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Manchester: England's Greatest Industrial City
Thu 11 Dec
|Chigwell & Hainault Synagogue
Hybrid event - in person and online
Time & Location
11 Dec 2025, 20:00
Chigwell & Hainault Synagogue , Limes Ave, Chigwell IG7 5NT, UK
About the event
Speaker Ed Glinert is the author of 'Manchester Compendium: A street by street history of England's greatest industrial city'. He will share his research on the fascinating history of Manchester - both Jewish and non-Jewish - in this talk.
In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city. Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage., Peterloo and Engel's treatise on the conditions of the working classes its political history and the Manchester Guardian and Factory Records its cultural and social history. From Thomas de Quincey to Alan Touring, Neville Cardus to Morrissey - all are part of the city's rich and fascinating past. Covering every area of human activity and incorporating all the great events and key moments in the city's history this will be a fresh and…
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