The Husbands and Boyfriends of the WSPU - a lunchtime talk at the Pankhurst Museum

Discover the macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the 'Manchester Mummy' in the first of our 2026 Salons.

A gentle seasonal walk and talk in the woods with writer and storyteller Hannah Kate

Submit your seasonal flash fiction to be played on Hannah’s Bookshelf this January! Can you tell a seasonal story in just 3 minutes? Want to have your work played on the radio? This month, I’m looking...

I’m putting together the schedule for a new year of Hannah’s Bookshelf on North Manchester FM, and I’d love to hear from you if you’d like to be part of the show this year! Writers, academics, publish...

Over the past year or so, I’ve been writing stories of the little moments of joy and strangeness I’ve experienced riding the rails around Manchester. I love trams, and I love the things I see on them....

Last week’s posts on ‘Suffragettes and Tea Rooms’ were based on the research I had done for the item that aired on Woman’s Hour on 4 September. The posts gave details of a few of …

Author of 'Unburied', Hannah Priest, in conversation with Manchester Museum's Curator of Egypt and Sudan, Dr. Campbell Price.

Another day of celebrating Imbolc... and another day of being a bit too busy to celebrate. Between a new job and a new book coming out, I ...

It's the second day of our Imbolc celebrations... but I'm too busy to do any celebrating. Oh dear. Hopefully, we'll catch up by the weeken...

It's nearly Imbolc, and so it's time to start celebrating! Well... maybe... in an appropriately seasonal twist, I had an interview for a j...