Manchester Histories Festival - 24 February - 4 March 2012

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Black and white picture of family cycle ride at Heaton Park in Manchester Image courtesy of Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives, Manchester City Council Clarion Cycling Club and Family Cycle Ride Sun 26 Feb 2012 9am - 3pm Colour photo of the exterior of Elizabeth Gaskell's home Open House at the Home of Elizabeth Gaskell Sun 26 Feb 2012 11am - 4pm The Gaskell's House Colour image of Roxy Music fan with mike All About the Music Sun 26 Feb 2012 2.30pm - 4.30pm Band on the Wall Colour image of Gorton Monastery grounds and building Two Gorton Triumphs: Gorton Monastery and Belle Vue Zoo Tue 28 Feb 2012 11.30am - 1pm Gorton Monastery Colour head and shoulders shot of Chinese author Helen Tse Sweet Mandarin Wed 29 Feb 2012 1pm - 2pm Manchester Museum Black and white picture of Captain Scott in the Antarctic Scott of the Antarctic and Manchester: the Untold Story Thu 1 Mar 2012 6pm - 7.30pm Manchester Museum Black and white image of the Thinker statue holding a microphone Bright Club Manchester 11: Histories Thu 1 Mar 2012 7.30pm Nexus Art Café Black and white image of Gorton Football Club in 1884, founding club of Manchester City. Football Debate Fri 2 Mar 2012 6.30pm - 7.30pm Manchester Town Hall Colour photo of Robert Owen-Brown Robert Owen- Brown's Celebration Day Food Demonstrations Sat 3 Mar 2012
10.30am, 12.30pm and 2.15pm Manchester Town Hall A black and white photo of Tony Rea's dad with his Italian Ice Cream stand in Manchester Celebration Day Films Sat 3 Mar 2012 10.30am - 4pm Manchester Town Hall Colour image of people playing an outdoor game Larkin' About - The History Game Sat 3 Mar 2012 11am - 4pm Manchester Town Hall Colour photograph of Manchester Chinatown's arch Image courtesy of the University of Manchester Manchester a City of Chinese Firsts Sat 3 Mar 2012 12.30pm - 1.30pm Friends' Meeting House Frances Lockett meeting Gordon Selfridge Cotton Queen Quest Sat 3 Mar 2012 1.30pm - 2.30pm Friends' Meeting House Colour photo of Tony Robinson and Faye Simpson at a Tiem Team dig From Time Team to Manchester Sat 3 Mar 2012 2.30pm - 3.30pm Friends' Meeting House A dinosaur skeleton inside the Manchester Museum Manchester Networks Sat 3 Mar 2012 3.30pm - 4.30pm Friends' Meeting House Black and white image of the programme for the first screening of Dante's Inferno in 1913 at Manchester's Free Trade Hall Dante in Manchester Celebration Day Film Screening Sat 3 Mar 2012 4pm - 5.30pm Manchester Town Hall Colour image of the Women Like You portrait created by Charlotte Newson of Emmline Pankhurst. Women Like You Fri 24 Feb 2012 Fri 24 Feb 2012 to Fri 2 Mar 2012, 10.30am - 1pm People's History Museum
