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manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk 1 2 www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk Welcome to the What’s On third Manchester Histories Festival For a full searchable calendar, HIGHLIGHTS 2 please visit the MHF website CELEBRATION DAY 4 BELLE VUE: www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk SHOWGROUND OF THE WORLD 5 JOIN IN 6 Manchester Histories Festival is for Zoological Gardens; investigate the forgotten lives FAMILY FUN 9 people who like history and people of the Bradford pit miners in a new creative exhibition; MANCHESTER ENTERTAINS 10 or recount musical tales in an oral histories project EXHIBITIONS 12 who think they don’t. about ’s Strawberry Studios. BEHIND THE SCENES 13 I’m delighted to be introducing Manchester Histories There are many fascinating talks, tours, and Festival 2014. exhibitions revealing new places, subjects and TALKS 16 people, or if you want to be more active, contribute WALKS & TOURS 21 With over 150 events and unique activities, we hope to a panel discussion about Peterloo, play a digital VENUES 27 you join us over the ten days to discuss, discover music game or join in a handling session at one of and enjoy interests and passions for Greater the venues. A DAY BY DAY GUIDE TO WHAT’S Manchester’s past. ON DURING MHF 2014 28 Whether you want to engage in serious debate, VISITING MANCHESTER 30 MHF aims to challenge and inspire you to think laugh at comedians or make a gingerbread bee about your own links with our past and your active, with your child, there’s something for everyone. INFORMATION 31 role in making tomorrow’s histories. Our histories PARTNERS AND are made each day in every choice we make. I would also like to extend a big thank you to all our CONTRIBUTERS 32 We also hope you discover more about both returning and new partners, sponsors, supporters, ’s popular histories and volunteers and audiences without whom the festival also those that are less well known. would not be possible. We are thrilled that you are involved. Explore and share favourite memories during this year’s Showground of the World, our project We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating celebrating the hidden stories from Belle Vue our remarkable past.

Claire Turner, Festival Director

Count Basie Orchestra at Belle Vue Image courtesy of Sefton Samuels

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With something for everyone, here are some Highlights highlights that you might enjoy over the ten days

Manchester: a personal history Strawberry Studios Stockport Belle Vue: Showground of 6.30pm, Tues 25 March Various times, 22, 24, 25, 27 & 29 March the World Exhibition People’s History Museum Various Venues £7 (£5) FREE 11.00am – 6.00pm, Fri 21 – Sun 30 March (late night Thurs 27 until 8pm) Come and hear Michael Wood, Manchester’s Contribute to Stockport’s hidden musical histories by favourite historian, TV presenter and Professor sharing your own stories about the often overlooked 33 Dale Street, M1 2HE of Public History at the University of Manchester, Strawberry Studios at these oral history interviewing FREE reflect on the history of Manchester and its sessions. Founded in Stockport in 1968, the recording MHF and the National Fairground Archive people using his own family history in this highly studio was used by major artists including , Joy bring you a unique exhibition celebrating personalised talk. Originally from , Division, , The Smiths and Paul McCartney. the heady days of Belle Vue Zoological Michael has made Gardens. Attracting 2 million visitors a For more information on times, venues well over a hundred and to book your interview slot, year, and larger than Disneyland, people documentary films. flocked to the Gorton site for the zoo, please email [email protected] circus, fair, speedway, dancing, boxing, Booking is wrestling, fireworks and music for over essential at http:// 140 years. You’ll also be able to share your mhfmichaelwood. tales, listen to live music, be entertained eventbrite.co.uk or by school performances and dance to the 0161 838 9190 tunes of an original Belle Vue DJ. To find out the full daily events programme, please visit the MHF website

Manchester Central Library Tours Thank You 10.00am & 2.00pm, 21 – 29 March 5.00pm – 11.00pm, Fri 21 – Fri 28 March Round the Football (excluding 23 March) The Quays – Greater Manchester’s Waterfront Manchester Central Library FREE League We Go FREE A spectacular two-mile laser beam artwork will light 12.00pm & 3.00pm, Sun 30 March Join Archives+ for a guided tour of the beautiful up the night skies across Manchester, Trafford and newly opened Central Library. Originally opened in Salford pulsing a ‘thank you’ tribute in morse code FREE with £1 Museum visitor guide 1934 and now refurbished to celebrate many of its to Alan Turing, Manchester icon and the father of Take a closer Manchester specific look at the original features, the tour will also focus on the new computer science. Created by artist Craig Morrison Museum’s Game Changers exhibition tracing Archives+ collections. the laser is accompanied by a beautiful neon the local personalities and key events of Booking is essential, as places are limited artwork of Turing’s epitaph that he wrote before the 125 years of the world’s original football http://bit.ly/1cpD5kn his death. league. Formed in Manchester at a meeting in 1888, the exhibition features the changes in local teams including Oldham Athletic and Bury, and includes never before seen personal mementoes from George Best.

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Saturday 29 March Celebration Day 11.00am – 4.00pm Belle Vue: & Friends Meeting House Showground of the World

MHF’s Celebration Day provides a focus At MHF, we aim to uncover the hidden histories of Greater Manchester. For MHF 2014, for the festival bringing together histories we explore the forgotten tales of Belle Vue Zoological Gardens and its importance to and heritage groups from across Greater the people of Manchester who worked there and its millions of visitors from across Manchester and providing a wide range the country. of activities to entertain, inform, In addition to the exhibition we mentioned in the Highlights, there are other events for you to join in. We’ll challenge and engage all ages. also be recording your stories at events too. Come and take part and help us to reveal and recreate the wonder and magic that was Belle Vue. Nearly 90 exhibitors will be present in Manchester Town Hall including John Rylands Library, English Heritage, Community Arts North West’s Congolese Heritage Project, Salford Heritage Services, Across the road in the Friends Meeting House, a range Belle Vue Lorenzo Lawrence the elephant keeper and the Railway & Canal Historical Society, Middleton of FREE talks are available including Robert Poole’s World’s first Speedway Manager Alice Hart. Heritage & Conservation Group and the Rochdale illustration of Shelley’s Mask of Anarchy, or Stephen Roadshow Booking is essential through the MHF website or Pioneers Museum. Kelly and Judith Jones’s oral history exploration of 11.00am – 4.30pm, 0161 306 1982 the history of Granada TV. Alternatively meet the Highlights include Dave Haslam’s interview Sun 23 March real Sherlock Holmes, Manchester’s Detective with Manchester musician Barry Adamson, a Jerome Caminada with Angela Buckley or explore heritage bus from Greater FREE the heroes of Manchester with Dr Max Jones. Belle Vue of Transport on Albert Square, film screenings A full day suitable for families from North West Film Archive, a Belle Vue themed For a full calendar of Celebration Day events and celebrating all things Belle Digital Map historical game you can play with The Larks, times and to book your place on talks, please visit Vue. Find out more from the Fri 21 – Sun 30 March and the finale of the Big Digital Project that will www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk or call the experts, bring down your own Online light up Albert Square in the early evening. MHF office on 0161 306 1982. memorabilia for recording on FREE our map, watch speedway Do you have an object from Belle Vue that triggers demonstrations, join in the special memories for you? Can you help us to identify craft sessions, preserve your memories in a where personal items from Belle Vue have gone recorded interview, or listen to a brass band. to? We need your help to create an online record of For full details of the day’s events, visit the MHF objects, memories and tales from Belle Vue that can website or call 0161 306 1982. be preserved and enjoyed by future generations. To find out how to get involved visit the MHF website and click on the Get Involved section. Belle Vue Walking Tour 10.30am & 2.00pm, Sun 23 & Sun 30 March Gorton FREE A new walking tour with Blue Badge Guide Emma Fox and local performers from Gorton and MMU’s School of Theatre. Meet the characters that brought Belle Vue alive including

