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150th ANNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST WOMAN TO VOTE SHOCK: TOUR SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER
On 26 November 1867 something strange happened. A woman, Lily Maxwell, voted in the by-election at Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. She cast her vote for Jacob Bright, the Liberal. He won. her vote was then deemed illegal.
How did she get to vote, given it was then illegal for women to vote in parliamentary elections?
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How To Attend Our Walks, Tours, Talks, Cruises
We have a new system in place for the autumn and winter and details of our walks, tours, talks and cruises are on-line only.
To find out what’s on and when, please go to our Calendar or you can head to our Walks & Tours tab
PLEASE PLEASE make sure you check the website a day in advance in case of unavoidable late changes.
Read on for further information and for whether or not you need to book to go on our walks and tours.
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You, the Public, Love our Tours!
“SUE was fabulous – professional, friendly and entertaining. She made the Town Hall come to life and her knowledge was endless.”
“Today was fantastic!!! STEVE was the perfect guide, so knowledgable!”
“The tour was entitled Formidable Women of Manchester led by the also formidable JOHN ALKER who truly brought the subject to life…”
“Our tour was led by the brilliant ED GLINERT who managed to re-enforce our love and pride in Manchester.”
Northern Powerhouse
Manchester was the Northern Powerhouse long before the political marketing men thought of the concept. For here the factory system was created, Britain’s first canal was cut through, the world’s first passenger railway line opened, the greatest of all luxury cars was invented, the first computer was invented and graphene, the thinnest of all materials, …
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THIS WEEK: MON 11 JUNE…
Many thanks to the histories Festival for organising a wonderful series of events with the theme of protest and democracy this second weekend of June, and now it’s back to tours of a different hue. On Wednesday 13 June Steve Bourne will take you around John Rylands Library (1pm, St Ann’s Church), followed by the Chetham’s/Cathedral double-header at (1.45pm, Victoria Station wallmap). In the evening is our regular and barely believable “Secret History of Manchester”, the tour that has proved such a winner (5.30pm, Visitor Centre).
The following day, Thursday, John Alker will be outlining “Manchester’s 10 Best buildings, a new tour in his own inimitable style (1.30pm, Visitor Centre).
Steve Bourne is back on Friday to find “The Lost Rivers of Manchester” (Victoria Station wallmap, 5.30pm). We can’t do the Bomb walk this year. On Saturday 16th Steve will be exploring the Grand Canals west (city centre through to Castlefield and beyond, 6pm from Malmaison). His “Welcome to Manchester” tour is at 2pm from the Visitor Centre.
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Welcome to the Northern Powerhouse!
Manchester has become “the most edgy city in England. It’s the go-to, must-have, can’t-leave-out city in Britain today.” Those are not New Manchester Walks’s words but a quote from
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It woz the Russians (Part 87)
We do do a Russian Manchester tour but we want to put in an early plug for our Russian London all-day extravaganza: “Spies, Saboteurs, Soviets and Samovars”.
In condemning Jeremy Corbyn for being ambiguous and vague about the Russian Salisbury poisoning scandal no one seems to have mentioned the obvious reason for his reticence to criticise. One of his predecessors as Labour Party leader – Hugh Gaitskell – was possibly poisoned by the Russians at their embassy in 1962 as “punishment” for hounding communists out of the Labour Party.
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PRE-RAPHAELITE WOMEN OF THE ART GALLERY TOURS
See the Nymphs (and a host of Pre-Raphaelite-era women) on our “Pre-Raphaelite Women of Manchester Art Gallery” tours. Regular dates, Thursday evenings at 5.30pm. Please book with eventbrite.
They dazed and dazzled. They starred and shone. They glowed and gleamed through the canvas and the frames. They were the most mysterious and mesmerising women in Victorian Britain. They were amongst the most feted women of the 19th century, captured for all time in intensely saturated luminous colour by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and their circle, but their names are still barely known to the public: Jane Burden, Elizabeth Siddal, Emma Watkins, Alexa Wilding…
They were the Pre-Raphaelite women featured in some of the most important British paintings ever created including Autumn Leaves, Astarte Syriaca, Work, The Light of the World and The Hireling Shepherd which live in Manchester Art Gallery.
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News from recent tours: Please join us next time…
The big opening of HOME, the city’s exciting new cultural centre, home now to Cornerhouse and the Library Theatre, saw us launch our new Manchester music tour…
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SPRING & SUMMER 2018 PROGRAMME out now, read here
Click here to see the New Manchester Walks spring and summer 2018 programme, in chronological order.
All the usual favourites – the Pankhursts, Salford Quays, Peterloo, the historic Canal Cruise, Ancoats, Hacienda-era music – plus the return for now of the Underground; a different Underground, wittier and wiser.
Soon available in leaflet form on the website and in your hand.
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