Jonathan Schofield Manchester Tours

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'Thanks for your knowledge, wit and passion for the subject,' Michael Portillo.

Buy three beautiful Mcr books by Jonathan Schofleld here.
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Discussing the Manchester Bee on Radio 5 Live here.

You can read a profile of Jonathan Schofield here in The Guardian.

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  • December seven day city centre series
  • Tour Diary: Confessions of a guide
  • Every tour in pictures and some words
  • Ghost tours - spooks guaranteed
  • Exclusive: 35 King St & Georgian Manchester
  • EXCLUSIVE: Mayfield Station tours
  • Heaton Hall and Park Tour
  • The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
  • Suffragettes, Women & Manchester
  • Totally Manchester - a general tour of the city
  • Whalley Range & Alexandra Park
  • EXCLUSIVE: Refuge/ Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Boldest Building' Tour, Edgar Wood Centre
  • Secret Tunnels Tour
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  • EXCLUSIVE: Chetham's Library and College House
  • EXCLUSIVE Hallé St Peter’s & Ancoats Tour NEW
  • Manchester books by Jonathan Schofield
  • The Death & Beer Tour for the Not Quite Light Festival
  • First Wednesday Spinningfields Series 2020
  • Oxford Road Corridor/ University district tour
  • Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
  • Castlefield & Britannia Basin
  • Didsbury, Kersal, Quays tours
  • Bombed & Besieged: Manchester at War
  • The Prestwich Tour: The surprising Manchester series
  • Some Published Articles On Manchester's Present, its Heritage and Tourism
  • The Northern Quarter & Ancoats Tour
  • Friedrich Engels And Karl Marx Tours
  • ​Chorlton tour
  • The Rollicking Pub Tour
  • The Surprising Manchester Series: Old Trafford
  • The Surprising Manchester Series: Bradford & Clayton
  • EXCLUSIVE: Kampus tours, the abandoned warehouses
  • Magical Manchester Mystery Tour - by bike
  • Incredible Interiors
  • Chapel Street and The Irwell: The Tour
  • The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
  • Shock, Surprise, Prose & Verse: Manchester and Literature
  • April Fool's Day Tour - The Incredibly Serious Tour
  • Ford Madox Brown and Pre-Raphaelite Manchester
  • The Day The World Got Smaller Tour
  • Platt Fields, Birch Fields and Rusholme Tour
  • Podcasts
  • Peterloo Massacre: The Reality & The Drama
  • Lost Graveyards and the Dead
  • Truly Madly Brutal
  • The Impossible Bridge and the Improbable Hill - River Irk Valley
  • Return to 1421: The Old Towne and Medieval Manchester
  • City of Science Tours July 2016
  • Suggested Private Tours
  • The River at Dusk - Friday 18 May
  • Literary Manchester: A city in words
  • Anthony Burgess and Literary Manchester Tour
  • Great Northern Tunnel Tour
  • 1840s Manchester: The Key Decade, talk and tour
  • Burns Night Tour Monday 25 January
  • Fire Station Tours: Calling Photographers & Sketchers
  • Manchester City of Art Tour
  • Valentine's Day tour 14 February
  • Manchester Statues, 20 July
  • The Gallery
  • Irk Valley Tour. Sweet Air, Scuttlers, Lost Churches and Hidden Stories
  • Tours deals 2 for £20, 3 for £30
  • The Ghosts of Afflecks & the Northern Quarter
TOURS NEWS

Under third lockdown rules guided tours cannot go ahead. 
CLICK HERE for a calendar of upcoming tours. There are foot on the ground walking tours for later in the year BUT Zoom tours are available right now.


'I'd pay to go on a tour of my own flat if Jonathan Schofield were doing the tour. I know it would be entertaining and I'd find out stuff I didn't previously know.' Graham Fairclough, 30 August 2020.


“Every year, students flock to Manchester from across the UK (and the globe) to experience the city; Jonathan’s tour was easily the best and most diverting ‘welcome week’ introduction to it I can imagine. Over two hours, he took us on a detailed survey of the physical, social, cultural and temporal landscape of a settlement with Roman origins but that only really came to the world’s attention as the first purpose-built capitalist city, with all that entails. Jonathan wears his learning lightly – he is always very accessible – but shows a real depth and breadth of knowledge; I learned a huge amount despite being something of a local history buff myself, and you get the feeling that he has at least another half-days’ worth of material to tailor to the audience’s needs. He speaks at a good pace and frequently checks back to answer questions. I could listen to him all day!” Jon Shute, 28 November 2020

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Here's my favourite quote about Manchester in its nascent industrial days from Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1875. Its meaning is self-evident and although it refers to science the sentiment applies to every other field of endeavour. 

‘Men, however great their learning often become indolent and unambitious to improve in knowledge for want of associating with others of similar talents and improvements. But science, like fire, is put in motion by collision. Where a number of such men have frequent opportunities of meeting and conversing together, thought begets thought, and every hint is turned to advantage. A spirit of enquiry glows in every breast.’


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