Encounter with the Holocaust – Personal Reflections by Gary Spicer – Manchester Jewish Museum

An exhibition of drawings, photographs and writing by Manchester artist Gary Spicer in response to his visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau and Plaszow concentration camps in...

Local historian launches his first book

A new book by a Trafford historian will transport readers back to the times of the Wars of the Roses in an England...

Travels in the air-A journey through the Portico’s scientific wonder

The cataloguing of Manchester's Portico Library collection began back in 2011.Now with around eleven thousand of the twenty five thousand volumes accounted for,...

Cash boost for Peel Park

Salford's oldest park has been given an new year funding boost. Salford City Council has successfully bid for £54,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and...

Heaton Hall saved?

Manchester City Council has announced a new partnership working alongside the National Trust, Heaton Park Trust, English Heritage and Visit Manchester to secure the...

Classics at Lunchtime

Those with an interest in music concerts may be interested in concerts taking place at Manchester Metropolitan University's All Saints Campus this term as...

New blog showcases Greater Manchester’s First World War

A new blog has been set up to showcase Greater Manchester’s wealth of archive materials dating from World War I. Run by the ten local...

Two of Manchester’s buildings make English Heritage’s head top ten

The head of English Heritage has picked Liverpool Road Railway station and Ancoat's Murray Mill as two of the ten buildings that have changed...

It was fifty years ago today

Fifty years ago from a converted church on Dickenson Road, a new music show was aired for the first time from Manchester. Top of the...

Manchester comes together for Strauss Anniversary

2014 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the great German composer Richard Strauss and Manchester's three orchestras are joining forces to mark...