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Let’s End Poverty: Manchester joins national movement as British attitudes shift
The next online sessions take place in January 2024
This is Greater Manchester: Bury
This month we are in Bury, where photographer Gary Roberts found a place brimming with history and social change – for better or worse.
Why my biography of folk producer Bill Leader is really a social history of the Twentieth Century
When music critic Mike Butler discovered a folk legend in Manchester’s midst it was the beginning of much more than an adventure in sound.
Who pays your MP: how much are Greater Manchester MPs earning from second jobs?
Research by Sky News and Tortoise Media finds that the average MP has received £72,046 outside of their Westminster job since the last general election.
The Desperate House Hunter’s Blues
This is a poem from local author Rob Steventon’s book How I Made My Millions
published by Flapjack Press.
Just Stop (New) Oil Protest Saturday 17 June
We received word that Just Stop Oil would be doing a slow march in Manchester city centre last weekend, so we went along and spoke to some of the protesters.
Greenheys Remembered
A project funded by English Heritage, with volunteer support from the University of Manchester, revealed the links between archaeology, social history, and the lives of former residents.
This is Greater Manchester: Trafford
Photographer Gary Roberts was back on the road again last month, gathering images of life in Trafford as part of our whistle-stop tour around Greater Manchester’s ten boroughs.
Manchester City Council 2023 local election results & analysis
This year, one council seat in each ward (except for one with two seats) was up for election at Manchester City Council. Here’s a rundown of the results and what they could mean for the borough, both locally and in a potential GE.