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The Dinner Hour
In Manchester, lunch has always been called dinner
Feb 16
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Dean Kirby
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January 2025
The Battle of Clifton Junction
In 1849, railway workers from rival companies fought a pitched battle on the train tracks in Salford
Jan 25
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Dean Kirby
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Kissing the Shuttle
How an invention that sparked the industrial revolution in Lancashire became a hidden killer of the region's mill workers
Jan 18
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Dean Kirby
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December 2024
Merry Christmas from the Manchester History Club
And here's what's coming in 2025
Dec 20, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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The last Christmas before the Cotton Famine
Magic goblets were the latest craze on Manchester's Christmas markets in 1861, but across town thousands of mill hands were already out of work and…
Dec 7, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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November 2024
The Whiskey Wakes
When the priest entered the house, the dead man was laid out on the bed with a lit pipe of tobacco in his mouth
Nov 23, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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The scuttlers and the police who fought back
When the scuttler Henry Burgess waged a one-man terror campaign on the streets of Manchester, only one man was brave enough to stop him
Nov 16, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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October 2024
Sham sailors of the dry land navy
They swashbuckled their way through the streets of Manchester, but this fake navy of sham sailors had never been within 30 miles of the sea
Oct 26, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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Finding the lost souls of the River Irwell shipwreck
These are the names of the men and women who died in Manchester and Salford's forgotten maritime disaster
Oct 23, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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Finding the lost souls of the River Irwell shipwreck
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Shipwrecked on the River Irwell
The forgotten story of the sailing barge Emma and her 300 passengers
Oct 19, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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Dog and Duck
Step inside Victorian Manchester's most notorious thieving den
Oct 12, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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The Pedlar's Song
And other poems from the lost Victorian Manchester street poets
Oct 9, 2024
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Dean Kirby
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