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The Monkey Parade
How Manchester couples found romance in the city's parks
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August 2024

Beyond Peterloo
How the Peterloo Massacre devastated one Manchester district
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The Noble Art of Hawking
Hawkers were an everyday part of Victorian city life
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July 2024

June 2024

Doctor Gaulter's cholera casebook
Family history tips: Tracing ancestors using a doctor's casebook from the 1832 cholera epidemic
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The racecourse thieves
How thieves including Flying Gibb and Dicky Drag earned their spurs as 'ticket snatchers' and 'rampers' at the horse racing in Manchester
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May 2024

How to train a pickpocket
Could you make it as a Victorian ‘breech buzzer’? This is how Manchester’s wiliest pickpockets learned their trade
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The coffin flood
'For all we know, hundreds of bodies have been washed down the river, and some of them have gone into the sea' - the horror of Manchester's worst flood
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Criminal ancestry: The secret art of using tattoos to investigate your family history
Victorian prison registers offer rare clues for family historians about the lives and loves of their criminal ancestors

April 2024

Manchester’s Lost Boys
The Franco-Prussian War had an unexpected impact on youth culture in the streets of Cottonopolis
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Welcome to the Manchester History Club
Join the new club for Mancunian history fans and share the story of the world's first modern city
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March 2024

'The bigger villain bit through Billy's hand': Victorian street fighting Manchester style
On a Sunday afternoon, the usual time for settling grudges, hundreds of people watched two one-armed beggars fight for their lives
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