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Finding Mr Engels: Part 4
The final part of my series on Friedrich Engels in Manchester and how I think we should really tell the city's story
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Finding Mr Engels: Part 3
It's 1844 and a well-dressed man is walking through the streets of the world's first industrial city. The cotton looms are thumping like a heartbeat.
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🚶🏻The Meander #2: Step across the Irwell into Salford's old Chapel Street
Just a few steps across the Irwell from Manchester's Exchange Square, Chapel Street in Salford awaits the developers
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Finding Mr Engels: Part 2
Friedrich Engels, standing there with his arms folded in a concrete frockcoat, could not look more out of place
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Finding Mr Engels: Part 1
How a journey to uncover my family history led me to an encouter with Friedrich Engels in slums of Victorian Manchester
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May 2025

The Manchester Mulan
In 1814, Sarah Roberts Taylor revealed to a charity officer in Manchester she had spent 21 years as a cavalryman in the British Army
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In the footsteps of Engels: New tour dates for summer 2025
Join more than 500 people who have been with me on a tour of Angel Meadow with new dates for June, July and August 2025
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The Manchester Mulan: Finding Sarah Roberts Taylor
Can the real story of Sarah Roberts Taylor who served 21 years as a cavalryman in the British Army be pieced together in the archives?
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🚶🏽What is the Manchester History Club Meander?
Explore the less-travelled routes through the city centre with this new series of posts exclusively for paid Manchester History Club subscribers
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Jerome Caminada's first night on the beat
The young police officer who became Victorian Manchester's greatest detective had an eventful night when he went out on patrol for the first time in…
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🚶🏻The Meander #1: Explore the hidden ginnels that connect two churches
By following a series of passageways once used by Victorian thieves, you can travel unseen from St Ann's Square to the Hidden Gem
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April 2025

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