Now known as the Green Quarter, Manchester's Angel Meadow was once described as "hell upon Earth".

Now known as the Green Quarter, Manchester's Angel Meadow was once described as "hell upon Earth".

Now known as the Green Quarter, Manchester's Angel Meadow was once described as "hell upon Earth".

Manchester's trendiest quarter was once awash with backstreet betting houses. When 400 police officers carried out a raid in 1885, it caused chaos.

It's the early hours on 9 November 1852 and families across Manchester have the sensation that thieves are breaking into their homes

How Victorian gutter merchants made a killing selling street food to drunks on their way home from the pub

Dr Dean Kirby is an author, historian, multi-award-winning former national newspaper journalist and creator of the Manchester History Club Substack.

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It's the cold winter of 1813 and in Manchester the River Irwell has frozen over. A school teacher named Lavinia Robinson has gone missing

If you came on my Angel Meadow tour this year, thank you. I have some big plans for next year.

Teaching Industrial People's Health through the story of Victorian Britain's most savage slum

Reaching over the machines to repair broken threads of cotton, the mule spinners of Manchester and Lancashire were falling victim to a silent killer

Hundreds of people became sick and dozens died before deadly arsenic was found in the city's beer supply

Archaeologists say the dig uncovered one of the best Roman finds in the city in more than 20 years.

Rumours have swirled for 200 years that the father of the American Revolution's remains could be somewhere in Manchester

The final part of my series on Friedrich Engels in Manchester and how I think we should really tell the city's story

This page lists all the programs broadcast on Allfm.org in my series under the title Manchester Science. This series explores the science being conducted in and around Manchester right now. […]

It's 1844 and a well-dressed man is walking through the streets of the world's first industrial city. The cotton looms are thumping like a heartbeat.

It's 1844 and a well-dressed man is walking through the streets of the world's first industrial city. The cotton looms are thumping like a heartbeat.

Just a few steps across the Irwell from Manchester's Exchange Square, Chapel Street in Salford awaits the developers

Industry, class war, Granby Row, Adrian Street...

Friedrich Engels, standing there with his arms folded in a concrete frockcoat, is impervious to the rays of sunshine

How a journey to uncover my family history led me to an encouter with Friedrich Engels in slums of Victorian Manchester