Crime Central April 2023
Performance SpacePLEASE NOTE: Tickets for this event are on a “pay what you can” basis.They range from £2 – £8 plus the Eventbrite booking fee. All tickets allow the same access […]
£2 – £8
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Talks
Photographing the Invisible with Jill Furmanovsky & Jon Savage
Performance SpaceJoin Jill in this special talk with Professor Jon Savage from the British Pop Archive, talking archives, curating Photographing the Invisible and the difficulty of choosing what to leave out. […]
Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Afternoon Session.
Performance SpaceManchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation […]
Conserving Manchester Town Hall’s heritage: Restoring the Town Hall Clock. Evening Session
Performance SpaceManchester Town Hall has been closed since January 2018 for an extensive restoration programme that will repair and upgrade the building to modern standards. The work will include the conservation […]
Inspired by Libraries: Linda Brogan
Performance SpaceJoin us for this in conversation event with award winning playwright and artist, Linda Brogan. Linda will be discussing how her pursuit of memories led to the excavation of the […]
£2 – £10
Manchester, Bolton & Bury Canal, History and Preservation
Performance SpaceWe are delighted to welcome Paul Hindle to talk to us again. This time Paul's talk will take us through the history and restoration of the Manchester, Bolton and Bury […]
£3
Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme: A Postcard Heritage
Performance SpacePostcard collecting is still a popular hobby or a means of finding out more about a locality, but it is probably rare, these days, to receive a postcard through the […]
£3
Crime Central
Performance SpacePLEASE NOTE: Tickets for this event are on a “pay what you can” basis.They range from £2 – £8 plus the Eventbrite booking fee. All tickets allow the same access […]
£2 – £8
Elizabeth Raffald – England’s Most Influential Housekeeper
Performance SpaceManchester-based historian Neil Buttery presents a talk about the rise & fall of one of Britain's most influential cookery writers, Elizabeth Raffald. Join historian Neil to explore the life, times […]
Crime Central
Performance SpaceAs the nights get darker, Crime Central returns with three amazing authors and three new books to chill your bones. Rob Parker welcomes Fiona Erskine, Luca Veste and Neil Broadfoot to […]
£2 – £8
Behind The Scenes Tours at Manchester Central Library
What do George V, Gypsy Rose Lee and Bernard Bresslaw have in common? Which musician was once thrown out of the Language and Literature Library? What would you find now […]
£12.50
How Manchester Made Shakespeare Modern – Rosa Grindon, the Suffragist Shakespearean Scholar
With Dr. Monika Smialkowska and Dr. Ian Nickson. Never previously recounted, Dr. Monika Smialkowska and Dr. Ian Nickson chart Rosa Grindon’s journey from modest beginnings in a Derbyshire village to […]
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