The Pre-Raphaelites & the Great Art Treasures of Manchester Fri 24 Feb 2012 10.30am - 12.15pm Magic Carpet: Manchester Fri 24 Feb 2012 11am - 12 noon Manchester Museum Ancoats and Little Italy Fri 24 Feb 2012 11am - 12.30pm Travelodge 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 Big Sat: Manchester Sat 25 Feb 2012 11am - 4pm Manchester Museum Immigrants of Manchester Sat 25 Feb 2012 11.30am - 1pm Canal Cruise Sat 25 Feb 2012 11.30am - 2.30pm Slavery and Abolition Day School Sat 25 Feb 2012 1pm - 4pm Zion Arts Centre 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 Moving Stories Sun 26 Feb 2012 12 noon - 12.30pm People's History Museum The Gangs of Manchester Sun 26 Feb 2012 1pm - 3pm Discover Manchester Sun 26 Feb 2012 1pm - 2.30pm 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 BCS/IET Annual Turing Lecture 2012 Tue 28 Feb 2012 5pm - 7pm 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 The Military History of Manchester Tue 28 Feb 2012 7.30pm - 10pm The Scout Hut 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 Starting Your Family History Wed 29 Feb 2012 11am - 1pm, 1.30pm - 3.30pm Manchester & Lancashire Family History Society Radical Salford Wed 29 Feb 2012 12 noon - 2pm Star Lecture: Migration and the Transformation of Manchester Wed 29 Feb 2012 1pm - 2.45pm Roscoe Building, University of Manchester Death of a Diva Wed 29 Feb 2012 1pm - 2pm City Library, Manchester Charles Dickens 200th Birthday Celebration Wed 29 Feb 2012 2pm - 3.30pm Caught in Time Wed 29 Feb 2012 2.30pm - 3.30pm City Library, Manchester Eight Lions + an Unmbrella Walking Tour Wed 29 Feb 2012 5pm - 7pm Building the Big Ditch: Victorian Magic Lantern Show Wed 29 Feb 2012 7pm - 9.30pm The YHA Potato Wharf Manchester's Victorian Dark Underbelly Thu 1 Mar 2012 10.30am - 1pm Family History Help Desk Thu 1 Mar 2012 10.30am - 4pm City Library, Manchester Alan Turing Centenary Celebrations Walk Thu 1 Mar 2012 11am - 12.30pm The John Rylands Papyri Collection Thu 1 Mar 2012 6pm - 7.30pm The John Rylands Library The Football Pub Tour Thu 1 Mar 2012 6pm - 8pm Manchester Irish Fri 2 Mar 2012 11.30am - 1pm Manchester Architecture Fri 2 Mar 2012 1pm - 2.30pm Salford Sioux Fri 2 Mar 2012 1pm - 2pm Manchester Museum Cottonopolis Fri 2 Mar 2012 2pm - 3.30pm What a Performance Sat 3 Mar 2012
11.1am, 12.15pm, 1.15pm & 2.15pm Imperial War Museum North Archaeology of Communications Sat 3 Mar 2012 9.15am - 5pm MediaCityUK The Portico Library Open Day Sat 3 Mar 2012 10am - 4pm Portico Library Museum of Transport Open Day Sat 3 Mar 2012 10am - 4.30pm Museum of Transport, Greater Manchester The Hanging of a Pacifist Sat 3 Mar 2012 10.30am - 11.30am Friends' Meeting House A City United Sat 3 Mar 2012 10.30am - 11.30am Friends' Meeting House Never Counted Out! Sat 3 Mar 2012 10.30am - 11.30am Friends' Meeting House Slavery & Suffrage: William Cuffay Sat 3 Mar 2012 11am People's History Museum Adam Hart Davis - Scientist Heroes of the North West Sat 3 Mar 2012 11am - 11.45am Museum of Science and Industry Manchester 100 Years Ago Sat 3 Mar 2012 11am - 1pm The John Rylands Library The Witness to Peterloo Sat 3 Mar 2012 11.30am - 12.30pm Friends' Meeting House Statistics, Poverty and Civic Engagement Sat 3 Mar 2012 11.30am - 12.30pm Friends' Meeting House Manchester and the American Civil War Sat 3 Mar 2012 11.30am - 12.30pm Friends' Meeting House 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 A Brief Introduction to Manchester's Alternative Music Magazines Sat 3 Mar 2012 12.30pm - 1.30pm Friends' Meeting House Manchester Dogs Sat 3 Mar 2012 12.30pm - 1.30pm Friends' Meeting House Friedrich Engels in Manchester Sat 3 Mar 2012 