What do you know about Manchester?
Places you must visit:
Museum of Science and Industry
Belle Vue First Speedway Stadium 2:22
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TV - Coronation Street
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School
School uniform !!!!
Football
Manchester United
George Best 1:15
David Beckham
Steven Pelham 1:17
Sylvia Risby 1:22
St Mark's (West Gorton) FC which was came into being in 1800 through an initiative of Anna Connell changed it's name to Manchester City in 1894 in order to give young men an acceptable alternative to the pub.
MCFC is said to be the only football club founded by a woman.
Why is there a statue of Abraham Lincoln near the Town Hall in Manchester?
(Lincoln Square near Albert Square).Link to quotations "according to the archives at Manchester Central Library, our city was a very important ally to Abe Lincoln’s Union during the American Civil War. ...
Beneath the bronzed sculpture is inscribed a letter to the people of Manchester, commending them for a historic act of solidarity against the slave trade.
As the largest processor of cotton in the world, Manchester took a strong moral and political stance by supporting Lincoln despite his blockade of the Confederate states beginning in April 1861. This measure drastically reduced supplies of cotton reaching Liverpool and, therefore, the cotton mills of Lancashire.
The aim, for Lincoln, was to out-manoeuvre the Confederate states, win the civil war and ultimately abolish the US slave trade.
But Manchester and the surrounding area, which had once clothed the world, found 60% of its mills falling idle, largely as a result of the blockade.
Mill and shipping companies lobbied for the blockades to be destroyed, and in cities as nearby as Liverpool, opposition to the embargo and support for the Confederacy mounted.
But in a meeting at the Manchester Free Trade Hall in 1862, in a show of defiance despite potential starvation and destitution, workers agreed to maintain support for Lincoln and the embargo.
The meeting took place just as the cotton famine was beginning to have serious distress across the county. US aid ships followed the letter to the shores of the north west, offering relief to starving mill workers in a gesture of gratitude.
It is remarkable that the workingmen’s address offered support to the Northern cause. This was a time when it was widely thought that the quickest way to restore the cotton supply, and hence end the depression, was for Great Britain to recognise and intervene on behalf of the Confederacy.
In supporting Lincoln and the Union, Manchester working people selflessly put their principles ahead of their economic self-interest.
Lincoln wrote a letter on 19 January 1863 to thank the people of Manchester for their support. Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives holds a photocopy of the transcript received by Abel Heywood, the Lord Mayor of Manchester and the Chairman of the Chairman of the meeting of Workingmen, on 9 February 1863.”
The letter was addressed to ”the working men of Manchester”.
”In January 1865, months before Lincoln’s assassination, US Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment. Slavery throughout the United States was officially abolished.
Soon after, as the US constitution was being rewritten, the Confederate states which had been crippled by the embargo were being eliminated by Union forces.
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But Manchester’s roots in the fight against human rights abuses, and slavery in particular, predates even Lincoln’s birth.
In 1787, leading British abolitionist Thomas Clarkson gave a speech at what is now Manchester Cathedral.
After being met with hostility in Liverpool, Clarkson was given a much warmer welcome in Manchester and the city positioned itself at the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement here in the UK.
A set of documents relating to Lincoln held by Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (including the rest of Lincoln’s letter) can be found here.”
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Freetrade Hall
Politics
Emmeline Pankhurst - Suffragette - (från latinets suffragium - röst vid val)
Emmeline Pankhurst, född Goulden 15 juli 1858 i Manchester, död 14 juni 1928 i London, var en brittisk politisk aktivist och ledare för suffragettrörelsen som kämpade för kvinnors rösträtt.
Född: 15 juli 1858, Moss Side, Manchester, StorbritannienCitatkälla "I januari 1918 fick brittiska kvinnor över 30 år rösträtt, tio år senare sänktes åldern till 21. Med Margaret Thatcher fick landet 1979 sin första kvinnliga regeringschef. När får Sverige sin?"
Engels' "father, an orthodox religious man, thought that by sending his son into business he would rid him of his radical leanings."
Technology
Rolls and Royce
The computer The baby Manchester University and Ferranti Link (7:00)
Fairey Aviation - Light bombers - Fairey Barracuda - Fulmar Fighters
Marx(1818 - 1883), Engels (1820 - 1895) and Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
Friedrich Engels - The condition of the Working Class in England
Engels was in Manchester 1842 - 1844 and Nov 1850 - 1869/1870 (Check these details)
Stora svälten på Irland 1845-1852
spinning jenny
1848 Engels Marx "Communist Manifesto"
