Insults sent with love: the dark tradition of Victorian Valentine’s Day cards
Featuring vicious, mocking, and cruel illustrations and poems, Manchester Met’s collection of 19th century ‘vinegar valentines’ greetings cards showcase the dark Victorian tradition of...
Turing Pardon architect calls on tech giants to step in and save hero’s memory
The architect of Alan Turing's pardon and Turing's Law has called on tech giants to step in and save the WWII hero's memory.
The calls...
Remembering Resistance: Call for help with Manchester protest memories project
Popular protest is on the rise but there’s a long history of women’s activism in the North, with particularly strong connections in...
Potting Sheds to become exhibition space at RHS Garden Bridgewater
The Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) has received a grant of £98,900 from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to turn historic Potting Sheds into an...
Northern launches search for families of those named on the Lancashire and Yorkshire carriage...
Northern Rail is searching for the relatives of soldiers whose names appear on a long-lost war memorial which is soon to be re-housed at...
Helen Pankhurst launches #RadicalManchester campaign celebrating ‘birthplace of progress and innovation’
A campaign celebrating #RadicalManchester’s role as the ‘birthplace of global innovation and progress’ has been launched by Marketing Manchester Mbassador Dr Helen Pankhurst.
Timed to coincide...
Famous Faces needed for new exhibition in Leigh
People are being asked to nominate people past and present who have shaped Wigan borough to be featured in a new project at Leigh...
Manchester’s Pankhurst Trust seeks to appoint new Chair
Manchester’s Pankhurst Trust is seeking to appoint a new Chair of Board of Trustees. Having held the role after two very successful terms, Louise Sutherland is stepping down, but will continue to play an active volunteering role...
Wigan Council to preserve 1910, the year of two elections, posters
More than one hundred posters from the 1910 elections will be saved from deterioration thanks to new funding.
Wigan Council’s archives and local studies team...
Remarkable career of opera singer and spy Margery Booth honoured with Blue Plaque
The extraordinary life of an opera singer from Wigan Borough who played an important role in the nation’s war effort is to be marked...