2020
Oct
16
Tag: manchester
2020
Aug
25
Cropper Street/Osborne Street (3)
I’ve written much about the radical history of Cropper Street, Collyhurst. The BBC 2 documentary Manctopia, is a detailed investigation into property development in Manchester. Episode 2, shown 25 August 2020, features an interview with a resident of Osborne Street, which Cropper
2019
Nov
14
most radical street? exhibition moved to new homes
You can see one of the panels of my People’s History Museum exhibition, ‘The most radical street in Manchester?’ in its new home, the Lakeside Cafe, Boggart Hole Clough Park, Manchester. https://www.facebook.com/LakesideCafeBoggartHoleClough/ It describes the contest over the park in 1896-7 between
2018
Jan
13
locales: Cropper Street, Manchester (1)
This is the most radical street in Manchester history, in my opinion. In April 2017, I took a field trip around Ancoats and Miles Platting, north Manchester, to investigate some of the sites of protest and popular politics that I researched for