Cotton, Brazil and Manchester
With the 2014 Football World Cup starting in Brazil, About Manchester takes a look at the region's connections with the South America Country.
In a...
Manchester on target to fail on climate change action in Half Time report
Manchester is scheduled to fall well short of its target for reducing carbon emissions according to a report out from its monitoring group.
Manchester, a...
The Sleeping Green Between
Inspired by the little known story of a First World War soldier, an intricately designed textile artwork containing almost 200 hand-stitched crosses is to...
Commuter Eugene passes the Turing Test
Alan Turing said that a computer could be understood to be thinking if it passed a test, which requires that a computer dupes thirty...
Checkmate in Beswick
East Manchester will be home to a one of a kind, major international piece of public art by renowned contemporary artist, Ryan Gander.
The...
Gem of a find for Working Class Movement Library
The Library has been given the Rochdale branch of the Women’s Social and Political Union, the organisation founded early last century in Manchester by...
Angel Meadow launches HOME’s new season
The name Angel Meadow conjures up the worse side of rapid industrialization, it was to Engels simply 'hell on earth', but this month it...
New play to tell the story of one of Manchester’s greatest boxers
It is the story of the greatest British middleweight boxer never to be champion.
Manchester's Len Johnson was denied the opportunity because of his...
Manchester’s First immersive Pop up cinema launches with Maxine Peak debut
Manchester will play host to the exclusive first preview of independent thriller, ‘Keeping Rosy’ starring Maxine Peake and Inbetweeners’ star Blake Harrison next month,...
Dazzling Renaissance discoveries on display at John Rylands
Eight examples from a remarkable ‘visual encyclopaedia’ of Renaissance prints, lying undiscovered in the archives of The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library for...