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SUMMARY:Formidable Women of Manchester (Tour during International Women's Week)
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: Tuesday 10 March 2026 (International Women’s Week).\nMeet: outside Manchester Art Gallery\, 2pm.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nThese women and more… \n* Annie Horniman\, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company.\n* Elizabeth Gaskell\, who wrote Mary Barton\, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848.\n* Hannah Mitchell\, who challenged Churchill at St John’s School during the Suffragette era.\n* Shelagh Delaney who pioneered modernist theatre with her groundbreaking A Taste of Honey.\n* Ellen Wilkinson – “Red Ellen” who accompanied the Jarrow miners to London.\n* Kathleen Ollerenshaw\, who overcame deafness to become Lord Mayor\, a leading educationalist\, mathematician and advisor to Margaret Thatcher (now what sort of job is that for a Mancunian?!).\n* Sylvia Pankhurst\, Britain’s greatest political campaigner. \nThese are just some of the heroic Manchester women we will be celebrating.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/formidable-women-of-manchester-tour-during-international-womens-week/
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SUMMARY:The Little Ireland Explorer (Manchester) on St Patrick's Day
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: The Little Ireland Explorer (Manchester) on St Patrick’s Day\nTuesday 17 March 2026.\nMeet: Outside HOME\, 2.30 p.m.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \n \nFor 2026\, we’re doing it a little differently\, exploring Little Ireland as well as focusing on great Irishmen and women who have made their mark on Manchester. \nLittle Ireland was the ghetto/slum/rookery around the railway viaduct that stretched from London Road station (now Piccadilly) to Gaythorn (where HOME now stands). \nThis is a little-known\, seldom-heard side of Manchester history. The working-class community around St Augustine’s Catholic church was bombed in the 1940s and redeveloped out in the 1950s. Of the church\, there’s nothing left\, apart from the pictures\, the memories and the great stories. UMIST replaced it. A new church was built in Grosvenor Square\, half a mile away. \nThe best known story around here is Friedrich Engels’s description of Little Ireland from Condition of the Working Class\, but you’ll have to come on the tour to hear that! \nAs for those great Irish men. There’s Brendan Behan: genius writer or terrorist? In 1939 Behan spent a night inside Bootle Street police station in 1939 after entering Britain illegally. He had been banned from the country under the Prevention of Violence Act after shooting at three policemen. But on being released\, during an amnesty\, he came to Manchester at the invitation of the local IRA cell\, thereby reneging on the deal. \nIn Manchester\, Behan was arrested by Robert Mark\, then a detective constable in the Special Branch\, who went on to become Commissionaire of the Metropolitan Police. In court Behan was given an extra four months on his jail sentence\, despite or perhaps because of the pleas of his lawyer who kept referring to the writer as a “love choild of the Oirish revolution”. \nNo wonder Karl Marx urged Britain to solve the Irish question before choosing socialism. \nBut don’t worry\, we won’t get too political. We’ll also talk about George Best\, Phil Lynott\, Little Ireland\, Irish Town and find some time for a chorus or two of the Waxie’s Dargle.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/the-little-ireland-explorer-manchester-on-st-patricks-day/
LOCATION:HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, Select a State:\, M15 4GU\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Secret Manchester (The Official Tour)
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: Sat 21 March 2026\, 2.15 p.m.\nMeet: Outside the Mercure Hotel\, Portland Street.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. \n*** \nYou 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”. \n* Did you know there is an atomic bunker under Piccadilly Gardens and Chinatown with a branch leading to the Town Hall?\n* That L. S. Lowry was a secret sadist.\n* Did you know there were race riots in the city during the Second World War thanks to the presence of an invading army.\n* Did you know that the pillar box on Corporation Street is NOT the one that survived the 1996 IRA bomb?\n* Did you know the council voted to demolish the Town Hall?