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Victorian Manchester (Hell Is A City)
Next tour: Thu 29 Sep 2016. Meet: Oxford Road station, 11am. Rivers clogged with excrement and decomposing bodies. Rampant crime. Factories vomiting toxic plumes and changing the colour of the horizon for miles around. Is this Manchester today? Not quite. … Continue reading
Tory Manchester
Next tour: Maybe to kick-off the 2023 Tory conference in Manchester. Meet: Booking: George the Chancellor said on Wednesday 3 December 2014: “Our ambition is to build a northern powerhouse as a complement to the strength of our … Continue reading
Suffragette City/The Pankhursts
Next Tour: Tue 26 May 2026, 2pm. Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. It is now more than a hundred and five years (1 December 1919) since a woman … Continue reading
Manchester and Slavery
Next tour: Saturday 18 October 2025 (International Anti-Slavery Day) Starts: 11am from Victoria Station wallmap. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Manchester has hit the news big style! Simon Hattenstone in the the Guardian … Continue reading
Seditious Salford
Next tour: no dates yet. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. Booking: 25 September 1838: the Manchester Political Union sponsored a huge political rally at Kersal Moor, Salford. The bosses closed their factories for the day. A crowd of a quarter of … Continue reading
Reds, Radicals and Revolutionaries
Next tour: Saturday 29 June 2024. Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. *** What ever happened to Leon Trotsky? Well he never came to Manchester, but Marx and Engels did, and “Orator” Hunt, … Continue reading
The Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo tours on the day: Saturday 16 August (Peterloo Day) 2025, 11am. Meet: outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. These unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, Penguin author and … Continue reading
Manchester’s Political Prisoners
Next tours: No public dates yet. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Bring: A copy of Clause IV, if you can prise it from Tony Blair’s hands. More apt than Mao’s Little Red Book. How apt that the People’s History Museum … Continue reading
Engels & Marx in Manchester Pub Tour: Drinkers of the World Unite!
Marx & Engels pub tour:No public dates. To book a private tour for your organisation, please e-mail info@new manchesterwalks.com. Booking: *** Follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, inventor of that phenomenally popular political system – communism – and Friedrich … Continue reading
