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Events During the Manchester International Festival. The Manchester Slavery Tour, Sat 15 July
Alongside the exciting theatrical productions at the new Factory, there are historical tours of the city. This Saturday, 15 July, at 11am, Ed Glinert will be giving a most illuminating free tour on Manchester’s links with slavery and how the ship on the city coat of arms IS a slave ship, even though you know who told the Guardian it wasn’t.
Meet at Victoria Station wallmap. Please book on Eventbrite.
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Manchester, sorry Salford, well Greater Manchester, is Football City Again!
Congratulations to Manchester City for not only winning the League, but retaining it in one of the tightest campaigns for years. But almost as remarkable is the rise and rise of Salford City, now in the Football League.
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The Manchester Historian: Bob Dylan at 80, walking tour and the story of THAT 1966 gig
Bob Dylan is 80 this May. Join Ed Glinert on his next Manchester music walking tour, on Sunday 23 May at 2.30pm, to recall the remarkable story of THAT Bob Dylan gig at the Free Trade Hall back in May 1966. Booking on Eventbrite.
Now let’s go back in time to the 16th of May 1966. Bob Dylan…
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Our next event is on Zoom, Wednesday 31 March, 5.30pm: The Ghosts of Wuthering Heights
Join Penguin author and cruise ships speaker Ed Glinert on this Zoom version of his magical walk around Haworth to meet some of the most memorable figures in English literature – Heathcliff, Cathy, the wimpishly wet Edgar, the brutish Hareton, the insufferable Pharisee Joseph, the egotistical Lockwood, residents of Gimmerton, home of Wuthering Heights, and setting for the wild, windy, wuthering moors inspired by the real-life Haworth in West Yorkshire.
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There are no tours this weekend 16th/17th March
Hi Manchester walkers,
There are no tours this weekend, Sat 16 March and Sun 17 March.
Both have been moved to Monday 1 April, same times.
Meanwhile, a company that has no connections with us is advertising a John Rylands Library tour for this Sunday evening. We have no idea where this comes from. The library isn’t even open on a Sunday, let alone in the evening. Bizarre!
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WAR IS OVER; WOMEN CAN NOW VOTE!
The day after the November 1918 armistice, the Liberal-coalition government led by David Lloyd George announced the date of the next General Election – the first at which women would be able to vote. Okay, only some women, but after the years of militant suffragette activity, it was a victory of sorts; even if a partial victory. The story of how Manchester women led the campaign for parliamentary reform to allow women to vote a hundred years after Peterloo is one of the most fascinating in English history.
New Manchester Walks are hosting this celebratory walk, Monday 12 November, 2pm from Central Library.
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