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Radical Walking Tour of Manchester 20% OFF
Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom
$27.27
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Overview
The Radical Walking Tour of Manchester offers an insightful exploration of the city’s revolutionary history over two engaging hours. This tour reveals Manchester's pivotal role in radical activity, taking you through significant sites that shaped its identity.
- 🕒 A 2-hour guided walking tour focused on Manchester's radical history, ideal for history enthusiasts and students.
- 🏭 Explore significant sites related to the Industrial Revolution, showcasing the city’s transformative past.
- 🏰 Meet at the iconic Manchester Cathedral, a medieval church central to the city’s industrial narrative.
- 📚 Visit Chetham's Library, the oldest public library in the UK, where influential thinkers like Marx and Engels studied.
- 🌾 Discover the Corn Exchange, a historical hub for grain traders and a site for Anti-Corn Law League meetings.
- 🎭 Admire the Royal Exchange Theatre, a grand symbol of Manchester's commercial strength and a platform for radical debates.
- 🛍️ Explore the Manchester Arndale, once Europe's largest shopping mall, and learn about its impact on local communities.
- 🌳 Reflect in Sackville Gardens, home to memorials for significant figures and events in Manchester's LGBTQ+ history.
- ⚔️ Stand in St Peter’s Square, the site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, a crucial moment in the fight for democratic rights.
- 👩🎤 Pause before the statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square, and hear about her role in the women’s suffrage movement.
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Radical Walking Tour of Manchester
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours
- Expert Historian Guide
- Gratuities
Meeting point
Meet by the Lady Chapel entrance on Cathedral street, next to the Love Bee. Your guide will be wearing a Rebel Tours badge.
Return details
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Manchester CathedralManchester Cathedral, once dominated by the city’s elites, discover how this medieval church sat at the heart of a rapidly industrialising town where wealth, power and poverty collided.
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Chetham's LibraryStep inside Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in the country, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels studied Manchester’s slums and began shaping ideas that would fuel revolutionary movements.
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Corn Exchange ManchesterVisit the Corn Exchange, once a bustling hub for grain traders and fiery Anti–Corn Law League meetings, and learn how struggles over food prices, free trade and working‑class survival shaped Victorian Manchester before the building’s reinvention as today’s dining arcade.
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Royal Exchange TheatreAdmire the Royal Exchange, a grand Victorian symbol of Manchester's commercial might, and uncover its radical underbelly where merchants debated free trade radicals rallied against exploitation in the world's first industrial city.
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Manchester ArndaleExplore the Arndale Centre, Europe’s largest shopping mall when opened in 1972, and uncover displaced communities, gentrification and the devastating 1996 IRA bombing that tested Manchester’s resilience and led to its regeneration.
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Piccadilly GardensPiccadilly Gardens, a bustling city-centre public space reborn from clay pits and a former Royal Infirmary site.
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Manchester Art GalleryVisit Manchester Art Gallery, born from the elite Royal Manchester Institution in 1823 and later a flashpoint for suffragettes who damaged artwork in 1913 to demand votes for women.
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Sackville GardensReflect in Sackville Gardens, a serene city oasis created in 1900 amid industrial decay, now home to memorials for Alan Turing, trans lives and HIV/AIDS victims—stand where Manchester’s defiant queer community turned prejudice into Pride and progress.
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St Peter's SquareStand in St Peter’s Square, formerly St Peter’s Field and site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where 60,000 peaceful reformers demanding democratic rights were sabred by cavalry—killing 18 and injuring hundreds in a bloody clash that ignited the working class fight for representation ntation.
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Statue Of Emmeline PankhurstPause before the striking bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square—known as ‘Rise up, Women’ or ‘Our Emmeline’—and learn how this fearless Manchester-born leader ignited militant protests, hunger strikes and global campaigns that shattered barriers to women’s suffrage.
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Radical Walking Tour of Manchester 20% OFF
Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom
$27.27
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they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
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