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Thank you everybody for making “Underground Manchester: The Full Tour on Zoom” so successful. Next tour: Wed 24 Feb, 7pm.

This is an ingenious tour devised by Ed Glinert and fellow guides who have spent far too long below the streets of the city but have come up for air long enough to host this tour. Continue reading →

Spend the weekend exploring Manchester on our unique, entertaining and unbelievably informative tours.
* Sat 27th, Peterloo, 11am. Meet outside Central Library.
* Sat 27th, Angel Meadow, 2.30pm. Meet at Victoria Station wallmap.
* Sun 28th, Strangeways, 12 noon. Meet at Victoria Station wallmap
If you can’t book on Eventbrite, please just turn up!  Continue reading →

Our mission is to open up Manchester and Liverpool history. So this Easter weekend join us on Underground Manchester, Underground Liverpool and Knutsford. Booking on Eventbrite.  Continue reading →

Let’s put this carefully. The idiotic director of Whitworth Art Gallery, Alistair Hudson, has been forced out of his post by Manchester University after getting confused about what an art gallery director is supposed to do and succumbing to the fashionable Corbynesque pastime of Jew-bashing.
To me, Ed Glinert, Britain’s most prolific tour guide, author of the incomparable Compendium guides and more, tourism expert, and creator of Manchester as a tourist destination, it’s quite simple – the gallery’s role is to put on exhibitions, get people inside and educate the public on art. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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.  Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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! Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →