Manchester History Club

Manchester History Club

Home
Notes
Chat
🌟Subscribe
📕 Donate a Book
Research Your Family History
Angel Meadow Tour
🚶🏻The Meander
Finding Mr Engels
Read My Book
Angel Meadow
Ancoats
Scuttlers
Archive
Leaderboard
About

Ancoats

The killer of little mule spinners
Reaching over the machines to repair broken threads of cotton, the mule spinners of Manchester and Lancashire were falling victim to a silent killer
 • 
Dean Kirby
3
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
 • 
Dean Kirby
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?
 • 
Dean Kirby
3
Kissing the Shuttle
How an invention that sparked the industrial revolution in Lancashire became a hidden killer of the region's mill workers
 • 
Dean Kirby
5
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
 • 
Dean Kirby
4
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
 • 
Dean Kirby
6
Guns and nettle beer
James Downey was a cobbler by day and a Chartist arms dealer by night
 • 
Dean Kirby
5
The Noble Art of Hawking
Hawkers were an everyday part of Victorian city life
 • 
Dean Kirby
4
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
 • 
Dean Kirby
8
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
 • 
Dean Kirby
10
The fall and rise of Nancy Dickybird
She was the terror of Manchester police, but Nancy Dickybird became beloved by Mancunians for her singing from the city's jail cells
 • 
Dean Kirby
The Ancoats Skylark
The forgotten story of a Manchester songbird that inspired a poet
© 2025 Dean Kirby
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture