Few people have had as great an impact on Manchester’s cultural landscape, primarily through his stewardship of the Library Theatre for 27 crucial years, as Chris Honer, who died on November 3 at Wythenshawe Hospital from...
Read MoreWhen I was boy in the 1960s (when people had to read real books), the racks of paperbacks outside newsagents often held two best-selling titles by Lord Russell of Liverpool – The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of...
Read MoreManchester, a city which likes to tell itself it has always led the laggards elsewhere, was building municipal housing long before the introduction of the Addison Act in 1919. But this unfussy display in the archives section of...
Read MoreA group of kids are playing with a homemade football, fashioned out of plastic bags. At first sight, it’s a photograph of childhood innocence. An image of carefree play in a village setting with lookers-on wanting to join in the...
Read MoreIn the past, daily and weekly markets were routinely held in towns and villages up and down the country. Fast forward to 2019 and it’s a different picture. While communities across the North have seen a recent resurgence...
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