Churchill in Manchester- The Oldham Tory
Fifty years ago this week, the death of Winston Churchill was announced. Britain's Second World War leader, Home Secretary and Chancellor during his political...
Manchester graduate long listed for Man Booker Prize
Stockport born Wyl Menmuir is one of four debut novelists to make the “Booker dozen” of 13 authors, for his novel The Many, which...
Margaret Atwood confirmed for MLF
Award winning Canadian author and international bestseller Margaret Atwood will be appearing in Manchester this autumn as part of Manchester's Literature Festival.Margaret's previous works include The Handmaid's...
Former Greater Manchester MP James Purnell steps up at the BBC
The former MP for Stalybridge and Hyde who resigned from Gordon Brown's cabinet in 2009 in a failed move to force a challenge against...
New book aims to explore memories of D Day
The story of D-Day has become very Americanised according to a Manchester historian, who has contributed a chapter on how Britain remembers the historic...
Meet Rosi Chapman, the entrepreneur behind Transformulas, the Manchester-born ‘skincare without surgery’ brand that’s...
Manchester born brand Transformulas has been a pioneer in the skincare world for twenty years. The company’s mission is for people to feel long-term confidence in...
100 years old: Ewan Maccoll -one of Salford’s Greatest
This Sunday is the one hundredth anniversary of Salford's own Ewan Maccoll, whose Song Dirty Old Town would immortalize the city.
Born James Henry Miller...
Mike Leigh to make Peterloo film
The BAFTA-winning and Salford born writer-director Mike Leigh has announced that he will be making a film about the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819.
Leigh, in...
Jason’s own brand of Halloween
Manchester's own Jason Manford is among a new crop of comedy stars will front a Halloween-themed series of short stories, which will be broadcast...
Will Self, Urban Psychosis, Manchester One and Igloos
Writer and Journalist Will Self was in Manchester on Friday night-About Manchester went to see what he had to say.
Urban psychosis, the finely balanced...