Manchester Histories Festival - 24 February - 4 March 2012

What's On for 18+

Show events

In one list Day by day
The Pre-Raphaelites & the Great Art Treasures of Manchester Fri 24 Feb 2012 10.30am - 12.15pm Oxford Road Stroll Fri 24 Feb 2012 12 noon - 2pm Radical Manchester Tour Fri 24 Feb 2012 1.15pm - 2pm People's History Museum Egyptology in Manchester Fri 24 Feb 2012 6.30pm - 9pm
The lecture will begin at 19:00
Days Inn Manchester Conference Centre
Eight Lions & an Umbrella Sat 25 Feb 2012
12pm and 3pm
Manchester Museum
LGBT History Open Day Sat 25 Feb 2012 11am - 3pm Greater Manchester County Record Office Family History Open Day Sat 25 Feb 2012 11am - 3pm Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society Immigrants of Manchester Sat 25 Feb 2012 11.30am - 1pm Canal Cruise Sat 25 Feb 2012 11.30am - 2.30pm Weather Wise Sat 25 Feb 2012 2.30pm - 3.30pm Manchester Museum Manchester LGBT Heritage Trail Sat 25 Feb 2012 3pm - 5pm In Translation: Women, Migration and Britishness Sat 25 Feb 2012 3.30pm - 4.30pm Manchester Art Gallery Leisure and Pleasure in Didsbury's Past Sat 25 Feb 2012 7pm - 9.30pm Emmanuel Church After Hours Sat 25 Feb 2012 7.30pm - 10.30pm Whitworth Art Gallery Ancoats Canal History Walk Sun 26 Feb 2012 11am - 3pm Unlocking Salford Quays Sun 26 Feb 2012 11am - 1.15pm Medical Manchester Sun 26 Feb 2012 11.30am - 1pm Discover Manchester Sun 26 Feb 2012 1pm - 2.30pm The Gangs of Manchester Sun 26 Feb 2012 1pm - 3pm Mrs Gaskell's Manchester Mon 27 Feb 2012 10.30am - 12 noon Manchester's Theatre History Mon 27 Feb 2012 11am - 1pm Marie Stopes and Manchester Museum Mon 27 Feb 2012 1pm - 2pm Manchester Museum Art and Artists on Film Mon 27 Feb 2012 2.30pm - 4pm Whitworth Art Gallery Yemeni Roots, Salford Lives Preview Mon 27 Feb 2012 6pm - 7.30pm Sackville Building, University of Manchester The Old Salford Pub Walk Mon 27 Feb 2012 6pm - 8.30pm Chinatowntour Tue 28 Feb 2012 11am - 12.30pm The Architecture of Manchester: Original? No. Modern? Yes! Tue 28 Feb 2012 6pm - 7.30pm Portico Library Manchester's Telecommunications Firsts Tue 28 Feb 2012 6pm - 7.30pm Museum of Science and Industry Oral History Training for Community History Groups Wed 29 Feb 2012 10.30am - 12 noon City Library, Manchester Germanchester Wed 29 Feb 2012 11am - 12.30pm Radical Salford Wed 29 Feb 2012 12 noon - 2pm Charles Dickens 200th Birthday Celebration Wed 29 Feb 2012 2pm - 3.30pm Eight Lions + an Unmbrella Walking Tour Wed 29 Feb 2012 5pm - 7pm Manchester's Victorian Dark Underbelly Thu 1 Mar 2012 10.30am - 1pm Alan Turing Centenary Celebrations Walk Thu 1 Mar 2012 11am - 12.30pm The Football Pub Tour Thu 1 Mar 2012 6pm - 8pm The John Rylands Papyri Collection Thu 1 Mar 2012 6pm - 7.30pm The John Rylands Library Manchester Irish Fri 2 Mar 2012 11.30am - 1pm Manchester Architecture Fri 2 Mar 2012 1pm - 2.30pm Cottonopolis Fri 2 Mar 2012 2pm - 3.30pm Slavery & Suffrage: William Cuffay Sat 3 Mar 2012 11am People's History Museum The Peterloo Massacre Tour Sat 3 Mar 2012 11.30am - 1pm John Rylands Library and Royal Exchange tour Sat 3 Mar 2012 12 noon - 1.45pm Friedrich Engels in Manchester Sat 3 Mar 2012 1pm - 2.30pm The History of Manchester Football Sat 3 Mar 2012 3pm - 4.40pm Tour of Uninteresting Objects Sat 3 Mar 2012 3.30pm - 5.30pm Fanzines Sat 3 Mar 2012 4pm - 5pm Manchester Town Hall Annie Horniman’s Manchester Sun 4 Mar 2012 11am - 12.30pm The Pankhursts/Suffragette City Sun 4 Mar 2012 11am - 12.30pm Lip Service: The Hysterical Historical Walking Tour Sun 4 Mar 2012 11.15am - 1.15pm, 2.14pm - 4.45pm Up Then Brave Women Sun 4 Mar 2012 12 noon - 2pm In the Shadow of the Cathedral Sun 4 Mar 2012 2pm - 3pm Chetham's Library The Lost Rivers of Manchester Sun 4 Mar 2012 2pm - 4.30pm Manchester's Fiery Political Past Sun 4 Mar 2012 6pm - 8pm Briton's Protection Frances Lockett: Britain's First Cotton Queen Fri 24 Feb 2012 Fri 24 Feb 2012 to Sat 3 Mar 2012, 0 midnight Tameside Central Library Mirth in the Mill Fri 24 Feb 2012 Fri 24 Feb 2012 10am to Sun 4 Mar 2012 5pm, 2.30pm - 3.30pm People's History Museum The Clarion - a paper, a movement, a way of life Fri 24 Feb 2012 1pm - 5pm & Wed 29 Feb 2012 to Fri 2 Mar 2012
1.00pm - 5.00pm
Working Class Movement Library
Manchester Town Hall tours Sat 25 Feb 2012 10am - 12 noon and 4 more Yemeni Roots, Salford Lives Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Thu 1 Mar 2012
Daily from 9.30am - 4.30pm
Sackville Building, University of Manchester
The Town Hall Murals Tue 28 Feb 2012 2.30pm - 4.15pm & Fri 2 Mar 2012 10.30am - 12.15pm Histonauts Two Fri 24 Feb 2012 to Sun 4 Mar 2012 Communist Party of Great Britain Sat 25 Feb 2012 10am to Sun 4 Mar 2012 5pm People's History Museum