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This tour is the big one for anybody new to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts you have reached before.

“Welcome to Manchester” is the ideal walk – a taster, a teaser, a trip through town on a timeless tourist trail.

It’s a best of everything, taking in the old and the new, the ancient and the artful, the glamorous and the glorious.

* The tour has been devised by official Manchester tour guide Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium and the forthcoming Manchester Encyclopaedia. Continue reading →

Ed Glinert is delivering a talk on the Town Hall Ford Madox Brown Murals on Tuesday 10 July 5.30pm at Manchester Central Library. 

This is a very rare opportunity to have the paintings explained by Manchester’s most prolific tour guide, who has spent an eternity studying the paintings, while the Town Hall is shut. Continue reading →

I know we live in strange times, and are surrounded by lots of unexplained phenomena, like how anyone thought Liz Truss should be leader of the Tory party and PM, and why Chelsea or anyone would appoint Frank Lampard as manager, but some of the stuff I’ve had to endure this week has been strange even by the usual odd guiding standards. On Wednesday some 16 people booked for the Secret History tour. Two turned up. Continue reading →

If football is, as many are alleging, “coming home”, where is it coming home to? It can’t be Wembley Stadium; not the new Wembley, that concrete monstrosity which has replaced the 1966 World Cup winning stadium and Owen Williams’ beautiful twin towers, unnecessarily demolished. It can’t be any individual club ground. No, the only place I can think of that is the true home of football is the place where the Football Association, the world’s first such body in the modern era, was founded: the Freemason’s Tavern on Long Acre, Covent Garden, London (now the Connaught Rooms). It was there… Continue reading →

Well, we knew it would happen one day. The world is gradually unlocking and we at New Manchester Walks are in the forefront of a return to tourism, history, guiding. We’re also thinking of your safety, so masks are welcome.

Coming up: Ancoats, Angel Meadow, Jewish, Music, Northern Quarter, Peterloo, Secret History, the Smiths, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways and so much more. Continue reading →

This is the official expert entertaining introduction to the city, an in-depth, original and eye-opening tour devised by Manchester’s most prolific tour guide and energetic historian, Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium and compiler of the Manchester Encyclopaedia. Continue reading →

* Tour: Sat 1 July 2023, 10.30am.
* Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square.
It is now just over a hundred and three years (1 December 1919) since a woman entered the British Parliament for the first time. American socialite Nancy Astor won a by-election for the Unionists in Plymouth Sutton, ironically replacing her husband, Waldorf Astor, who had just been ennobled. Continue reading →

Let’s rename Mosley Street Pankhurst Street
A campaign launched by Ed Glinert
Talk at the Portico Library, Tuesday 11 July, 6pm.
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Statues of the not so great and good have been toppled. Public halls renamed. Street names have been altered – but not in Manchester.

We’re behind, despite our two hundred-plus years of radical activity. And yet we have the obvious Manchester campaign within this topic to get behind –removing all signs of the horrendous Mosley family and replacing them in honour of our greatest local family – the Pankhursts. Continue reading →

We at New Manchester Walks have been honoured to have taken so many people around the city on the trail of Ian Curtis’s Manchester which we have been running during the Art Gallery’s summer Joy Division exhibition: “True Faith” (in collaboration with the Gallery).

The exhibition, which runs from 30 June-3 September, is being curated by Jon Savage with whom New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert worked on Mojo magazine in the 1990s.

Next dates for tours, starting at the Art Gallery entrance:
* Thu 24 August, 5.30pm.
Please book with eventbrite by pressing “Continue Reading” and following the link. Continue reading →

* Sunday 8 July, Engels & Marx in Manchester.
* Meet: St Ann’s Church, 2pm.

Comrades! Follow in the footsteps of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, the men who created a political philosophy that dominated half the world during the 20th century. 

This tour, hugely entertaining, informative and intriguing, has been devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s The Manchester Compendium and many other tomes published by the cream of British publishers, who has been hacking away at the coal-face of local politics for 35 years, including a stint at the heart of one of the most sinister Trotskyite cells Hulme ever witnessed. Continue reading →