Political Manchester
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 a million flocked to the moor. They were accompanied by 20 bands and were carrying …
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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, Robert Owen, the Pankhursts too. So, fellow carbonari, compadres, communards and comrades, come and follow …
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The Peterloo Massacre
Peterloo tours on the day: No. 1: Friday 16 August (Peterloo Day) 2024, 1pm. Meet: outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. No. 2: Friday 16 August (Peterloo Day) 2024, 6.20pm (after the names are read). Meet: At the Peterloo Memorial Booking: Please press here to book with …
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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 in Manchester is located on the left bank (sic) of the river Irwell. But why …
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Engels & Marx in Manchester: Walkers of the World Unite!
Next FREE walk: Saturday 7 September 2024. Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, inventor of that perennially popular political system – communism – and Friedrich Engels, the German cotton merchant and secret revolutionary …
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Disraeli, Gladstone and Cobden – Victorian Titans
Next tour: No more public dates yet. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens. Bring: An open mind and an endless font of curiosity. End: Cobden’s House. Calling all history and politics teachers. Book privately: this walk is ideal for your “A” Level students! For more details, contact New Manchester Walks. *** Benjamin Disraeli: 19th century prime minister and …
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Engels & Marx in Manchester
Next FREE walk: Saturday 22 June 2024. Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Follow in the footsteps of the men who created a political philosophy that dominated half the world during the 20th century. Hugely entertaining, informative and intriguing, the tour …
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