Philippa Vishnyakov
@revealmcr.bsky.social
Manchester Green Badge Tour Guide. Walks and tours. The original lunchtime Manchester Netwalks for business.
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Researching women in the footnotes of Manchester history.
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www.revealmanchester.co.uk
Researching women in the footnotes of Manchester history.
26 November 1867 ‘Mistakenly’ included on an electoral roll (being a ratepayer), Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell cast a vote in a by-election, some 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act.
November 26, 2025 at 7:49 AM
26 November 1867 ‘Mistakenly’ included on an electoral roll (being a ratepayer), Manchester shopkeeper Lily Maxwell cast a vote in a by-election, some 50 years before (some) women were enfranchised by the Representation of the People Act.
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25 November 2000 A charity auction was held of various fixtures and fittings of the former Hacienda night club, Manchester. The list included pallets of bricks, sections of stage and dance floor, toilet doors, banquette seating, light fittings, a cash register and a DJ booth.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
25 November 2000 A charity auction was held of various fixtures and fittings of the former Hacienda night club, Manchester. The list included pallets of bricks, sections of stage and dance floor, toilet doors, banquette seating, light fittings, a cash register and a DJ booth.
25 November 2000 A charity auction was held of various fixtures and fittings of the former Hacienda night club, Manchester. The list included pallets of bricks, sections of stage and dance floor, toilet doors, banquette seating, light fittings, a cash register and a DJ booth.
November 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
25 November 2000 A charity auction was held of various fixtures and fittings of the former Hacienda night club, Manchester. The list included pallets of bricks, sections of stage and dance floor, toilet doors, banquette seating, light fittings, a cash register and a DJ booth.
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24 November 1806 William Webb Ellis was born in Salford. He was baptised at Sacred Trinity Church, Salford. The story of his invention of rugby is refuted but the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
24 November 1806 William Webb Ellis was born in Salford. He was baptised at Sacred Trinity Church, Salford. The story of his invention of rugby is refuted but the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
24 November 1806 William Webb Ellis was born in Salford. He was baptised at Sacred Trinity Church, Salford. The story of his invention of rugby is refuted but the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
November 24, 2025 at 7:30 AM
24 November 1806 William Webb Ellis was born in Salford. He was baptised at Sacred Trinity Church, Salford. The story of his invention of rugby is refuted but the Rugby World Cup trophy is named after him.
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
Images – Salford Firsts sculpture by Emma Rodgers, Chapel St Salford, featuring rugby ball
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This week in 1849 author of ‘The Secret Garden’, Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This week in 1849 author of ‘The Secret Garden’, Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
This week in 1849 author of ‘The Secret Garden’, Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
November 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This week in 1849 author of ‘The Secret Garden’, Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in Cheetham Hill, Manchester.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
Image – postbox in Albert Square decorated to honour her for World Book Day 2019.
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This week in 1990 Dodie Smith died. Born in Whitefield and living in Old Trafford until a teenager, she wrote ‘The Hundred and One Dalmatians’ and ‘I Capture the Castle’, as well as autobiography ‘Look Back with Love: A Manchester Childhood’.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This week in 1990 Dodie Smith died. Born in Whitefield and living in Old Trafford until a teenager, she wrote ‘The Hundred and One Dalmatians’ and ‘I Capture the Castle’, as well as autobiography ‘Look Back with Love: A Manchester Childhood’.
This week in 1990 Dodie Smith died. Born in Whitefield and living in Old Trafford until a teenager, she wrote ‘The Hundred and One Dalmatians’ and ‘I Capture the Castle’, as well as autobiography ‘Look Back with Love: A Manchester Childhood’.
November 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This week in 1990 Dodie Smith died. Born in Whitefield and living in Old Trafford until a teenager, she wrote ‘The Hundred and One Dalmatians’ and ‘I Capture the Castle’, as well as autobiography ‘Look Back with Love: A Manchester Childhood’.
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This week in 1923 a tram ran into a flock of sheep being driven along Cross Lane, Salford and killed one of them. Later that day, on the same road one of a herd of cows jumped on the bonnet of a van, breaking one of the headlights.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This week in 1923 a tram ran into a flock of sheep being driven along Cross Lane, Salford and killed one of them. Later that day, on the same road one of a herd of cows jumped on the bonnet of a van, breaking one of the headlights.
The timetable of the parliamentary day has long been the subject of debate. #OnThisDay 1837 Joseph Brotherton, MP for Salford, failed in one of his many attempts to limit sittings after midnight. Find out more about him in our post: victoriancommons.wordpress.com/2021/10/27/i...
‘I shall persist’: Joseph Brotherton (1783-1857) and late hours in the Commons
Joseph Brotherton by Samuel William Reynolds Jr (1836) (C) NPG In 1832 the borough of Salford elected its first MP, who would represent the constituency for the next quarter-century. Described in 1…
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November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
This week in 1923 a tram ran into a flock of sheep being driven along Cross Lane, Salford and killed one of them. Later that day, on the same road one of a herd of cows jumped on the bonnet of a van, breaking one of the headlights.
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 AM
This week in 1923 a tram ran into a flock of sheep being driven along Cross Lane, Salford and killed one of them. Later that day, on the same road one of a herd of cows jumped on the bonnet of a van, breaking one of the headlights.
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🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
🕯 Today we pause to remember the trans people whose lives were taken by violence this year. Those lost to hatred, and those lost to the unbearable weight of living in a world that too often refuses to see their worth.
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
We hold every name and every story in our hearts.
#TDOR
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BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
November 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
BREAKING: The UK’s response to Covid was “too little, too late”, a damning official report on the handling of the pandemic has concluded, saying the introduction of a lockdown even a week earlier than happened could have saved more than 20,000 lives.
20 November 1856 A meeting in favour of the abolition of capital punishment was held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
November 20, 2025 at 7:34 AM
20 November 1856 A meeting in favour of the abolition of capital punishment was held in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
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19 (or 18) November 1819 John Rhodes died. He had received a sabre wound to the head three months earlier at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester but authorities were keen to attribute his death to natural causes – the coroner’s verdict.
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
19 (or 18) November 1819 John Rhodes died. He had received a sabre wound to the head three months earlier at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester but authorities were keen to attribute his death to natural causes – the coroner’s verdict.
19 (or 18) November 1819 John Rhodes died. He had received a sabre wound to the head three months earlier at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester but authorities were keen to attribute his death to natural causes – the coroner’s verdict.
November 19, 2025 at 7:42 AM
19 (or 18) November 1819 John Rhodes died. He had received a sabre wound to the head three months earlier at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester but authorities were keen to attribute his death to natural causes – the coroner’s verdict.
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This week in 1923 a Salford paper reported on bare legs in a ballroom when three society girls wore golden sandals and no stockings. Another girl ‘trying hard to climb the ladder to fame’ removed her stockings but with black shoes and frock ‘her appearance was the cause of mirth’.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This week in 1923 a Salford paper reported on bare legs in a ballroom when three society girls wore golden sandals and no stockings. Another girl ‘trying hard to climb the ladder to fame’ removed her stockings but with black shoes and frock ‘her appearance was the cause of mirth’.
This week in 1923 a Salford paper reported on bare legs in a ballroom when three society girls wore golden sandals and no stockings. Another girl ‘trying hard to climb the ladder to fame’ removed her stockings but with black shoes and frock ‘her appearance was the cause of mirth’.
November 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
This week in 1923 a Salford paper reported on bare legs in a ballroom when three society girls wore golden sandals and no stockings. Another girl ‘trying hard to climb the ladder to fame’ removed her stockings but with black shoes and frock ‘her appearance was the cause of mirth’.
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17 November 1906 A meeting of 70 journalists at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, led to a national campaign for a journalists’ union. The @nujofficial.bsky.social was founded the next year.
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
17 November 1906 A meeting of 70 journalists at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, led to a national campaign for a journalists’ union. The @nujofficial.bsky.social was founded the next year.
17 November 1906 A meeting of 70 journalists at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, led to a national campaign for a journalists’ union. The @nujofficial.bsky.social was founded the next year.
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 AM
17 November 1906 A meeting of 70 journalists at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, led to a national campaign for a journalists’ union. The @nujofficial.bsky.social was founded the next year.
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16 November 1811 John Bright was born in Rochdale. MP for Manchester and later Birmingham, he was anti-slavery, anti-war and an advocate of free trade. His statue stands in Albert Square Manchester.
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
16 November 1811 John Bright was born in Rochdale. MP for Manchester and later Birmingham, he was anti-slavery, anti-war and an advocate of free trade. His statue stands in Albert Square Manchester.
16 November 1811 John Bright was born in Rochdale. MP for Manchester and later Birmingham, he was anti-slavery, anti-war and an advocate of free trade. His statue stands in Albert Square Manchester.
November 16, 2025 at 8:34 AM
16 November 1811 John Bright was born in Rochdale. MP for Manchester and later Birmingham, he was anti-slavery, anti-war and an advocate of free trade. His statue stands in Albert Square Manchester.
15 November 1757 Food shortages and high prices led to a riot (the Shudehill Fight) in Manchester. Rioters attacked soldiers with stones, killing one. The troops fired, killing three rioters and leaving more wounded.
November 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
15 November 1757 Food shortages and high prices led to a riot (the Shudehill Fight) in Manchester. Rioters attacked soldiers with stones, killing one. The troops fired, killing three rioters and leaving more wounded.
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This week 1821 eccentric Rev Joshua Brookes died. He performed mass baptisms and marriages at what is now @mancathedral.bsky.social during Manchester's industrial boom. As described in novel The Manchester Man, he is said to have paused burial services to fetch sweets with ‘a child’s love for toffy'
November 14, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This week 1821 eccentric Rev Joshua Brookes died. He performed mass baptisms and marriages at what is now @mancathedral.bsky.social during Manchester's industrial boom. As described in novel The Manchester Man, he is said to have paused burial services to fetch sweets with ‘a child’s love for toffy'