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Take an active role in exploring Manchester’s Join In past by taking part in these events

Horsfall Histonauts 3: The Manchester Rising of 1817 Peterloo 2019: A Discussion 11.00am – 5.00pm weekends & 12.00pm – 6.00pm The Manchester Music Edition Sat 22 & Sat 29 March 6.30pm – 8.00pm, Wed 26 March g weekdays, exc. Thurs until 8.00pm, Venue TBC People’s History Museum 21 – 30 March Sat 22 – Fri 28 March FREE FREE Online The Space FREE Help to solve the mystery of the march of the Join MHF and a panel including DJ and author Partnership/co-brandin FREE Manchester ‘Blanketeers’ to London in 1817 and Dave Haslam and Peterloo expert Dr Robert Poole

Join this digital scavenger hunt mapping 1.6 A living, making and trading room created by young the uprising that followed by unearthing and to discuss how Manchester should commemorate

Manchester’s music heritage in partnership with one people from 42nd Street working with residents transcribing new evidence. and remember the Peterloo massacre leading up Manchester Music Map. Use social media and your from the local Victoria Square and award winning to the 200th anniversary in 2019.

mobile to tackle a fun task each day helping to add Booking is essential through the MHF website or Section Grizedale Arts, exploring and reinterpreting new bands, videos and music memories to the Map. 0161 306 1982 Booking is advised at the MHF 2014 website Thomas Horsfall’s Model Rooms that he created in Full training provided. or 0161 306 1982 Manchester Art Museum in the late 18th century. Register to participate and receive the rules at http://ow.ly/sXSGQ, or Tweet @McrMusicMap Soapbox Sunday 2.00pm – 3.00pm, Sun 23 March People’s History Museum FREE Got a bee in your bonnet? Something to shout about? Come and have your say in a 5 minute rant followed by a discussion about issues that have been in the Manchester news.

Manchester Heroes: should the City remember its heroes? 6.30pm – 8.00pm, Mon 24 March National Football Museum FREE Have your say alongside a panel from the world of sport, development and broadcasting including John Amaechi, Tom Bloxham and Michael Wood, should Tag the Library! Manchester remember its heroes? Is it 11.00am – 4.00pm, Fri 21 March important for today’s children to know about The John Rylands Library Manchester’s historical heroes? And, if so, FREE how should we go about remembering them? Ever liked something on Facebook? Ever tagged a Booking is advised at photo? Come and show the Library what it means to the MHF 2014 website you by physically tagging any area with a real label, or 0161 306 1982 and look at the space in a new way.

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Manchester & Its Refugees: Past & Present Family Fun 4.00pm – 7.00pm, Fri 28 March Manchester Friends’ Meeting House FREE Teachers are invited to take part in this Something for all the family workshop exploring how Manchester Quakers The Little People’s History assisted Museum Beeing Special Jewish 11.00am – 12.00pm, Sat 22 March refugees in People’s History Museum the 1930s and 40s, and how to integrate historical £1 per child, Adults FREE refugee and conflict studies into the creative arts. Manchester’s Meet Little Bee, the Manchester bee who wants to Booking is essential at [email protected] Football Memories be different in this fun, interactive story session with puppets, song, dance and craft activities. 2.00pm, Wed 26 & Sat 29 March Follow Little Bee’s adventures to find out how National Football Museum he becomes the hero of Victorian Manchester. FREE Suitable for under 5s and their grown ups. Saturday Spectacular Share and record your memories of playing and Worktown to Booking is advised on 0161 838 9190 Family Fun Day watching football in Manchester. MMU and the Cottonopolis 12.00pm – 4.00pm, Sat 22 March Museum would like to hear your stories. Former 10.00am – 4.00pm, Sat 29 March Manchester Central Library players from the City’s two biggest clubs will also University of Bolton FREE share their tales at each session. FREE but participants must pay for their Manchester Big Saturday The newly opened Archives+ is holding a Saturday own travel 11.00am – 4.00pm, Sat 22 March Spectacular of family fun activities including crafts, Join the UoB and award winning cartoonist Manchester Museum storytelling and a chance to see their wonderful new Tony Husband (Private Eye, The Times) and FREE exhibition about Manchester. Have a go at designing become a mass observer on this day long Discover the fascinating stories behind the objects your own family crest or make gingerbread bees workshop inspired by the Mass Observation in Manchester Museum including Maharajah the to take away. For the full programme visit the MHF Worktown Archive of working life in Bolton elephant who walked from Edinburgh to Belle Vue, 2014 website. from the 1930s. the Manchester moth that changed its colouring Manchester and Germany: Booking is essential by email to Bethan due to pollution as well as many other secrets. Atkins at [email protected] A Friendship 6.30pm – 8.00pm, Thurs 27 March University Place, Theatre B FREE If Revolution Could Speak… Join a panel invited by MHF and the University of Belle Vue Dance & Drama Manchester to discuss the little known special 2.00 – 4.00pm, Sat 29 March 1.00pm – 3.00pm, Wednesday 26 March relationship Manchester and Germany shared Royal Exchange Theatre 33 Dale Street, Manchester pre-World War One. What do you do when your FREE FREE admired and emulated friend becomes your enemy? Unleash your inner playwright in this interactive Pupils from St Richard’s RC Primary School Booking is advised workshop, led by the Royal Exchange’s Young present a colourful history of dance and life through the Company, using creative writing to explore protest at Belle Vue Zoological Gardens as part of the MHF website or and social change in Manchester’s histories. Belle Vue: Showground of the World exhibition’s 0161 306 1982 Booking is essential on 0161 833 9833 event programme.

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Manchester Entertains Laugh, learn and enjoy these entertaining events

Cottonopolis The Boys in Blue: Peterloo: Soldiers on the Rampage 7.00pm, Sun 23 March Manchester City FC 7.30pm, Thurs 27 March The Big Digital Project Working Class Movement Library The Mechanics Institute 6.30pm, Sat 29 March £7.50 on Film £8 (£6) Albert Square The Bailey Sisters present a concert-history of the 6.20pm, Thurs 27 March A musical commemoration by the Free Radicals, FREE Manchester cotton trade in stories and songs inspired in words and song, of 16th August 1819’s Peterloo Join Let’s Go Global for the finale of The Big £8, (£6) by the Working Class Movement Library collection. Massacre where 60,000 peaceful protesters were Digital Project and the hidden stories and Booking is advised at WCML or 0161 736 3601 Football historian charged, some killed and many injured, by the histories of Greater Manchester in this Gary James curates Yeoman Cavalry. large-scale, live sound & light event about an evening of films Booking is advised on [email protected] the places where people live. about the history of or 07760 430577 NW Film Archive Film Screenings Manchester City FC 12.00pm, 3.00pm and 4.00pm, selected from footage Mon 24 – Saturday 29 March preserved at the North Manchester Central Library West Film Archive. Forgotten Fields Film Show FREE Booking is advised 6.00pm – 9.00pm, Fri 28 March Drop-in and watch a fantastic selection of short at 0161 200 1500 The Friends Meeting House films showing Manchester in days gone by from the 0161 274 333 FREE North West Film Archive. Film showings last no more Foodies will enjoy dropping in to these fascinating than 20 minutes. films that tell of Greater Manchester’s unique and Bright Club Manchester: MHF Special fascinating food heritage researched by The Kindling 7.30pm, Thurs 27 March Trust, featuring growers and traders of Ashton Subversive Histories A City Speaks film screening Nexus Art Café and Chat Moss and heritage potato crops at £4 on the door . 7.30pm, Sat 29 March 6.00pm, Tues 25 March Three Minute Theatre Manchester Central Library Bright Club, the thinking person’s variety night! £5, (£3) FREE A special edition for MHF, BCM presents a one-off Barry Adamson histories themed show in which historians become Radical singer songwriter Claire Mooney and A City Speaks is Manchester’s civic film from 1947 comedians for one night only. 3.00pm, Sat 29 March political poet Dave Puller provide an evening of giving the chance to view the sights and sounds of Manchester Town Hall thought provoking entertainment – expect politics Manchester of over 60 years ago from grim slum FREE and passion. conditions of Hulme to leafy . RUINED: Short Stories from 25 years after the release of his concept album Booking advised on 0161 834 4517 Moss Side Story, Barry Adamson joins Dave Haslam Long Lost Places and Manchester District Music Archive to discuss From Cheetham Hill to Cheadle 7.30pm, Thurs 27 March growing up in Moss Side and how it inspired his Gardening 7.30pm – 9.30pm, Wed 26 – Thurs 27 March Blackwell’s Bookshop work. He has since contributed to the soundtracks FREE for films Natural Born Killers and Gas Food Lodging. Re-enactment £8 Local authors excavate uncanny tales from the Booking is advised at the MHF 2014 website or 1.00pm – 4.00pm, Sun 30 March Manchester’s Jewish Theatre Company performs ruins of Manchester’s lost buildings in this literary on 0161 306 1982 Ordsall Hall evening. Expect short fiction told with humour, FREE Hymie Gouldman’s classic play From Cheetham Hill to Cheadle charting Manchester’s Jewish pathos and a touch of the uncanny. Step back 500 years into Ordsall Hall’s Tudor community from the late 1880’s to the 1960’s. Booking is advised at MHF 2014 website or heyday meeting costumed gardeners and have Booking recommended on 0161 834 9879 0161 274 3331 a go at planting and gardening ‘Tudor style’.

