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  • John Dee’s Manchester (Part 2)

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3b3gy-1ace461 John Dee – the “arch conjurer of England” – was to spend ten years in Manchester. This is the story of his decade in the modest market town – an exile from Elizabeth’s court and a time marked by great personal tragedy. Chris, Dean and Yakub discuss the jealousy, local rivalries and petty rows…

  • John Dee’s Manchester (Part 1)

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-mv3yj-1ace433 Conjurer, scientist, schemer. John Dee was the most learned man in Tudor England. An advisor to Queen Elizabeth and an ambitious diplomat who coined the phrase ‘British Empire’. He also had an unquenchable thirst for the occult, conducting secret experiments to speak with angels, using magic to solve crimes and travelling across Europe in…

  • The Battle of Piccadilly

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3sn49-1ac6aad “The worst night of violence and destruction suffered by Manchester city centre since the Blitz”, according to a senior judge. The 2008 Uefa Cup final between Glasgow Rangers and Zenit St Petersburg should have been a showcase for international football – but instead ended up in a night of shame. By some estimates, 200,000…

  • The Mills – Death

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-96yf3-1aa1016 Death was everywhere in Victorian Manchester. In this episode we discuss the dangers of factory life and beyond, as well as the traditions for remembering the dead. Dean talks about the grim legacy of mass graves around the city, including sites (some now in city parks) where the dead were buried 18 deep. We also…

  • The Mills – Life

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-xhibz-1a6d46d What was life like for the thousands of people who worked in Manchester’s cotton mills in Victorian times? We discuss how young couples might tie the knot in mass ‘penny weddings’, often with disastrous results. We’ll talk about the immense pride many working families took in their homes – and how ‘donkey stones’ were…

  • The Mills – Love

    https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-jwmy6-1a4e042 Manchester’s cotton industry created a blueprint for modern, industrial life. But who were the men, women and children that lived in the shadows of the city’s towering brick factories? Chris, Dean and Yakub focus on the human stories from inside the mills – contrasting the uncompromising hardship of factory life in Victorian Manchester with…

  • the heck is this?

    the heck is this?

    “MANCHESTER HAS GOT EVERYTHING EXCEPT A BEACH”, IAN BROWN Historian DR Dean Kirby AND friends will delve into some of the forgotten corners of this English city – discussing its mUSIC, CULTURE, drugs and scandals – but also the offbeat moments of humour and its unbelievable inhabitants. OUR FIRST RUN OF EPISODES will span the…