\n* Do you know how many secret service agents are in the Midland Hotel right now planting bugs? \nIt’s the Manchester that nobody knows…apart from Glinert and you after you’ve been on this tour! \n  \n \n \nHere’s something else you didn’t know (we hope). During the Second World War the Government requisitioned a well-known building in Manchester city centre to be a secret regional HQ\, to take over the running of not just Manchester but the entire North-West should Nazi invasion look imminent. \nIt was kitted out with the most sophisticated communications equipment\, food and beds. Winston Churchill\, prime minister\, even kipped there one night to show how safe it was. But of course it was never needed. Where is it? Ah… \nThis is a trip into the deepest historical secrets of Manchester. Sites\, streets\, spaces that you’ve walked past a thousand times will never look the same again. The tour is conducted by Ed Glinert\, who knows Manchester better than anyone and knows the things that nobody else (apart from the people who told him) knows.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/secret-manchester-private-tour/
LOCATION:Mercure Hotel (outside)\, Portland Street\, Manchester\, M1 4PH\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Pre-Raphaelites in Manchester. Expert Tour
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: Tuesday 31 March 2026\, 2.30 p.m.\nMeet: Outside Manchester Art Gallery.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nEd Glinert\, official Manchester tour guide and author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium\, leads this fascinating fact-filled tour around the gallery’s best-loved Victorian paintings. \nThe Pre-Raphaelites were Britain’s most important art school. They were aesthetes and zealots determined to bring honesty\, drama and colourful vitality to staid Victorian painting. \nThey were formed in 1848\, the year of revolution across Europe. But this was no political coup. This was art terrorism\, powered by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. \nReacting against the reactionary nature of Joshua Reynolds and the Royal Academy\, the Pre-Raphaelites wished to create a body of work similar in brightness of colour\, attention to detail\, and honest simplicity to the period of Italian painting prior to Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520). \nRossetti wanted the group’s name to include the then fashionable term “Early Christian”\, but when Hunt objected he proposed “Pre-Raphaelite”. Rossetti then added the word “Brotherhood”\, as he wanted the society to be secret\, in line with the Italian political group the Carbonaris in that year of revolution across Europe. When the artists staged their first exhibition Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Girlhood of Mary Virgin was signed “PRB” to maintain the society’s air of mystery. \nManchester has an unrivalled collection of the PRB’s works\, dominated by William Holman Hunt’s spiritual Light of the World\, his daring Shadow of Death and the eerie Scapegoat. This is art which benefits from intense scrutiny; from unravelling and demystifying the religious connotations and human dramas involved. \n. \nOnly Ed Glinert\, official Manchester tour guide and Arts Society lecturer\, can reveal the mysteries and symbolism of the gallery’s best loved Victorian paintings. \n \n \nThe Pre-Raphaelites were Britain’s most important art school. They were aesthetes and zealots determined to bring honesty\, drama and colourful vitality to staid Victorian painting. \nThey were formed in 1848\, the year of revolution across Europe. But this was no political coup. This was art terrorism\, powered by Dante Gabriel Rossetti\, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. \nReacting against the reactionary nature of Joshua Reynolds and the Royal Academy\, they wished to create a body of work similar in brightness of colour\, attention to detail\, and honest simplicity to the period of Italian painting prior to Raphael Sanzio (1483-1520). \nRossetti wanted the group’s name to include the then fashionable term “Early Christian”\, but when Hunt objected he proposed “Pre-Raphaelite”. Rossetti then added the word “Brotherhood”\, as he wanted the society to be secret\, in line with the Italian political group the Carbonaris in that year of revolution across Europe. When the artists staged their first exhibition Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Girlhood of Mary Virgin was signed “PRB” to maintain the society’s air of mystery. \nManchester has an unrivalled collection of the PRB’s works\, dominated by William Holman Hunt’s spiritual Light of the World\, his daring Shadow of Death and the eerie Scapegoat. This is art which benefits from intense scrutiny; from unravelling and demystifying the religious connotations and human dramas involved.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/the-pre-raphaelites-in-manchester-expert-tour/
LOCATION:Outside St Ann’s Church\, St Ann Street\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
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