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St James’ and Didsbury Park Delve deeper into histories and heritage as you get behind Remembering Bradford Pit Conservation Area the scenes at venues and organisations Please check with the venue for opening 10.00am – 5.00pm, Sat 22 – Sun 30 March times, Fri 21 – Sun 30 March The Old Parsonage Beswick Library FREE £3 on the door Roman Object Handling Recent Acquisitions: Discover the stories and histories of the people and 12.00pm – 1.00pm, Sat 22 March Bradford Pit had a huge effect on places in St James’ and Disbury Park Conservation Harry Thorneycroft’s Clock Manchester Museum Manchester’s industrial heritage and this Area before World War 1. On Sunday 30th March, St 1.15pm – 2.00pm, Mon 24 March FREE exhibition tells the stories of the pit’s James’ Church will also be open for a graveyard tour. People’s History Museum people and of this forgotten community. Find out more about Roman Manchester in this FREE, but donation accepted object handling session at Manchester Museum. Please check with the venue for opening times Come and find out what the Museum knows Women and the Great War (and what they don’t know) about Manchester Alderman and MP Harry Thorneycroft’s clock, 11.00am – 1.00pm, Sun 23 March a recent addition to their collections. Salford Museum & Art Gallery £6 Discover what the ordinary women of Salford wore Archives+ Special Collections in extraordinary times in this costume presentation by the History Wardrobe about the lives Handling Session and wardrobes of women 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Mon 24 March during WW1. The event Manchester Central Library is linked to the Museum’s FREE LifeTimes exhibition A chance to handle some of the rare and old books Sporting Stockport focusing on WW1. from Manchester Central Library’s special collections. Fri 21 – Sat 29 March Booking is essential at Stockport Heritage Library http://shop. FREE salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk or 0161 778 0800 Celebrate and learn about the sporting talents Working Class Movement and achievements of Stopfordians over the years including lacrosse, rugby, cricket and athletics. Library Open Day Please check with the venue for opening times Sun 23 March Quakers & Refugees Working Class Movement Library 11.00am – 4.00pm, Fri 28 March FREE The Friends Meeting House Browse the Library, its collections, see their FREE Salford’s Lost Workplaces exhibition and hear Discover more about the Quakers’ work with the Bailey Sisters sing songs inspired by the refugees and displaced people before and cotton trade in and around Manchester at after the Second World War in Manchester, WCML’s Open Day. including activity of the Friends’ Ambulance See the venue website for opening times Service and the Friends’ Relief Service. www.wcml.org.uk

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Salford Diocesan Archives North West Film Archive The Incurable Collector: Greater Manchester Police Open Day Handling Session The Sir Harry Page Collection Museum Open Day 12.00pm – 5.00pm Tues 25 March & 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Wed 26 March 6.00pm – 7.00pm, Thurs 27 March 10.30am – 3.30pm, Sat 29 March 10.00am – 5.00pm Thurs 27 March Manchester Central Library MMU Special Collections Greater Manchester Police Museum Salford Diocesan Archives FREE FREE FREE FREE Handle some of the vintage cameras and equipment A unique chance to explore Find out more about the history of policing in Find out more about Manchester’s Roman Catholic that have been used in creating film making over the the unique scrap albums Greater Manchester as the Museum opens its presence since the Tudor times in these Open Days years in Manchester. and common-place books doors for Manchester Histories Festival. at the Archive. collected by Sir Harry Page, former City Treasurer at , Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations mainly compiled by middle Behind the Scenes: class ladies of leisure. Resource Centre Handling Session Building the People’s FREE but booking essential on 0161 247 6107 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Tues 25 March Manchester Central Library History Museum FREE 1.15pm – 2.00pm, Thurs 27 March An unusual opportunity to handle items from the People’s History Museum Steve Cohen Collection. He was a human-rights FREE Toastrack: An Unofficial History lawyer and the Collection contains details of Join Operations Manager Steve Talbot and 6.00pm, Thurs 27 March over 70 of Manchester’s anti-deportation and find out more about PHM’s architecture and Venue to be confirmed immigration campaigns. how it was redeveloped. FREE Discover architecture, fashion and even Voices Manchester butchery at the launch of a new publication 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Sat 29 March Greetings from Manchester: by the Manchester Modernists Society The John Rylands Library following their year of delving into the FREE S Hildesheimer & Co. archives at MMU to find out the story of Talk to participants 1.30pm – 2.30pm, Tues 25 March the Manchester landmark building. MMU Special Collections from The Library’s Booking advised at FREE project Voices http://thetoastrack.wordpress.com Manchester, and Explore a find out how they beautiful explored the collection collections in this of original project to enable Victorian and young Mancunians Edwardian to explore and link greeting cards with the venue. produced by Manchester based publishers S Hildesheimer Greater Manchester County Record & Co. who had Office Handling Session Henry Watson Music Library premises near Victoria Station. 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Fri 28 March Handling Session Manchester Central Library 12.30pm – 1.30pm, Sat 29 March FREE but FREE Manchester Central Library booking FREE essential at A chance to handle historic documents in the Record 0161 247 6107 Office dating back to the 12th Century and find out Chat to specialists from the music library and handle how they survived. archives from its collections.

