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Theatre Royal

City curiosities: an alternative tour of Manchester Part One

Gladstone's extra finger, a camp Shakespeare and bang bang bollards... Jonathan Schofield reveals strange details...

Roman Fort Castlefield Mamucium Copy

Short history of Manchester: Britons, Romans, Saxons

Part one: Lindow Man, the very Dark Ages and Mamucium

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Emily Williamson - ecofeminist of Fletcher Moss?

The winning vision for Manchester's newest statue is announced

Bank Of England Turing 50 Note

Alan Turing £50 note design is revealed

Manchester icon commemorated in cash

2020 12 16 Barton 6

Barton-upon-Irwell: the decayed 'wonder' with a ray of hope

How a decayed area of Greater Manchester could become a huge tourist attraction

2020 11 26 Len Grant 9  Afterthebomb

Regeneration Manchester: Len Grant and a city in transition

How a local photographer captured the city's growing pains in words and images

2020 09 25 Manchester Jewish Museum Time Capsule

An astonishing time capsule has been discovered in the walls of Manchester Jewish Museum

Glass jar contains an amazing glimpse into 1870’s Manchester

2020 09 03 Gravestone Cleaned

Thomas Walker: Manchester's anti-slavery campaigner, freedom fighter and forgotten hero

Jonathan Schofield makes a fascinating discovery in a Chorlton churchyard

2020 06 25 Pan African Photo

75 years on: The Manchester Congress that changed Africa

Jonathan Schofield on a lovely building unveiled with a hugely relevant history

2020 06 12 Statues Gandhi

Has Manchester had issues with its statues before?

Jonathan Schofield suggests a solution to the statue issue

2020 05 28 Archi 3 Assize

The story of Manchester architecture: Part three 1850-1894

Jonathan Schofield and the battle of the styles

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Bovril on draft and topless barmaids: What Manchester pubs were like in 1975

Jonathan Schofield is given a pub and bar guide from the past and doesn't want...

2018 06 14 Warth Mills 1

Warth Mills: the Bury WWII internment camp that time forgot

As VE Day approaches, we look back on a compelling wartime tale

2020 04 09 Lloyd George Boris 2

Pandemic PM parallels: Boris Johnson and Lloyd George

Jonathan Schofield on a Manchester connection with a twist in the tail

2020 01 07 Water Polo 1858 Baths 2

Golden Age - when Manchester won major sporting medals...for water polo

Jonathan Schofield stumbles on a century-old Mancunian triumph at Mayfield Baths

2019 11 29 Engels House 2

Manchester demolished: A recent search reveals city planning insanity

Jonathan Schofield looks into how whole streets and beautiful houses have been wiped away

2019 10 24 Chancellors

Chancellors Hotel to close: Naughty University of Manchester

Jonathan Schofield on the University's management of its treasures

2019 08 08 Frank Spy Head And Shoulders

The Olivia Frank story: Manchester’s transgender spy

Andrew Rosthorn and the simply extraordinary life of a Mancunian woman