Category Archives: News

I know we live in strange times, and are surrounded by lots of unexplained phenomena, like how anyone thought Liz Truss should be leader of the Tory party and PM, and why Chelsea or anyone would appoint Frank Lampard as manager, but some of the stuff I’ve had to endure this week has been strange even by the usual odd guiding standards. On Wednesday some 16 people booked for the Secret History tour. Two turned up. Continue reading →

If football is, as many are alleging, “coming home”, where is it coming home to? It can’t be Wembley Stadium; not the new Wembley, that concrete monstrosity which has replaced the 1966 World Cup winning stadium and Owen Williams’ beautiful twin towers, unnecessarily demolished. It can’t be any individual club ground. No, the only place I can think of that is the true home of football is the place where the Football Association, the world’s first such body in the modern era, was founded: the Freemason’s Tavern on Long Acre, Covent Garden, London (now the Connaught Rooms). It was there… Continue reading →

Well, we knew it would happen one day. The world is gradually unlocking and we at New Manchester Walks are in the forefront of a return to tourism, history, guiding. We’re also thinking of your safety, so masks are welcome.

Coming up: Ancoats, Angel Meadow, Jewish, Music, Northern Quarter, Peterloo, Secret History, the Smiths, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways and so much more. Continue reading →

This is the official expert entertaining introduction to the city, an in-depth, original and eye-opening tour devised by Manchester’s most prolific tour guide and energetic historian, Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium and compiler of the Manchester Encyclopaedia. Continue reading →

* Tour: Sat 1 July 2023, 10.30am.
* Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square.
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. Continue reading →

Let’s rename Mosley Street Pankhurst Street
A campaign launched by Ed Glinert
Talk at the Portico Library, Tuesday 11 July, 6pm.
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Statues of the not so great and good have been toppled. Public halls renamed. Street names have been altered – but not in Manchester.

We’re behind, despite our two hundred-plus years of radical activity. And yet we have the obvious Manchester campaign within this topic to get behind –removing all signs of the horrendous Mosley family and replacing them in honour of our greatest local family – the Pankhursts. Continue reading →

We at New Manchester Walks have been honoured to have taken so many people around the city on the trail of Ian Curtis’s Manchester which we have been running during the Art Gallery’s summer Joy Division exhibition: “True Faith” (in collaboration with the Gallery).

The exhibition, which runs from 30 June-3 September, is being curated by Jon Savage with whom New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert worked on Mojo magazine in the 1990s.

Next dates for tours, starting at the Art Gallery entrance:
* Thu 24 August, 5.30pm.
Please book with eventbrite by pressing “Continue Reading” and following the link. Continue reading →

* Sunday 8 July, Engels & Marx in Manchester.
* Meet: St Ann’s Church, 2pm.

Comrades! Follow in the footsteps of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, the men who created a political philosophy that dominated half the world during the 20th century. 

This tour, hugely entertaining, informative and intriguing, has been devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s The Manchester Compendium and many other tomes published by the cream of British publishers, who has been hacking away at the coal-face of local politics for 35 years, including a stint at the heart of one of the most sinister Trotskyite cells Hulme ever witnessed. Continue reading →

Join “111 Places in Yorkshire You Shouldn’t Miss” author and cruise ships speaker Ed Glinert on this magical walk around Haworth to meet some of the most memorable figures in English literature – Heathcliff, Cathy, the wimpishly wet Edgar, the brutish Hareton, the insufferable Pharisee Joseph, the egotistical Lockwood, residents of Gimmerton, home of Wuthering Heights, and setting for the wild, windy, wuthering moors inspired by the real-life Haworth in West Yorkshire. Continue reading →

Smiths-Morrissey Coach Tour:
All the Manchester Area Sites & Stories

* Sat 21 September, 11am-2pm (finish time depending on traffic).
* Meet coach stop Albert Square (opposite the Town Hall).
* Please press here to book with eventbrite.
* Cost: £21 including eventbrite/Facebook booking fee

You’ve heard the records, lived the life, sang along to the songs, given up meat, cut your hair like Johnny Marr, bought an Andy Rourke-styled suede jacket, raised your eyes at Moz’s recent statements…now visit the sites where Mozzish music history was made (by coach and foot). Continue reading →