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A magical array of talks about Manchester’s Talks past and links to the present

John Dalton: Family Life in pre-Victorian Engels & Marx in Manchester The Man and his Manchester Manchester 6.00pm, Mon 24 March 11.00am, Sat 22 March 2.00pm, Sun 23 March £8, (£5) Chetham’s Library £5, (£3) FREE Discover how Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, the two pioneers of communism, formed many of their Join Professor Hannah Barker from the University of John Dalton, the father of modern chemistry, lived ground-breaking ideas in 19th century Manchester. and worked in Manchester from 1792 until his death Manchester to explore the mess of narrow, winding in 1844. This talk will describe his life and work in streets where the town’s inhabitants lived and Booking essential at www.theportico.org.uk or 19th century Manchester. worked in pre-Victorian Central Manchester. 0161 236 6785 Booking essential at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk Booking advised at the MHF website or 0161 306 1982 For the Duration of the War Romans & Dark Age Manchester 6.00pm, Mon 24 March 11.00am – 2.00pm, Sat 22 March The Key Decade: Manchester Central Library Manchester Museum Manchester in the 1840s FREE FREE The Architecture John Marsden from Manchester & Lancashire Family 2.00pm, Sun 23 March This illustrated talk about the Roman origins of the History Society talks about how to find out information of Manchester Manchester Art Gallery pre-industrial settlement of Manchester explores about WW1 soldiers from Greater Manchester. 1.00pm, Sat 22 March £5, (£3) the fascinating history and archaeology of the city. FREE but booking essential at The Portico Library From politics to popular culture, Manchester was www.archivesplus.org/events £8, (£5) arguably never so significant as during the 1840s: Exploring African Medicinal & Ed Glinert, author of The Manchester Chartism, the Anti-Corn League, Engels, Compendium, gives a fascinating insight Marx, Gaskell’s Mary Barton to name a few. Religious Objects in Manchester into the architecture of Manchester. Booking essential at Museum Booking advised at www.theportico.org.uk www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk or 0161 236 6785 2.00pm – 3.00pm, Sat 22 March Manchester Museum FREE This object-orientated Rackets and talk will explore Angel Meadow: African medicinal The Racquets Club and religious Slums and Squalor 3.30pm, Sat 22 March & Thurs 27 March artefacts in 2.00pm, Sat 22 March Manchester Tennis and Racquets Club the Museum’s Manchester Art Gallery £3 inc. refreshments collection and £5, (£3) Listen to this talk on the history of the discuss why and Angel Meadow and the Irk Valley were infamous club and the games of rackets and real how they came in Victorian times: cholera, crime, vice, vermin tennis, and then enjoy a tour of the to be in Manchester. and death are all included in this talk by fascinating club. Elizabeth Sibbering. Booking advised at 0161 834 0616 Booking essential at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk

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Manchester in World War Two Estate and its Place Manchester at War 7.30pm, Tues 25 March in the Making of Manchester 6.00pm, Thurs 27 March East Manchester History and Gaming Centre 7.00pm, Wed 26 March The Portico Library £3 The Towers Business Park £8, (£5) Nearly 700 people were killed in the Manchester £3 on the door in aid of Francis House Ed Glinert explores Manchester at war through Christmas Blitz of 1940. Come and hear the story A talk by local historian Dr Diana Leitch illustrating the 20th century including the First and Second of the event as well as the lesser known flying the importance of the Towers Estate, Didsbury, in World Wars. bomb attack of 1944. the creation of the Manchester Ship Canal and the Booking essential at www.theportico.org.uk or Booking advised at cotton industry. 0161 236 6785 https://mcrmilhist.eventbrite.co.uk

The Manchester Ship Canal Queen Victoria’s Visit to Salford 6.00pm, Tues 25 March Enriqueta Rylands: 2.30pm, Thurs 27 March The Portico Library cultural crossroads Salford Museum and Art Gallery £8, (£5) FREE 4.00pm – 5.00pm, Wed 26 March A fascinating glimpse of Queen Victoria’s progress Sue Grimditch, Manchester and Salford tour The John Rylands Library through Salford during her 1851 visit to the city. guide, explains how the Victorians linked FREE Manchester, a city 35 miles from the sea, with Find out more about the fascinating life of Cuban- FREE but booking essential at 0161 778 0800 the Atlantic Ocean. born Enriqueta Rylands, second wife of John Rylands, Booking essential at www.theportico.org.uk and the brains behind the John Rylands Library. or 0161 236 6785 Booking essential on 0161 306 0555 or at From Body Snatching to [email protected] Computer Simulation Concerts for the People: 4.30pm – 6.00pm, Thurs 27 March music education and public University Place, University of Manchester programmes in Manchester Masterplanning Mobility: From Little Ireland to Chinatown: FREE 6.30pm – 8.30pm, Thurs 27 March Mancunian methods mapping diversity in Manchester Professor Emeritus Hallé St Peters, Ancoats 6.30pm, Tues 25 March 6.00pm, Wed 26 March John Pickstone and FREE Professor Anthony Museum of Science and Industry Manchester Central Library A public talk and seminar exploring the Freemont from FREE FREE histories of music education and engagement the University of How has immigration changed the face in Manchester, following a collaborative Join the Newcomen Society and Dr Richard Brook Manchester discuss of Manchester? This talk explores population project between the University of Manchester, (MMU) for this talk on post-war transport planning the history of change in the city through digital mapping, archive Royal Northern College of Music, the Hallé in Manchester between 1945 and 1974 from the anatomy teaching collections and emerging urban history research. and Brighter Sound. decline of the tramcar to the Mancunian Way. in Manchester. Booking essential at www.archivesplus.org./events See MHF 2014 website for booking details Booking essential at Booking is essential at or call 0161 306 1982 http://bit.ly/1lyHLyR [email protected] or 0161 306 1661 The Pankhursts: Manchester’s Lancashire to LA: The legacy of Golden Family Belle Vue John Parkinson, Bolton architect 6.00pm, Wed 26 March 6.00pm, Thurs 27 March 7.00pm, Tues 25 March The Portico Library, £8, (£5) Manchester Central Library The Watts Family YHA Castlefield The Pankhursts, Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia, FREE 7.00pm, Thurs 27 March £5 on the door were Manchester’s most celebrated political family. Relive your fond memories of Belle Vue Zoological St James’ Church, Didsbury Researcher and videographer, Jamie Ryan-Ainslie Discover with Ed Glinert how a Manchester family Gardens, opened in 1836 to the public it became £3 on the door highlights the life of his Great Great Grand Uncle helped women to win the vote. one of the country’s premier destinations. Join Dr Diana Leitch to find out about the Watts John Parkinson, a Bolton architect who found fame Booking essential at www.theportico.org.uk or Booking essential at Family who created the great textiles firm of S and J in America. 0161 236 6785 www.archivesplus.org/events Watts, now the Britannia Hotel in Manchester.

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All for Love and Nothing for Reward Forgotten Fields 3.30pm, Sat 29 March Walks & Tours 11.00am, Fri 28 March Manchester Central Library Manchester Central Library FREE FREE Ros Edwards shares the story of Dr Henry Watson John Marsden from Manchester and his music library, a renowned composer and and Lancashire Family History teacher who gifted the contents of his library to Society speaks about the Manchester City Council in 1902. Take a journey into Greater Manchester’s historical past development of burial and Booking is essential at www.archivesplus.org/events cremation in Manchester. with our diverse walks and tours

