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Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian, Penguin author, a Penguin Classics editor, Arts Society lecturer, cruises ships speaker, who has completed more than 5,500 Manchester tours, on a trio of fascinating, eye-opening literary tours set in Manchester during this autumn 2024’s Literature Festival, including tours on Charles Dickens, Anthony Burgess and Elizabeth Gaskell. Continue reading →

Now that the old Corrie set is staying open until 2016 we’re looking for tour operators and coach companies to complement a visit to the old Coronation Street set with a Corrie locations coach tour or walking tour with New Manchester Walks’s Corrie expert Ed Glinert (pictured left with Mary and Norris). What a great addition to any Manchester visit! Continue reading →

The city hosts and holds a thousand treasures: glorious buildings, priceless artefacts, unforgettable stories. We’ve picked out some of the greatest for a remarkable new tour.

• First run: Tuesday 11 October 2016 at 1.30pm from the Visitor Centre. Continue reading →

This October, as every October, the Manchester Literature Festival is taking place, so we at New Manchester Walks are hosting our annual FREE literary tours. These tours are led by much-published author Ed Glinert, a Penguin Classics editor:

* Charles Dickens’ Manchester, Wednesday 18 October, 11am from the Queen Victoria statue in Piccadilly Gardens.
* Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester, Thursday 26 October, 11am from St Ann’s Church. The tour includes a visit to the Portico Library, where William Gaskell, Elizabeth’s husband, was chairman for 35 years in the mid-19th century, and after a stroll around town visiting Gaskellian haunts, a bus ride to Chorlton-on-Medlock to explore Dover Street, where the Gaskells first lived when they married in 1832, ending up natch at the Elizabeth Gaskell House. Continue reading →

Due to what the met office call a weather situation we had to move our much-anticipated Hebden Bridge & Heptonstall tour, which was supposed to take place on Tuesday 25 August, to Wednesday 30 September, 12 noon start from Hebden Bridge station. Continue reading →

Ed Glinert will be giving a talk at the Portico Library in the evening of Thursday the 28th of October to mark the 200th anniversary of Thomas de Quincey’s “Confessions of An English Opium-Eater, the first major work of English literature to feature Manchester at length. Continue reading →

Today is the day in 1819 when sabre-wielding troops charged 60,000 Mancunians at a rally in St Peter’s Field called to lower the price of bread and demand the vote. More than a dozen people were killed and some 650 injured.

Join Ed Glinert on an expert TOUR relating the entire Peterloo story starting at 2.30pm from Central Library, St Peter’s Square.

The first few decades of the 19th century, enshrined in public imagination as the elegant age of the Regency, were a time of severe political repression in England. The Tory government, led by Lord Liverpool, feared that the kind of revolutionary activity recently witnessed in France would break out in England – probably in Manchester, where social conditions were so desperate – and decided to stamp out all dissent and free speech.

The government had been at war with France, which saw Wellington triumph over Napoleon’s forces at Waterloo in 1815.

But as Paul Foot once wrote, the British government was also waging war against its own people. Continue reading →

We have the most extensive range of tours of any walks organisation in the country, covering the city of Manchester in incredible detail, but even going as far as Knutsford, Alderley Edge, Wigan and Liverpool in our enthusiasm to deliver entertaining and exhilarating tours.

Please see the Calendar page on this website to discover what we do day by day.

For now we do a daily “Welcome to Manchester” at 1.30pm from the Visitor Centre in Piccadilly Gardens, but practically every day there’s a tour from our vast repertoire on … Continue reading →