To the world it was Cottonopolis, but real Mancs know it as Town
Welcome to my newsletter telling stories from the backstreets of Victorian Manchester
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Welcome to my newsletter about working class life in Victorian Manchester. I’m Dean Kirby and I’m an award-winning journalist and urban historian exploring and writing about the grimy backstreets of the world’s first industrial city.
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