Tag: The Portico Library

Photo Gallery: Fancy Pants, The Portico Library, Manchester

Posted by Helen Nugent | Feb 12, 2019 | Art, Arts

In 1836, the enormously popular Manchester Music Festival came to a close with a fancy dress ball...

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Review: Outsiders – Five Women Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon, Manchester Literature Festival

Posted by Emma Yates-Badley | Oct 21, 2017 | Authors & Reviews, Books, It's Not Grim Up North, Northern Soul writes...

I’m tired of being told what a woman should and shouldn’t say. Coming off the back of a week where...

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Review: Bittersweet: Legacies of Slavery and Abolition in Manchester, Portico Library

Posted by Michelle Nicholson | Sep 20, 2017 | Arts, Heritage, Museums

Bittersweet, the latest exhibition from The Portico Library, looks at the abolitionists and...

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Northern Soul chats to artist Sarah-Joy Ford about feminism, LGBT narratives and Cut Cloth

Posted by Emma Yates-Badley | Jun 6, 2017 | Art, Arts, It's Not Grim Up North, Northern Soul writes...

I can’t knit for toffee. But I love material and my bedroom is stuffed full of fabrics ranging...

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Be Strong, Live Happy and Love: 350 years of Paradise Lost at The Portico Library, Manchester

Posted by Cathy Crabb | Jan 18, 2017 | Art, Arts

This year marks the 350th anniversary of John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost, the story of...

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