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It’s been a while but my good pals Yakub Qureshi, Chris Osuh and I are back with a second season of our Everything But a Beach Manchester history podcast. Mills: Love telling the story of the real lives of Manchester’s mill workers is available now from all major podcast outlets.
Manchester’s trendy Northern Quarter wasn’t always coffee bars and record shops. In 1885, it was full of illegal gambling dens. Story here:
Today’s story from the Manchester History Club — The Earthquake Thieves. On an autumn night in 1852, families across Manchester had a strange sensation their homes were being broken into. Mr Plant reached for his gun. Only at dawn did they find out the real cause.
It’s been ten years since I published by debut book, Angel Meadow, and I still get a kick out of seeing it in book shops. Nice to see it still well stocked here at Waterstones in Bury, Greater Manchester @waterstones.bsky.social
This. Is. Brilliant.
Hope it goes well.
Nice to hear this Pete. Looking forward to catching up and showing you around Angel Meadow
Trotters and tripe: How Victorian gutter merchants made a killing selling street food to drunks on their way home from the pub.
Really pleased to be represented by the Graham Maw Christie literary agency @litagencygmc.bsky.social www.grahammawchristie.com/talent-libra... #history #author #books
El gato has found a new use for my Victorian Ordnance Survey maps. #catsofbluesky #maps #history
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Just opened the ticket sales for my Manchester Angel Meadow tours for March to June 2026. An ideal Christmas gift for the historian/genealogist in your life. 🎄🎄🎄🎄
#walkingtours #manchester #christmasgfts
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It's the cruel winter of 1813 and, in Manchester, the River Irwell has frozen from bank to bank. A school teacher named Lavinia Robinson has gone missing. Will she be found?
Thanks @projectkin.bsky.social. Very kind. Not sure how but a Substack live tour one day maybe!
If you were one of the 260+ brilliant people who supported me by coming on my Angel Meadow history walking tour this year, thank you. I have some big plans for next year. #Manchester #history #genealogy #genhour #walkingtours
Really nice to see this @petejackson.bsky.social.
Delighted to share this new blog on teaching People’s Health Industrial using the fabulous work of @manchesterhistory.uk and the story of Angel Meadow. I’ve loved working on this. Thanks Dean for your incredible book.
#historyteacher
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Exciting news! Our new website is now live!
fshousehistory.com
Cooking my Nan's dinners - Tater Ash
#food #nostalgia #familyhistory #genealogy #cookingmynansdinners
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I've taken a little risk of putting myself out there to make a short film about cooking one of the dinner's my Nan used to make for me. She died in 1998. If you like #food #nostalgia and #familyhistory, or just want to watch someone chopping carrots, the full film is on the link in the comments.
Hi Richard. I’ve sent you a quick email with my details.
Hi Graeme. George Andrew?
Boys and smaller men were the worst affected because they had to lean more into the machines while they were working.
The oil was made from shale, a carcinogen that gave them scrotal cancer. Untreated, the cancer got into the internal organs and turned fatal.
When the piercers leaned in to the machines to repair the broken yarn, the moving spindles sprayed their trousers with a fine mist mineral oil.
Although Mule Spinners’ Cancer was discovered in Manchester in 1887, a public inquiry was not held until 1925 and cases were still being reported at the start of the Second World War.
My story today - The killer of little mule spinners - is the story of how the work of young cotton mill hands called piercers was giving them a rare form of cancer.
#Genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry #genhour #history #lancashire
Workers in a Lancashire cotton mill. For family research visit www.cottontownsancestry.com
I've given my professional genealogy site a new look to better reflect my work in the mill towns of Greater Manchester and Lancashire:
cottontownsancestry.com
Do drop me a line using the site links if you need a researcher.
#genhour #genealogy #familyhistory #ancestry #manchester #lancashire
