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Walks During Manchester International Festival (MIF) 2015
* 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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BIG PLUG IN THE MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS FOR NEW MANCHESTER WALKS
Last Saturday, 18 March, the Manchester Evening News ran a 2-page special, featuring our Ed Glinert, linked with the recent Sunday night TV programme SS GB, on the Nazis’ plans for Manchester and the horrific possibility, a rational fear during the War, of an SS GB Manchester.
Our next walk on the subject is on Saturday 20 May, 1.30pm at Victoria Station wallmap.
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Manchester Town Hall A-Z
A 26-part series on Manchester’s greatest building, to advertise our tour, starting now…
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And the winner is the John Rylands Library…
It’s little surprise that the John Rylands Library won the Manchester Large Visitor Attraction of the Year title at the city’s latest annual tourism awards…
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Historical talks at Gorton Monastery with Ed Glinert
Talks on the Pankhursts, Religious Manchester, Peterloo…at Gorton Monastery
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TOWN HALL PROBLEMS WED 29 NOVEMBER: SOLVED!
After a week’s worth of pleading, posturing and postulating we have at last found an ingenious solution for the two messed up tours of Wed 29 November, the Pre-Raphaelites & Murals tour that morning and the regular Town Hall tour that afternoon.
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October Tours Are Here!
**URGENT**The Pankhurst walk is on Saturday 10, not Thursday 8
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Manchester, the Mile-High City
As Student Castle, the 358-foot new tower in Little Ireland opens, it’s worth reflecting on Manchester’s relationship with the tower block…the skyscraper…the cloudbuster.
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Alf Morris R. I. P.
Alf Morris was that rarity in a politician…
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THIS WEEK IS PETERLOO WEEK. GUIDED TOUR SATURDAY
Ed Glinert, who has worked with the legendary campaigning journalist, Paul Foot, and Mike Leigh, director of the soon-to-be-realised film, Peterloo, will be leading a tour this Saturday at 2pm from Central Library: “In Search of the Peterloo Memorial”.
There are a thousand Peterloo stories. These will be going into Glinert’s forthcoming Manchester Encyclopaedia and featured at length on this website in 2019, the year of Peterloo 200. Here’s one:
Lord Castlereagh, the late 18th century Tory politician involved in the subjugation of the 1798 Irish rebellion which brought Ireland under British rule, was by 1819 foreign secretary and leader of the House of Commons. He was vilified by the poet Shelley in the Peterloo poem The Mask of Anarchy in the opening line: “I met Murder on the way/He had a mask like Castlereagh”.
A few years later the public, killed and injured by Castlereagh’s soldiers, got revenge of sorts…
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