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Posts From: June 2018

Gothic Summits #2 - Manchester and Gothic Architecture

Gothic Summits #2 - Manchester and Gothic Architecture

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 29, 2018

Manchester Confidential’s Jonathan Schofield…

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Gothic Summits #1 - Manchester and Gothic Subculture

Gothic Summits #1 - Manchester and Gothic Subculture

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 29, 2018

“Make a culture on your own terms.” The…

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An interview with Dale Townshend - Manchester and Gothic architecture

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 29, 2018

In Chetham’s Library, where Marx and Engels…

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An interview with John Robb - Manchester and Gothic Subculture

An interview with John Robb - Manchester and Gothic Subculture

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 29, 2018

From its indefinable beginnings, to…

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An interview with Linnie Blake - Manchester and Gothic Subculture

An interview with Linnie Blake - Manchester and Gothic Subculture

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 29, 2018

“Ironically, in the Gothic, we often identify…

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The author and playwright putting the fear into Salford and Manchester: Joe O’Byrne

The author and playwright putting the fear into Salford and Manchester: Joe O’Byrne

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 28, 2018

'Frank Morgan', by Shay Rowan The last time most people in the area will have seen Joe O’Byrne, he was smashing up a chair with a baseball bat – on a Salford stage. His last artistic incarnation – Frank Morgan – was part of his one-man play ‘I'm Frank Morgan RewiRED’ which bought this aggressive…

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One Little Square: Corpses, Art and All Saints Park - Helen Darby

One Little Square: Corpses, Art and All Saints Park - Helen Darby

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 28, 2018

By Helen Darby, reblogged from 'Encountering the dead in All Saints Park' Manchester is a city of dark histories, creepy culture and even secret cemeteries. Even the site of All Saints Park (as discussed in this article by Michala Hulme) used to be a burial ground, containing an estimated 16,000…

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Meet Cottonopolis Coglective

Meet Cottonopolis Coglective

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 28, 2018

Think a metropolis made out of cotton – Cottonopolis. It became the term popularly used to describe, even romanticise, Manchester’s nineteenth century industrial prime. Now it is also a term used by the ‘Cottonopolis Coglective’ – the Greater Manchester Steampunk Group which meets regularly around…

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Manchester’s Body Snatchers

Manchester’s Body Snatchers

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 28, 2018

You may know of Burke and Hare – the notorious body snatchers of Victorian Edinburgh - but have you heard the stories of Manchester’s very own body snatchers? In this article, Historian and Genealogist Michala Hulme (author of A Grim Almanac of Manchester and Bloody British History: Manchester)…

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HOME and the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies - Xavier Aldana Reyes

HOME and the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies - Xavier Aldana Reyes

By Visit Manchester on Jun. 28, 2018

Manchester Metropolitan University has long had strong ties to HOME, Manchester’s foremost arthouse cinema, with a number of our academics having been involved in either previous film festivals (on queer cinema, for example) or annual ones (the ¡Viva! Spanish & Latin American Festival). HOME’s…

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