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Here’s a much-needed new venture: The Manchester Literature Festival Fringe. We will be celebrating the literature of Manchester and beyond all year round. Our first event will be a tour this summer of Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester on Sunday 29 July.

In October there will be a full showcase of tours.

The Manchester Literature Festival Fringe is the brainchild of Ed Glinert, much-published author with Penguin, HarperCollins, Random House and Bloomsbury.
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, pioneers of communism, devout politicos, rabble-rousers, rebels, radicals and revolutionaries, came to Manchester on many occasions in the mid-19th century to see the effect capitalism was having at the coal-face of the Industrial Revolution. Join that well-known polemicist and rhetorician Ed Glinert on Sat 15 November 2014.
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Our much-anticipated summer programme is now out and the leaflet should be arriving at a library/information centre/gallery/venue near you very soon.

In the meantime, you can always have a glimpse on this website (see Home Page. Click “Download Brochure”.)
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For the third time in four years the eggheads in the New Manchester Walks set-up (with expert help from the Village’s Velvet boutique hotel) have been victorious at the fiendishly difficult Manchester Cathedral quiz.
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Not only do we offer the most varied and wide-ranging selection of walks and tours anyone has ever put together in Manchester, we try to provide detailed descriptions of each. So if you would like more information, please go to the Walks & Tours section and look under the relevant heading (Politics, People, Places etc)
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Manchester Town Hall has introduced a new “Back of House” tour which will run on three Sundays: 5 Feb, 5 March and 2 April at 1.30pm and 3pm from the Lloyd Street entrance (although more slots might be added if there is sufficient take-up). The tour lasts an hour. Please book through eventbrite to ensure a place. Please note this is not an historical tour and has been devised by the council. all the dates are now sold out apart from Sun 2 Apr at 11.30am. Please click “Continue Reading” to find the link.
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Peterloo was not a left-wing phenomenon. On the contrary…interesting how we have a Tory peer and a right-wing columnist in two right-wing papers decrying an event that helped pave the way for modern-style capitalism. Read the piece New Manchester Walks’s Ed Glinert, has submitted to the I Love Manchester website to answer the recent diatribes in The Times and Daily Mail.
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October and November tours are now on the Calendar. Much of October is being run in association with the Manchester Literature Festival and the Manchester Science Festival. November sees the return of old favourites plus some cracking new tours.
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Huge docks which once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming museums of the modern age. A world famous canal, as deep as Suez, as powerful as the Panama.

In Salford Quays a new city has risen; a city of glass, steel and burnished metal, bold and brilliant.

We explore the new city on the old canal, switching to and from the hi-tech world of today to the days when the Port of Manchester thrived as the 4th largest in the country.
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* Most days during the Festival at 3pm from various locations: “More About Manchester” – Manchester for those who want to know a little more.
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