Dr Tony Shaw

In a deeply unpopular decision on 20 March 2003, Tony Blair declared that Great Britain was at war with Iraq. The majority of the public...

Not a large number of women writers from working-class backgrounds are associated with this kind of literature, although three who are ...

St Marks churchyard, Worsley, Salford.   'JOSEPH EVANS, BOTANIST, BOOTHSTOWN, BORN JULY 5th 1803, DIED JUNE 23rd 1874.' J...

  'IN MEMORIAM ST. VINCENT BEECHEY, M.A. SCHOLAR OF CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, BORN AUGUST 7TH 1806, DIED AUGUST 14th 189[9]'...

Harold Brighouse, of Eccles, Salford, wrote the play Hobson's Choice , which was published in 1916 with a dedication to Charles For...

    'Joseph Brotherton   1783–1857 "My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness o...

  Today, the phrase 'decent politician' has for many years seemed almost automatically an oxymoron  – on the other hand Josep...

'IN MEMORY OF JOHN PARRY, MEMBER OF THE LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF MANCHESTER, AN EARLY DIRECTOR OF THE M...

  'Kersal Moor   This Moor was the site of the first Manchester Racecourse (c 1687–1846) and the great Chartist rallies of 1...

'In Loving Memory of JAMES CROSSLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE CHETHAM SOCIETY, F.S.A. BORN AT THE MOUNT, HALIFAX; MARCH 31 ST ...

The dates of William Edward Armytage Axon (1846–1913) are only just visible on his gravestone, although he is also mentioned here in r...

A very impressive polished granite gravestone. Scottish-born applied chemist and environmental scientist Robert Angus Smith (1817–1884)...

Saint Paul's churchyard, Moor Lane, Kersal Moor, Salford.   The grave of Edwin Waugh (1817–1890) – pronounced 'Woff' ...

The exhibition of L. S. Lowry's work at the Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside, the University of Nottingham's Public Arts Centre ...