1pm - 2.30pm Computers and Computing in Manchester Sat 3 Mar 2012 1.30pm - 2.30pm Friends' Meeting House Miserable Blue Eyes Sat 3 Mar 2012 1.30pm - 2.30pm Friends' Meeting House A Mending Workshop Sat 3 Mar 2012 2pm - 4.30pm Holy Innocents Church Motoring and Leisure in Edwardian Manchester Sat 3 Mar 2012 2.30pm - 3.30pm Friends' Meeting House Yuri Gagarin Sat 3 Mar 2012 2.30pm - 3.30pm Friends' Meeting House The History of Manchester Football Sat 3 Mar 2012 3pm - 4.40pm Head for the Hills Sat 3 Mar 2012 3.30pm - 4.30pm Friends' Meeting House Lights! Camera! Drizzle! Sat 3 Mar 2012 3.30pm - 4.30pm Friends' Meeting House 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 The Lost Rivers of Manchester Sun 4 Mar 2012 2pm - 4.30pm In the Shadow of the Cathedral Sun 4 Mar 2012 2pm - 3pm Chetham's Library Manchester's Fiery Political Past Sun 4 Mar 2012 6pm - 8pm Briton's Protection The Witness to Peterloo Workshops Sat 18 Feb 2012 & Sat 25 Feb 2012 at 11am - 2pm The John Rylands Library 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 Romans in Manchester Sat 25 Feb 2012 to Sun 26 Feb 2012
2.30pm, Fri 2 Mar 2012
2.30pm & Sun 4 Mar 2012
1.00pm & 2.30pm Museum of Science and Industry Manchester Town Hall Clock Tower Tours Sat 25 Feb 2012 and 3 more Manchester Town Hall 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 Forgotten Fields - Levenshulme Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Fri 2 Mar 2012
9am - 6pm & Sat 3 Mar 2012 to Sun 4 Mar 2012
11am - 4pm Bubble Cafe, The Inspire Centre Forgotten Fields - Timperley Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Tue 28 Feb 2012
Check with the venue for opening times & Thu 1 Mar 2012 to Sat 3 Mar 2012
Check with the venue for opening times Timperley Library Forgotten Fields - Sale Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Sat 3 Mar 2012
10.00am - 5.00pm Foyer Exhibition Space, Sale Waterside Infra_MANC Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Fri 2 Mar 2012
10.00am - 5.00pm RIBA Hub Forgotten Fields - Tameside Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Sat 3 Mar 2012
Check with the venue for opening times Tameside Central Library Forgotten Fields - Eccles Mon 27 Feb 2012 to Tue 28 Feb 2012
Check with the venue for opening times & Thu 1 Mar 2012 to Sat 3 Mar 2012
Check with the venue for opening times Winton Library Forgotten Fields - Cheetham Tue 28 Feb 2012 to Sun 4 Mar 2012
Check with the venue for opening times Broughton Library The Town Hall Murals Tue 28 Feb 2012 2.30pm - 4.15pm & Fri 2 Mar 2012 10.30am - 12.15pm I'll Be Bert Fri 2 Mar 2012 8.30pm - 9.30pm & Sat 3 Mar 2012 12 noon - 1pm Manchester Town Hall Birley Fields Community Heritage Project: Digging Forgotten Hulme Sat 3 Mar 2012
9.00am - 12.00pm & 1.00pm - 3.00pm & Sun 4 Mar 2012
9.00am - 12.00pm & 1.00pm - 3.00pm Histonauts Two Fri 24 Feb 2012 to Sun 4 Mar 2012 Introducing Imperial War Museum North Fri 24 Feb 2012 to Sat 3 Mar 2012
1.30pm daily Imperial War Museum North From Swaddling Clothes to Winding Sheet Sat 25 Feb 2012 to Sun 4 Mar 2012
Please check with the venue for opening times Holy Innocents Church Communist Party of Great Britain Sat 25 Feb 2012 10am to Sun 4 Mar 2012 5pm People's History Museum