Manchester City Centre Peace Trail No 2 – A Guided Walk
About this Event
A guided walk around parts of the Manchester Peace Trail, starting at the Turing Statue in Sackville Park at 10.45am for 11.00am. The accessible route will take us via HOME and the Peterloo Memorial, to finish in St Peter’s Square around 1.00pm.
On the way we will consider
- Alan Turing and gay rights
- Engels, Peterloo and the popular reform movement
- Lydia Becker, Margaret Ashton, the Suffragists and Suffragettes
- John Dalton, Ernest Rutherford and the nuclear time-line, free-thinking, education and science
- and the various peace and radical memorials in Central Library.
Join volunteer walk leader and peace activist Steve Roman for an illuminating and inspiring guided walk along parts of the Manchester Peace Trail. This walk complements the Literary & Philosophical Society walk he led in April.
Journeying through the Peace Trail will bring alive Manchester's history of research which was to lead to the development of the atom bomb. Also covered will be its radical history, its growth as the world’s first industrial city and its importance as a centre for peace, tolerance and the promotion of social justice in the city and around the globe. Buildings and locations will gain new meanings as we learn about their peace history and the relevance for social justice movements. www.discoverpeace.eu
The guide is donating his fee to charity
Location
Meet at 10:45am at the Turing Statue in Sackville Park.
Where is it happening?
GBP 11.55
