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Properly researched Manchester tours, led by the city's leading historian and most entertaining speaker, Ed Glinert...on art, architecture, football, literature, music, politics.

20/08/2025

Turns out I'm on the BBC Sounds listing for Craig Charles' show at 1pm today, Wed 20 Aug!

19/08/2025

Delighted that my agent, Andrew Lownie, has an instant best seller with his weighty tome on one of the nation's favourite royals - Prince Andrew!

This year's most important Manchester book, "Manchester: The Biography", by my good self, Ed Glinert, is currently being...
17/08/2025

This year's most important Manchester book, "Manchester: The Biography", by my good self, Ed Glinert, is currently being printed and will be out in November with Great Northern Books.

It will shock the city, as there has never been a Manchester history like it. No one has ever gone into this kind of depth, the scope ranging from before the Romans to today
My mission has been to get Manchester considered as being as important as London. So just as Peter Ackroyd's "London: The Biography" comes in at around 700 pages, so does mine.

I am a stickler for accuracy and telling a good story. So whereas nearly every other Manchester history simply states that Rolls and Royce met at the Midland Hotel, with absolutely no evidence to back up this statement, I've done some original research into the story, only to discover that the claim falls apart.

16/08/2025

When we were being trained as tour guides 2008-09 (yes, we were trained!), Kate Dibble, who's been a Manchester guide since 1982 (!), told us not to do anything in August as everyone's away.

Well, this August, I've done:
* Beatles' Liverpool for Help!'s 60th.
* John Rylands Library.
* Marx & Engels in Manchester.
* The Grand Canals of Manchester.
* Tony Wilson's Manchester.
* The Glories of Manchester Architecture.
* Angel Meadow.
* Peterloo...with hundreds of people. Thanks for the tip, Kate!

There is only one Peterloo tour this Peterloo Day, Sat 16 Aug. It starts outside Central Library at 11am and finishes in...
15/08/2025

There is only one Peterloo tour this Peterloo Day, Sat 16 Aug. It starts outside Central Library at 11am and finishes in time for the reading of the names at the memorial at 1pm.
Please book on Eventbrite.

11/08/2025

A highly successful "Tony Wilson's Manchester" tour yesterday. Everyone turned up, everyone managed to find me at what I was told was a very obscure meeting point – outside HOME. No one hid themselves inside HOME and then moaned there was no guide. No one phoned half an hour later to say they'd journeyed from the Cape Verde Islands just for the tour but that there was no guide. It can be done! Thanks!

09/08/2025

A great day today. Lovely people came with me on the Marx & Engels trail and on the elongated canal tour, from Oxford Road station to the matchstick man pub, some 43 miles I believe.
Tomorrow, Sun 10, is the anniversary of the sad passing of Tony Wilson. Guided tour in honour of the Mayor of Madchester, 12 noon from HOME.

08/08/2025

The only properly researched, interesting, witty "Marx & Engels in Manchester" tour.
Guide: Ed Glinert, Manchester's leading political historian.
11.30 tomorrow Saturday 9 Aug from HOME.

05/08/2025

Just read a most disingenuous piece by Lanre Bakare in the Guardian (natch) about how black history is not part of the "official" history of Manchester.
For the Guardian, it was actually quite a good piece, apart from a reference to a non-existent statue of Nelson Mandela in the city and the fact that instead of contacting me, Ed Glinert, he got a quote from Jonathan Schofield.
I wanted to get in touch with this Bakare guy, but there's no means of doing so. Typical.
So who writes the "official" history of Manchester, I wondered, and then I realised, I have!
* "Manchester: The Biography", published by Great Northern Books this coming November and containing a substantial section on Manchester's black history.

Love The Beatles' Help! album, an underrated masterpiece filled with gorgeous love songs? Well this Wednesday, join me, ...
02/08/2025

Love The Beatles' Help! album, an underrated masterpiece filled with gorgeous love songs? Well this Wednesday, join me, Ed Glinert, occasional Mojo contributor, daily music expert, on my unique "Beatles Liverpool" tour.

It starts at Ken Dodd at 1pm and finishes near John Lennon's favourite pub.

I'll be playing extracts from each track and relating some interesting factettes about them as well.

Please book on Eventbrite.

Next Sunday, 10 August, we honour one of Manchester's most legendary recent figures, Tony Wilson, verily the mayor of Ma...
02/08/2025

Next Sunday, 10 August, we honour one of Manchester's most legendary recent figures, Tony Wilson, verily the mayor of Madchester, on the anniversary of his untimely departure to the great Hacienda in the sky.
Guided tour (with relevant music, natch) starts 12 noon outside HOME.
Must be booked on Eventbrite.

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