Take a guided walk around Manchester's scientific and industrial past

01 Jun 2016

Three tours as part of Manchester Histories Festival this weekend

The 2016 Manchester Histories Festival begins this weekend, and members of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine are contributing to three guided walks around the city.

On Saturday, 4 June, Dr James Sumner will be leading a tour of Castlefield, exploring the growth and working life of the Liverpool Road freight complex which connected Manchester industry with the wider world, with new research from a project developed with colleagues from the Museum of Science and Industry.

Later that day, we’ll be marking the 250th anniversary of the birth of John Dalton with a city-centre tour covering the sites of the experiments that inspired the modern atomic theory, the teaching that gave Dalton his modest livelihood, and the memorials that Manchester raised to its first scientific celebrity.

On Sunday, 5 June, our postgraduate students will be among the presenters for Stories of Women in Science, a walking tour of local sites organised by Manchester Girl Geeks.

Further information

For more information, please see the Manchester Histories Festival web pages:

More information about the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine is available from the CHSTM website.