Non-Boring History

Non-Boring History

It's Grim Up North?

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Meet Manchester, the World's First Industrial City That's Industrial No More (but may still be a bit grim)

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Annette Laing
May 27, 2023
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Painting showing early Manchester viewed from the countryside, with sheep, looking to dozens of factory chimneys under a smog cloud
This grey, unpleasant land seen from beautiful countryside: Manchester in 1750 had been a pretty village in the country. Within a century, it …

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