Snap Crackle and Pop-Happy 90th Birthday to Rice Krispies
The breakfast cereal, which gave Jonathan Ross his TV debut in an advert in 1970 aged 10, first came to Britain from America on...
Xmas comes early to the East Lancs Railway as report shows attraction is a...
Never mind his one horse open sleigh – Santa Specials have proved to be just the ticket for the East Lancashire Railway.
In the past...
Reducing Greater Manchester’s Carbon footprint
DCB Group has launched a recycling initiative which they hope will reduce Christmas card waste.
The printing company...
The women of Peterloo – their stories told at People’s History Museum
The role of women at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchesterwill be explored in People’s History Museum’s upcoming exhibition, Disrupt? Peterloo and Protest...
Rights of a child-New exhibition opens this weekend at Quarry Bank Mill
Visitors will have chance to discover how children’s rights have changed over time in a brand new exhibition at QuarryBank, Rights of the Child.
Launching...
Bank Holiday Treat for LS Lowry Fans
A rare painting by LS Lowry of a backstreet cricket match in 1938 is now on display at The Lowry in Salford for five...
Peterloo 2019: Protest Music at RNCM
Two hundred years since the Peterloo Massacre, RNCM and Manchester Histories have joined forces to create Protest Music, a powerful and compelling performance of...
A forgotten Peterloo- Seven years before another event would claim lives and injure hundreds
As Manchester prepares to commemorate 200 years since the events at Peterloo, About Manchester takes a look at another incident which claimed at least...
Barmcake or Muffin? Mancunians can chart their own accents and dialects
An interactive online map has been launched for Greater Manchester residents to plot the geographic boundaries of their own accents and dialects.
It is the...
Central Library archivists Save our Sound Heritage with digital technology
A new project being run by Manchester archivists will save more than 5,000 vulnerable sound recordings over the next five years, by digitising them...