Vanishing for the Vote Daily 2.00pm, Discover Peace: Manchester Trail 3.00pm – 3.45pm, Woman’s Outlook: FREE Sat 29 March Hidden Manchester/Manchester Seen From famous names to quiet heroes, from the Town A Surprisingly Modern Magazine People’s History Museum FREE but check out https://www.facebook.com/ Hall to the Mines Advisory Group, explore the city FREE but donations welcome ManchesterSeen?fref=ts for booking details 1.00pm – 2.00pm, Sat 29 March and its stories of peace and politics. and times People’s History Museum Dr Jill Liddington provides a Starting point: Front steps, Manchester Town Hall, FREE but donations welcome remarkable insight into the Enjoy this new arts trail created by three Albert Square, M2 5DB events of Census Night 1911 professional photographers who are passionate Natalie Bradbury, writer, researcher and Information and how Manchester people about the hidden sides of the city. Catherine Roberts, discoverpeace Co-ordinator at the Co-operative College, presents evaded participating as this informative talk about the Movement’s Manchester Seen part of the campaign for 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Music in Manchester magazine for women: Woman’s Outlook (1919-1967). women’s suffrage. £7, (£6) Booking essential at Booking essential at http://bit.ly/1fXKrPN Booking essential at http:// www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk or 0161 838 9190 Friday 21 March vanishingforthevote.eventbrite.co.uk Explore Manchester’s 1.15pm – 2.00pm, Radical Manchester: musical legacy from People’s History Museum Gallery Tour the 1960’s via punk and A History of Manchester in FREE but donations welcome Madchester up to the Discover how Manchester’s radical past sent present day. Ten Plants shock-waves through history on this tour of Starting Point: Manchester 11.00 am, Sun 30 March PHM’s main galleries. Visitor Information Centre, Manchester Art Gallery Starting Point: PHM, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Piccadilly Plaza, Portland Street, M1 4BT £5, (£3) M3 3ER Sue McCarthy, Manchester Guided Tours Biologist, garden designer and local tour guide Anne Beswick presents a sideways look at local history that illustrates our links with our larger environment. 1.30pm – 3.15pm, The Castlefield Explorer 2.00pm & 3.30pm (for an hour), £6 on the day University of Manchester Heritage Tours Booking essential at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk John Alker leads FREE but booking essential at a guided walk http://uomheritagetours.eventbrite.co.uk Manchester Drunk ‘n’ Sober through the Roman An opportunity to birthplace and explore the history of the 2.00pm, Sun 30 March industrial centre University of Manchester Manchester Art Gallery of Manchester. through a walking tour £5, (£3) Starting Point: around its significant Mancunians have always known how to have a party. MOSI, Lower Byrom buildings. We’ve also been at the forefront of the Temperance Street, M3 4FP Starting Point: Movement. Torn between two loves: Vimto or John Alker, University of Manchester, Boddingtons? Hear stories of this terrible dilemma. New Manchester Old Quad, Oxford Road, Booking essential at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk Walks M13 9PL

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Saturday 22 March 2.00pm, 2.30pm – 3.15pm, 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Discover Peace: Manchester trail A Victorian Pharmacy The Hidden Histories of Angel Meadow 11.00am – 12.30pm, Manchester in Fiction FREE FREE but booking FREE but booking advised at £6, (£5) on the day From famous names to quiet heroes, from the Town essential at http://tinyurl.com/pb9mpxo Explore a Manchester as portrayed in novels Hall to the Mines Advisory Group, explore the city 0161 778 0800 This walk reveals Angel Meadow’s stories of extreme by writers such as Howard Spring, Livi Michael, and its stories of peace and politics. Delve into the world poverty, hardship, illness and crime, including Robert Blatchford, Mrs Gaskell and Millie Toole. Starting point: Front steps, Manchester Town Hall, of Lark Hill Place’s kindness, philanthropy and co-operation. Starting point: Friends Meeting House, Mount Albert Square, M2 5DB very own Victorian Starting point: Victoria Station tiled wall map, Street, M2 5NS Catherine Roberts, discoverpeace Pharmacist Mr Hamer M3 1AR with his pills and Michael Herbert, Red Flag Walks Morag Rose, The LRM, and Steve Millington potions for from MMU 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Victorian Salford. 1.00pm – 4.00pm, The Great Gentry House Facques Starting point: Bus Tour £6 with free map (£2 for self-guided map). To book Salford Museum and 2.30pm – 4.00pm, Stockport Rocks £15 Booking essential at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk or buy a map visit http://skyliner.bigcartel.com/ Art Gallery, Peel Park, £7, (£6) Booking advised at category/tour Discover the hidden remains of the families that Salford, M5 4WU www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk ran pre-industrial Manchester on this exclusive Instead of blue plaques, Skyliner brings you ‘facques’ Salford Heritage Services Revisit Stockport’s incredible music scene starting coach tour around the gentry houses of Manchester place of interesting facts displayed across the city. with Strawberry Studios, the building where 10cc, including and . Join the tour or do your own self-guided walk. Joy Division, The Smiths and Paul McCartney Starting Point: Slug and Lettuce, Starting point: To be confirmed on booking Sunday 23 March recorded records. Albert Square, M2 5HD Hayley Flynn, Skyliner Starting point: Strawberry Studios, Waterloo Road, Jonathan Spangler & Rosamund 11.00am – 12.30pm, Altrincham at War Stockport, SK1 3BD

Oates, Manchester £7, (£6) Booking advised at 2.00pm – 3.30pm, Jean Bailo, Manchester Guided Tours Metropolitan University www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk Manchester in World War One Join costumed characters in this walk around £7, (£6) Booking advised at Altrincham discovering the role played by its www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk Monday 24 March 1.00pm & 3.30pm (for an hour), inhabitants in the Great War. University of Manchester Heritage Tours Providing a fascinating snapshot of the city in 1914, Starting point: Market Steps, Greenwood Street, 10.00am – 12.00pm, 120 Years Fighting Cancer An opportunity for you to explore the history of hear poignant stories of brave Manchester men and Altrincham, WA14 1RZ in Manchester the University of Manchester on this walking tour women and how WW1 changed our lives forever. FREE but booking advised at www. Jean Bailo, Manchester Guided Tours around its significant buildings. Starting point: Front steps, Manchester Town Hall, historyofcancerresearch.eventbrite.com or Starting Point: University of Manchester, Albert Square, M2 5DB 07818 065117 Old Quad, Oxford Road, M13 9PL Kate Dibble, Manchester Guided Tours 11.00am – 12.30pm, Radical Salford Explore the origins of Manchester’s world-leading 1.30pm – 3.15pm, £6 (£5) on the day cancer fighting reputation. Find out more about Salford’s radical history Starting point: To be confirmed on booking including the Flat Iron Market, vegetarian Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute Salford Quays/ Christians and Salford’s first birth control clinic.

The Old Docks Starting point: Black Lion pub, 65 Chapel Street, 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Old Didsbury £6 on the day Salford, M3 5BZ £5, (£4) on the day Work your way through the Michael Herbert, Red Flag Walks Manchester waterside: the old Discover the fascinating histories of Old Didsbury docks, the banks of the ship buildings and people including the St James’ canal, Centre and 1.30pm – 3.15pm, The Secret History of Manchester and Didsbury Park Conservation Area. Media City. £6 on the day Starting point: The Old Starting point: So you think you know Manchester histories? Parsonage at St James’ Media City Metrolink stop, Uncover the strange and secret histories of the Church, Stenner Lane, M50 2EQ city in this fascinating guided walk. Didsbury, M20 2RQ Sue Grimditch, Starting Point: Manchester Visitor Information Sue Good and Diana New Manchester Walks Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, Portland Street, M1 4BT Leitch, Didsbury Civic Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks Society

