People: George Best to the Pankhursts
Marx & Engels in Manchester
Next walk: Sunday 5 March 2023 Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to register with Eventbrite. *** Join us to follow in the Manchester footsteps of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the men who created a political philosophy that dominated half the world during the 20th …
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William Shakespeare
No dates yet. Date: Meet: Entrance, John Rylands Library, time tbc. Booking: Not yet. This is an ingenious new tour dedicated to a man who probably never came to Manchester. But why should that matter? The city centre is alive with mementos to the Bard and dedications to his protagonists. We’ve found seven obvious locations …
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Thomas de Quincey
Next tour is FREE: Tuesday 5 October 2021 Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Born in a hotel on Manchester’s Cross Street in 1785, Thomas De Quincey is perhaps the greatest local-born writer in Manchester history. Well, him and Anthony Burgess. Originally he was plain Thomas Quincey (he …
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Anthony Burgess’s Manchester
Next FREE walking tour: NO DATES YET Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square Booking: He was a polymath and polyglot who chain smoked for England and wrote more words than Dickens, Wells and Trollope combined. Manchester was his city, even though once he had enough money to move out of Moss Side he …
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George Brown
Is Boris Johnson the most unsuitable foreign secretary Britain has ever had? No. That title belongs to George Brown, the dypso deputy leader of the Labour Party at the end of the ’60s. Private Eye coined the phrase “tired and emotional”, meaning blind drunk, after Brown publicly insulted the wife of the British ambassador to …
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Suffragette City/The Pankhursts
The next Pankhurst walking tours are FREE but please book on Eventbrite so that we can regulate numbers: Next Free Tour: Saturday 11 March 2023. Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. It is now just over a hundred and two years (1 December 1919) since …
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Winston Churchill’s Manchester
Next tour: No dates as yet. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens, time tbc. Was Winston Churchill the greatest Englishman of the 20th century or was he an egomaniac who should be vilified for using poison gas on the Iraqis? Was he the champion of democracy and decency, the main bulwark against the Nazi psychopaths, or …
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Sylvia Pankhurst
* Next tour: Sunday 27 September 2020. * Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square, 2.30pm. * Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. * 27 September 2020 marks the 60th anniversary of Sylvia’s death which we will be marking with this tour. She was Britain’s greatest female political activist. She led the campaign …
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The Rothschilds and Manchester
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Matt Busby – The Man Who United Manchester
Bob Paisley won more trophies, Bill Shankly made more noise, Alf was better spoken. But nobody commanded more respect than Matt. It may have been the calm air of authority he carried around with him or the fact that he got things done. People looked up to him and did according to his bidding. Matt Busby …
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- Book a political tour of Manchester with hard-hitting, no-nonsense, die-hard politico Ed Glinert!
Join me, Ed Glinert, hungry political animal, for an expert tour or talk on the Pankhursts, Peterloo, Slavery, Marx & Engels in Manchester or anything that involves socialism, capitalism, communism, even fascism. Ideal for school syllabuses, trade union groups….anyone who wants to know how the world works and used to work.
