Social History

How his case was a catalyst for others speaking out – by Clare Crabb, NSPCC Assistant Director for the North West

A botanical guide to the flowering plants, ferns, mosses and algæ, found indigenous within sixteen miles of Manchester...

Who were they? What did they achieve and what were they doing in the Railway and Naturalist pub?

UNISON, biggest public sector trade union in the country owes its formation, in part to Prestwich Hospital staff...

Local historical collector, Craig Brisbane, has amassed an amazing collection of items relating to Prestwich Hospital...

After the hospital’s Doctor Montagu Lomax published his book, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor in 1921, the country changed its attitude towards people with mental health problems...

Interviews with ex-staff from the hospital shine a light on some gruesome goings on...

What is it? What did it change? And just how important is the hospital that led to improved care for the whole country and was instrumental in the beginnings of the trade union movement?

Royal Mail workers in Prestwich and BT workers in Sedgley strike as Manchester Cathedral hosts Enough Is Enough rally...

After 600 years, Manchester Cathedral still making a huge contribution to Greater Manchester life...