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1.30pm – 3.15pm, John Rylands Library and the 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Old Didsbury Friday 28 March Royal Exchange £5, (£4) on the day 2.00pm – 3.00pm, Romans in Ancient Worlds £6 on the day Discover the fascinating histories of Old Didsbury FREE 10.00am – 12.00pm, 120 Years Fighting Cancer in Manchester A guided tour of two of Manchester’s finest buildings and people including the St James’ and Find out more about some of the fascinating FREE but booking advised at buildings, both linked by the city’s most powerful Didsbury Park Conservation Area. finds from Roman Manchester during www.historyofcancerresearch.eventbrite.com industry: cotton. excavations that have taken place in the city. Starting point: The Old Parsonage at St James’ or 07818 065117 Starting Point: John Rylands Library, 150 Church, Stenner Lane, Didsbury, M20 2RQ Starting point: Manchester Museum, Explore the origins of Manchester’s world-leading , M3 3EH University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Sue Good and Diana Leitch, Didsbury Civic Society cancer fighting reputation. Sue Glinert, New Manchester Walks M13 9PL Starting point: To be confirmed on booking 2.30pm – 3.15pm, 101 Ways to Die on Lark Hill Place Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute 1.45pm – 4.00pm, The Histories of Ardwick Green FREE but booking is essential on 0161 778 0800 FREE but booking essential at or http://bit.ly/1iPR77u 11.00am – 1.00pm, Do You Shop at the Co-op? http://bit.ly/1fqaQHI or 0161 277 1000 Take a guided tour in Salford Museum and Art £7, (£6) Booking is advised at Gallery’s Victorian street and discover some of the Ardwick Green, one of Manchester’s most www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk interesting and overlooked districts, is revealed in weird and wonderful ways people met their end in this walking tour. Victorian Salford. From humble beginnings the Cooperative movement now features largely in our lives, hear the story and Starting point: Salford Museum and Art Gallery, Starting point: St Thomas Centre, Ardwick Green follow the threads that bound the founders. North, M12 6FZ Peel Park, Salford, M5 4WU Thursday 27 March Starting point: Victoria Station tiled wall map, Morag Rose, GMCVO M3 1AR Wednesday 26 March 11.00am – 12.30pm, Manchester’s Chinatown Jean Bailo, Manchester Guided Tours £7 (£6) Booking advised at 11.00am – 12.30pm, Innovation: Made in Manchester www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk £7, (£6) Booking is advised at 1.30pm – 3.15pm, Hidden Gems of Manchester Visit a fascinating community in the heart of the city www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk £6 on the day to discover the histories, traditions and culture of Look at changes from the Industrial Revolution to Manchester’s Chinese community. Take in some of Manchester’s hidden gems on this today, including a visit to Fab Lab and the changing tour to Freemason’s Hall, the Portico Library and the Ancoats area. Starting point: Front steps, Manchester Town Hall, Town Hall prison cells. Albert Square, M2 5DB Starting point: Corner of Oldham Street and Great Starting Point: Manchester Visitor Information Kate Dibble, Manchester Guided Tours Ancoats Street, Manchester, M4 Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, Portland Street, M1 4BT Jean Bailo, Manchester Guided Tours Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks 1.30pm – 3.15pm, The Salford Explorer £6 on the day 1.15pm – 2.00pm, Radical Manchester: Take a tour through old Salford, into the heart of the Saturday 29 March People’s History Museum Gallery Tour once smoky city and its many histories. FREE but donations welcome 1.30pm – 3.00pm, Jerome Caminada Starting point: Outside Hanging Ditch wine bar, Tuesday 25 March Discover how Manchester’s radical past sent £7, (£6) Booking advised at corner of Cateaton & Victoria Street, M3 1ST shock-waves through history on this tour of www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk 1.30pm – 3.15pm, Sue Grimditch, New Manchester Walks PHM’s main galleries. Walk the streets of 10 Manchester Inventions Starting Point: PHM, Left Bank, Spinningfields, Manchester’s real life That Shook the World M3 3ER 2.00pm & 4.00pm, (lasting 90 mins), Sherlock Holmes, Jerome £6 on the day Godlee Observatory Caminada, and hear Manchester, birthplace of £5 Booking is essential at 0161 306 4977 or about his cases and 1.30pm – 3.15pm, Jewish Manchester the Industrial Revolution, [email protected] fascinating life story. £6 on the day has been the of many Step back in time in one of Manchester’s Starting point: remarkable scientific and Manchester is the home of Britain’s second biggest marvellous hidden gems at Godlee Observatory, Front steps, Manchester social developments. Jewish community and this talk reveals the impact tour the telescopes and find out about Manchester Town Hall, Albert Starting point: Outside MOSI main entrance, the Jewish community have had on the city. Astronomical Society’s history. Square, M2 5DB Lower Byrom Street, M3 4FP Starting point: Midland Hotel, Peter Street, M60 2DS Starting point: Godlee Observatory, Sackville Emma Fox, Manchester Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks Street Building, M1 3BU Guided Tours

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1.30pm – 3.15pm, Manchester’s Revolutionary 1.30pm – 3.15pm, Manchester’s Music Landmarks Political History, £6 on the day £6 on the day Venues Discover the details of Manchester’s rich, radical The Smiths, Joy Division, the and rebellious history. Hacienda, Elbow, Bob Dylan… Starting point: People’s History Museum, all part of Manchester’s Belle Vue Showground of the World Exhibition Museum of Science & Industry Road, Manchester 33 Dale Street, Manchester M1 2HE M3 4FB 0161 832 2244 www.mosi.org.uk Left Bank, Spinningfields, M3 3ER musical histories in this classic walking tour. 0161 306 1982 (for further details) Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks National Football Museum Building Starting point: Outside Knott Bar, Beswick Library 60 Grey Mare Lane, Manchester M11 3DS Cathedral Gardens, Manchester M4 3BG 0161 605 8200 www.nationalfootballmuseum.com Castle Street, Castlefield, M4 4LY 0161 245 7241 www.manchester.gov.uk 2.00pm – 4.00pm, Facques Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks Blackwell’s Bookshop The Precinct Centre, Oxford Road, Nexus Art Café 2 Dale Street, Manchester M1 1JW £6 with free map (£2 for self-guided map). Manchester M13 9RN 0161 274 3331 0161 236 0100 www.nexusartcafe.com To book or buy a map visit https://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk http://skyliner.bigcartel.com/category/tour Ordsall Hall 322 Ordsall Lane, Salford M5 3AN 1.30pm & 2.45pm (45 mins tour), Ordsall Hall Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute 0161 872 0251 www.salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk Instead of blue plaques, Skyliner brings you ‘facques’ ‘Faces and Places’ Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX People’s History Museum Left Bank, Spinningfields 0161 446 3156 www.cancer.org.uk place of interesting facts displayed across the city. £2 Booking advised on 0161 872 0251 Manchester M3 3ER 0161 838 9190 www.phm.org.uk Join the tour or do your own self-guided walk. Chetham’s Library Long Millgate, Manchester M3 1SB Get to know some of the wonderful characters that Portico Library 57 Mosley Street, Manchester 0161 834 7961 www.chethams.org.uk Starting point: To be confirmed on booking have lived in Salford’s jewel, Ordsall Hall, over M2 3HY 0161 236 6785 www.theportico.org.uk the centuries. Cornerhouse 70 Oxford Road, Manchester M1 5NH Hayley Flynn, Skyliner The Quays Pier 8, Salford Quays M50 3AZ 0161 299 1500 www.cornerhouse.org Starting point: Ordsall Hall, Ordsall Lane, Salford, 0161 848 8601 www.thequays.org.uk East Manchester History & Gaming Centre 2.00pm – 3.30pm, Manchester in World War One M5 3AN Robinson’s Brewery Lower Hillgate, Stockport SK1 1JJ Knivton Road, Godley, Hyde SK14 2PU £7, (£6) Booking advised at 0161 612 4061 www.robinsonbrewery.com www.mcrmilhist.org.uk www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk 2.00pm – 3.30pm, Royal Exchange Theatre St Ann’s Square, Manchester Friend’s Meeting House 6 Mount Street Costumed Walk of Historic Stockport M2 7DH 0161 833 9833 www.royalexchange.co.uk Providing a fascinating snapshot of the city in 1914, Manchester M2 5NS 0161 834 5797 hear poignant stories of brave Manchester men and FREE www.quakertrading.co.uk/central-manchester Salford Museum & Art Gallery Peel Park, The Crescent, women and how WW1 changed our lives forever. Salford M5 4WU 0161 778 0800 Come and meet the historical costumed characters Godlee Observatory Sackville Street Building www.salfordcommunityleisure.co.uk Starting point: Front steps, Manchester Town Hall, of Stockport: shawls, whiskers, petticoats and mop University of Manchester, Manchester M1 3BU M2 5DB caps galore! 0161 306 4977 The Space 87-91 Great Ancoats Street Manchester M4 5AG 0161 228 7321 Kate Dibble, Manchester Guided Tours Starting point: Robinson’s Brewery, Aspley Street, Greater Manchester Police Museum Stockport, SK1 1JJ 57a Newton Street, Manchester M1 1EX St. Augustine’s RC Church Grosvenor Street 0161 856 3287 www.gmpmuseum.com Manchester M15 6BW 0161 236 6762 4.00pm – 7.00pm, Marble Brewery Suzanne Hindle, Manchester Guided Tours The John Rylands Library 150 Deansgate Manchester St. Thomas Centre Ardwick Green North, Manchester £15 Booking essential at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk M3 3EH 0161 306 0555 www.library.manchester.ac.uk M12 6FZ 0161 277 1010 2.00pm – 4.00pm, The Meta Walk Enjoy a drink and tour of Marble Brewery, dive into Manchester Art Gallery Moseley Street, Manchester M2 3JL St. James Church/The Old Parsonage its histories, and sample its award winning beers FREE but booking essential at 0161 235 8877 www.manchestergalleries.org Stenner Lane, Manchester M20 2RQ whilst learning about the area surrounding its 3 pubs. http://tinyurl.com/lta4479 Manchester Central Library Town Hall, Manchester Stockport Heritage Library Wellington Road South Starting point: The Marble Arch pub, 73 Rochdale Wander with the Loiterers Resistance Movement in M60 2LA www.manchester.gov.uk Stockport SK1 3RS 0161 474 4530 the footsteps of heroes, villains and revolutionaries www.stockport.gov.uk Road, M4 4HY Manchester Jewish Museum 190 , and explore how walking shapes the city. Emma Fox, Manchester Guided Tours Manchester M8 8LW 0161 834 9879 Three Minute Theatre Starting point: To be confirmed on booking. www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com Palace, Oldham Street, Manchester M1 1JG 0161 834 4517 www.threeminutetheatre.co.uk Morag Rose, Loiterers Resistance Movement Manchester Metropolitan University Sunday 30 March Special Collections, 3rd Floor, Sir Kenneth Green Library Towers Business Park All Saints, Manchester M15 6BH 0161 247 6107 Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 2YY 11.00am – 12.30pm, Radical Ashton-under-Lyne 2.00pm – 3.00pm, A Stroll in Victoria Park Manchester Museum Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL £6 (£5) on the day FREE University of Bolton Deane Road, Bolton BL3 5AB 0161 275 2648 www.manchester.ac.uk/museum 01204 900600 www.bolton.ac.uk Find out about Ashton-under-Lyne’s radical history A walk along some of the tree-lined streets of Manchester Tennis & Racquet Club 33 Blackfriars Road The University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester including the Bread Riot of 1863 or the political Victoria Park sharing the fascinating stories of Salford M3 7AQ 0161 834 0616 www.mtrc.co.uk M13 9PL 0161 306 6000 www.manchester.ac.uk career of socialist and suffragette Hannah Mitchell. some of the occupants from its elegant buildings. Manchester Town Hall Albert Square, Manchester M60 2LA The YHA Potato Wharf, Off Liverpool Road Starting point: Ashton-under-Lyne Town Hall steps, Starting point: The junction of Oxford Place & 0161 234 5000 www.manchester.gov.uk/townhall Manchester M3 4NB 161 839 9960 www.yha.org.uk Market Square, OL6 6DL Oxney Road, Manchester Mechanics Institute 103 Princess Street, Manchester M1 6DD Working Class Movement Library 51 Crescent, Salford Michael Herbert, Red Flag Walks & Fallowfield Civic Society 0161 236 9336 www.mechanicsinstitute.co.uk M5 4WX 0161 736 3601 www.wcml.org.uk

