Manchester Historian sheds light on horses that helped win the war
Many of the WW1 centenary commemorations earlier this month focussed not only on the humans who lost their lives during the war, but also...
Manchester lecturer will be delivering this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures.
A Manchester lecturer will become only the sixth women to present the prestigious Royal Institute's Christmas lectures.
Started by Michael Faraday in 1825, and now...
Grave of Stockport’s Gabrielle Ray to be restored
The grave of Stockport born Miss Gabrielle Ray is to be restored by the Music Hall Guild of Great Britain and America.
Ray was arguably...
Heywood street to be renamed after Crimea War Hero
A street in Heywood is set to be renamed in commemoration of Private Anthony Palmer, a Crimean war hero and Victoria Cross recipient, who...
Happy Birthday Lindow Man
On 1 August 1984, a peat cutter on Lindow Moss found a long thin object on a conveyor belt. Assuming it was a piece...
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...
John Dalton – A Cumbrian Philosopher
A new book on John Dalton, celebrated chemist and propounder of the atomic theory, has been published.
Dr. Tom Smith tells the story of the...
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...
On Manchester, particle physics and why the God Particle is just a hype
This week the Hadron Collider exhibition comes to Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry
So what is it all about, did they find the God...
Robert Clive- A Manchester connection
For anyone who has been watching Dan Snow's latest BBC Documentary,The Birth of Empire-the East India Company, the name of Robert Clive crops up...