Category Archives: Political Manchester
Friedrich Engels’ Manchester
Next tour, free to register: Thursday 28 November 2024. (Engels’ 204th birthday) Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, … Continue reading
Formidable Women of Manchester
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: at the Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square, tbc. Booking: These women and more… * Annie Horniman, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company. * Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic … Continue reading
Left-Wing Manchester – From German Fred to Red Ed
Next tours: This tour has now been subsumed into the Marx & Engels, Pankhursts and Peterloo tours. Bring: A copy of Clause IV. More apt than Mao’s Little Red Book. How apt that the People’s History museum is located in … Continue reading
Political Villains of Manchester
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street, time tbc. There have been some bad people in charge of Manchester and Salford over the years – and you, the good people of the twin cities, have been bossed … Continue reading
Political Heroes of Manchester
Next walk: No dates yet. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. You want heroes? Heroes that transcend party politicking and partisanship? Difficult one. Maybe Richard Cobden, Friedrich Engels, Wiliam Gladstone, Sylvia Pankhurst and Paul Robeson. Them and the usual crowd … Continue reading
Churchill vs. Mosley
Next tours. No public dates. Meet: tbc. One was a maverick who served time in jail; the other was the Labour Party’s greatest hope for socialism. One deployed poison gas against the Iraqis; the other was supported by Nye Bevan, architect … Continue reading
Tory Manchester
Next tour: Maybe to kick-off the 2023 Tory conference in Manchester. Meet: Booking: George the Chancellor said on Wednesday 3 December 2014: “Our ambition is to build a northern powerhouse as a complement to the strength of our … Continue reading
Suffragette City/The Pankhursts
Next Tour: Sunday 13 October 2024, 1pm. Meet: Outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. * This tour takes place on the anniversary of the Suffragettes disrupting the Liberal opposition’s rally at the … Continue reading
Manchester and Slavery
Next tour: Friday 18 October 2024 (International Anti-Slavery Day) Starts: 11am from Victoria Station wallmap. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Manchester has hit the news big style! Simon Hattenstone in the the Guardian … Continue reading