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Daily A Victorian Pharmacy 23 Wednesday 26 March Forgotten Fields Film Show 11 Belle Vue Digital Map 5 Strawberry Studios Stockport 3 Belle Vue Dance & Drama 9 Greater Manchester County Record Office Belle Vue: Showground of the World Exhibition Enriqueta Rylands: cultural crossroads 18 Handling Session 15 & Events 2 Sunday 23 March From Cheetham Hill to Cheadle 10 Hidden Gems of Manchester 25 Hidden Manchester/Manchester Seen 21 Altrincham at War 23 From Little Ireland to Chinatown 18 Manchester & Its Refugees: Past and Present 8 Histonauts 3: The Manchester Music Edition 6 Belle Vue Roadshow 5 Innovation: Made in Manchester 24 Quakers & Refugees 12 Horsfall 6 Belle Vue Walking Tour 5 Jewish Manchester 24 Manchester Central Library Tours Cottonopolis 10 Manchester’s Football Memories 8 Saturday 29 March (excl. 23rd & 30th) 2 Family Life in pre-Victorian Manchester 17 North West Film Archive Handling Session 14 All for Love and Nothing for Reward 20 NW Film Archive Screenings The Hidden Histories of Angel Meadow 23 The Pankhursts: Manchester’s Golden Family 18 Barry Adamson: Interview and Q&A 11 (excl. 21st, 23rd & 30th) 10 The Key Decade: Manchester in the 1840s 17 Peterloo 2019: A Discussion 7 The Big Digital Project 11 Remembering Bradford Pit 12 Radical Salford 23 Radical Manchester: People’s History Museum Facques 26 Sporting Stockport (excl. 30th) 12 The Secret History of Manchester 23 Gallery Tour 24 Greater Manchester Police Museum Open Day 15 St James’ and Didsbury Park Conservation Area Soapbox Sunday 7 Romans in Ancient Worlds 25 Henry Watson Music Library Handling Session 15 (excl. 21st) 12 Stockport Rocks 23 The Towers Estate and its Place in the Making If Revolution Could Speak… 8 Thank You (excl. 29 & 30th) 2 Women and the Great War 12 of Manchester 19 Jerome Caminada 25 Working Class Movement Library Open Day 13 Manchester’s Football Memories 8 Friday 21 March Thursday 27 March Manchester in World War One 26 The Castlefield Explorer 21 Monday 24 March Behind the Scenes: Building the People’s History MHF 2014 Celebration Day in Manchester Town Hall Discover Peace: Manchester Trail 21 120 years Fighting Cancer in Manchester 23 Museum 14 & Friends Meeting House 4 Music in Manchester 21 Archives+ Special Collections Handling Session 13 Belle Vue 19 Manchester’s Revolutionary Political History 26 Radical Manchester: People’s History Museum Engels and Marx in Manchester 17 The Boys in Blue: Manchester City FC on Film 10 The Manchester Rising of 1817 7 Gallery Tour 21 For the Duration of the War 17 Bright Club Manchester: MHF Special 10 Marble Brewery 26 Tag the Library 6 The Histories of Ardwick Green 24 Concerts for the People 19 Strawberry Studios Stockport 3 University of Manchester Heritage Tours 21 John Rylands Library and the Royal Exchange 24 From Body Snatching to Computer Simulation 19 Subversive Histories 11 Manchester Heroes 7 From Cheetham Hill to Cheadle 10 Vanishing for the Vote 20 Saturday 22 March Old Didsbury 23 Godlee Observatory 25 Voices Manchester 15 Angel Meadow: Slums and Squalor 16 Recent Acquisitions: Harry Thorneycroft’s Clock 13 The Incurable Collector: The Sir Harry Page Woman’s Outlook: A Surprisingly Modern The Architecture of Manchester 16 Strawberry Studios Stockport 3 Collection 15 Magazine 20 Discover Peace: Manchester Trail 22 Manchester and Germany: A Friendship 8 Worktown to Cottonopolis 8 Exploring African Medicinal Religious Objects 16 Tuesday 25 March Manchester at War 19 Facques 22 10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World 24 Manchester’s Chinatown 25 Sunday 30 March John Dalton: The Man and His Manchester 16 101 Ways to Die on Lark Hill Place 24 Peterloo: Soldiers on the Rampage 11 Belle Vue Walking Tour 5 The Great Gentry House Bus Tour 22 A City Speaks 10 Queen Victoria’s Visit to Salford 19 Costumed Walk of Historic Stockport 26 The Little People’s History Museum Beeing Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre Rackets and The Racquets Club 17 A History of Manchester in Ten Plants 20 Special 9 Handling Session 14 Ruined 10 Manchester Drunk ‘n’ Sober 20 Manchester Big Saturday 9 Greetings from Manchester: S Hildesheimer & Co. 14 Salford Diocesan Archives Open Day 14 Manchester’s Music Landmarks 26 Manchester in Fiction 22 Lancashire to LA: the Legacy of John Parksinon, The Salford Explorer 25 The Meta Walk 26 The Manchester Rising of 1817 7 Bolton Architect 18 Strawberry Studios Stockport 3 Ordsall Hall ‘Faces and Places’ 26 Manchester in World War One 22 Manchester: A Personal History 3 Toastrack: An Unofficial History 15 Ordsall Hall Gardening Re-enactment 11 Rackets and the Raquets Club 17 Manchester in World War Two 18 The Watts Family 19 Radical Ashton-under-Lyne 26 Romans and Dark Age Manchester 16 The Manchester Ship Canal 18 Round the Football League We Go 3 Roman Object Handling 13 Masterplanning Mobility: Mancunian Methods 18 Friday 28 March A Stroll in Victoria Park 26 Salford Quays/The Old Docks 22 Old Didsbury 24 120 years Fighting Cancer in Manchester 23 Saturday Spectacular Family Fun Day 9 Salford Diocesan Archives Open Day 14 Do You Shop at the Co-op? 25 University of Manchester Heritage Tours 22 Strawberry Studios Stockport 3 Forgotten Fields 20

