly, along the canals under the city streets towards Britain’s grand canal junction at Castlefield where four waterways cross...
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26/05/2024
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27/05/2024
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...