Are the bones of Thomas Paine in your attic?

Rumours have swirled for 200 years that the father of the American Revolution's remains could be somewhere in Manchester

Step into Gallery One at the People’s History Museum in Manchester and you will come face-to-face with one of democracy’s greatest heroes.

Known as the father of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine was the British subject who fired up the spirit of US independence against his own country.

In the gallery you’ll find the desk where he wrote one of his def…