Social History

...Will the prison still be there? Can they really bulldoze the dodgy warehouses?

Alevai North Manchester Yiddish film goes online

A packed premiere at Manchester Jewish Museum

North Manchester Yiddish Dictionary and Film Premiere

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...