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Make the Manchester Visitor Information Centre Getting About Melanie Tebbuttt, Reader in History & Director the first place to go for full details of hotels, MHF 2014 is run by Manchester Histories, an Manchester Centre of Regional History, Manchester On foot what’s on, where to eat and travelling about. Visit independent charity, and supported by its key Metropolitan University www.visitmanchester.com or call in at Manchester It’s easy to walk around . partners: the University of Manchester and John Pickstone, Wellcome Research Professor, Visitor Information Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, Portland Pick up a map from the Visitor Information Centre Manchester Metropolitan University. Events The University of Manchester, Trustee Street, Manchester, M1 4BT, 0871 222 8223 and you can get to most places in under 30 minutes. are delivered by a range of organisations from community groups and museums to archives John Williams, Heritage Consultant and Blue Badge Guides. Free city centre Metroshuttle Getting to Manchester The Metroshuttle is a network of free buses that The easiest way to get to Manchester is by public Festival Team link the main train stations, car parks and shopping Tickets & booking transport with excellent train and national bus links areas across the city centre. There are three circular Festival Director from across the UK. We aim to keep as many events as possible routes running approximately every 10 minutes free, or as low as possible, during the Claire Turner www.nationalrail.co.uk has full details about train www.tfgm.com/buses/Pages/metroshuttle.aspx festival. The majority of paid tickets have a Belle Vue: Showground of the World times and fares to Manchester and its four train concessionary price for seniors (60+), children Ella Byford – Project Manager stations: Deansgate, Manchester Piccadilly (the (under 16s), full time students, job seekers Metrolink Jane Donaldson & Andrew Moore, Exhibition main station), Manchester Victoria and Oxford Road. and disabled people. Curatorial Team & Archive Research, National The Metrolink tram system has routes running National Express coach services arrive and depart Due to the nature of the festival, there Fairground Archive (NFA) University of Sheffield from Altrincham, Bury, East Didsbury, Rochdale, in the middle of the city and details can be found at are many different ways to book tickets Media City and Eccles into the city centre Jim Gee – Production Manager (freelance) www.nationalexpress.com and we advise you to book in advance www.metrolink.co.uk where possible. If you have any Clare Murray – Researcher in Residence has regular train links to problems, please visit the MHF website (University of Manchester) Piccadilly Station that take about 20 minutes and Cycling www.manchesterhistoriesfestival.org.uk Kenneth Smart – Photography run approximately every 15 minutes at peak times. or call the team on 0161 306 1982. (University of Salford volunteer) Visit www.manchesterairport.co.uk Manchester is a cycling friendly city with many cycle lanes. For information and further details visit Professor Vanessa Toulmin – Exhibition Curator & There are lots of car parks across the city if you are http://cycling.tfgm.com Director NFA, University of Sheffield travelling by car to Manchester. Access Festival Co-ordinators This brochure is available as a downloadable PDF from the MHF website. Tatiana Kondruchina (University of Manchester MA Placement) Access varies at the different events and venues. Please contact the venue directly Zoe Willock (volunteer) for further information. Press and PR Jennifer Dean (freelance) Social Media Nicola Daniels (University of Manchester MA Placement) Festival Board Film Making Rene Bissohong (University of Salford volunteer) Hannah Barker, Professor of British History, The Olesja Malaja (University of Salford volunteer) University of Manchester, Chair & Trustee Dave Haslam, Musician, DJ, author

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We would like to thank all our Partners & Contributors partners, sponsors and funders

42nd Street & Grizedale Arts Humanitarian & Conflict National Football Museum Lead Partners Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Response Institute, University New Manchester Walks Resource Centre of Manchester Newcomen Society John Amaechi Gary James, Manchester Newton Heath History Group Archives + Metropolitan University North West Film Archive, Barry Adamson The John Rylands Library Manchester Metropolitan Belle Vue Aces Dr Max Jones, University of University The Bailey Sisters Manchester Professor Rosamund Oates, Blackwell’s Bookshop Kindling Trust Manchester Metropolitan Tom Bloxham Rod Kippen University Natalie Bradbru, Co-operative Let’s Go Global Oasis Academy Aspinal Festival Partners College Dr Jill Liddington, University of People’s History Museum Bradford Pit Memorial Project Leeds Dr Robert Poole, UCLAN Bright Club Manchester Lip Service Theatre Company Dave Puller Cancer Research UK The Loiterers Resistance Quays Culture Dr Jennifer Carson, University of Movement Red Flag Walks Manchester Centre for MHF 2014 Volunteers Frank Rhodes the Study of Football & its Manchester & Lancashire Family Claire Robinson Communities, Manchester History Society The Royal Exchange Theatre Metropolitan University Manchester Astronomical Society Royal Northern College of Music Chetham’s Library Manchester Centre for Regional Rusholme & Fallowfield Civic Claire Mooney History, Manchester Society Heath Cole and East Manchester Metropolitan University Jaime Ryan-Ainslie Regeneration Team Manchester City Council Salford Community Leisure Didsbury Civic Society Manchester Guided Tours Salford Diocesan Archives Dr Abi Gilmore, University of Manchester Jewish Museum Salford Heritage Services Manchester Manchester & Lancashire Family Samuel Sefton Dr Christopher Godden, History Society Brian Selby Manchester Community Histories Awards Sponsors University of Manchester Manchester Metropolitan Skyliner Dr Esther Gomez-Sierra, University Special Collections Dr Jonathan Spangler, University of Manchester Manchester Military History Manchester Metropolitan Gorton Events Society University Gorton Local History Group Manchester Modernist Society Stockport Council Gorton Monastery Manchester Museum Graham Thomas Gorton Philharmonic Orchestra Manchester Music Map University of Bolton Gorton Visual Arts Manchester Statistical Society University of Salford Reverend David Gray Manchester Tennis & Racquet Victorian Society Manchester Supplier Partners GMCVO Club Group Greater Manchester County Claire Mooney Janet Wallwork Record Office Lauren Murphy & Bradford Pit Moira Walton Greater Manchester Police Memorial Project Keith Warrender Museum Museum of Medicine & Health, Jonathan Westaway, University of The Free Radicals University of Manchester Central Lancashire The Hallé National Fairground Archive, Michael Wood Images provided courtesy of project partners & contributors, Manchester Libraries, Information & Archives Henry Watson Music Library University of Sheffield Working Class Movement Library and Marketing Manchester.

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