Two City of Literature Tours
11am Sunday 16 October - part one, Oxford Road, All Saints, First Street
10.30am Thursday 20 October - part two, Cathedral, St Ann's Square, St Peter's Square
FREE: please book by emailing me on event@jonathanschofieldtours.com
This event has been sponsored by City of Literature for Manchester Literary Festival
Part one - 11am Sunday 16 October
Words, wonderful words. This tour of Manchester will be laden and laced with entertaining and informative tales from a city bulging with stories. The tour will feature Manchester-born and Manchester-adopted writers – plus some who simply passed through but couldn't help commenting.
We’re not just talking poets and novelists either but artists, actors, politicians and musicians all of whom employed the power of the word. Those linguistical flourishes have come from the pens and mouths of individuals such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Anthony Burgess, Ewan McColl, Howard Jacobson, Len Johnson, Joseph Knox, Christabel Pankhurst, Carol Ann Duffy and others past and present. Expect well-known quotes but expect the unexpected too.
Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. M2 5PD.
Finish: HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place. M15 4FN.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Fully accessible
Words, wonderful words. This tour of Manchester will be laden and laced with entertaining and informative tales from a city bulging with stories. The tour will feature Manchester-born and Manchester-adopted writers – plus some who simply passed through but couldn't help commenting.
We’re not just talking poets and novelists either but artists, actors, politicians and musicians all of whom employed the power of the word. Those linguistical flourishes have come from the pens and mouths of individuals such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Friedrich Engels, Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Anthony Burgess, Ewan McColl, Howard Jacobson, Len Johnson, Joseph Knox, Christabel Pankhurst, Carol Ann Duffy and others past and present. Expect well-known quotes but expect the unexpected too.
Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. M2 5PD.
Finish: HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place. M15 4FN.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Fully accessible
Part two - Cathedral Gardens, St Ann's Square, St Peter's Square
Rich phrasing, brutal honesty, emotion and anger plus wit and humour will illuminate this tour examining Manchester’s relationship with words, written, spoken and sung. The tour begins where modern Manchester evolved out of a small medieval town, at Chetham’s, and wends its way to Central Library.
As with the earlier tour on Sunday 16 October the tour will feature Manchester-born and Manchester-adopted writers – plus some who simply passed through but couldn't help commenting.
This time among the wordsmiths featured there might be Thomas Clarkson, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas de Quincey, Sam Bamford, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Becker, CP Scott, Emmeline Pankhurst, Maisie Mosco, Shelagh Delaney, Hilary Mantel, John Cooper Clarke, Lemn Sissay.
Again, expect the unexpected, as we visit buildings inside and outside.
Meet: Outside Chetham’s Library entrance
Finish: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. M2 5PD.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Fully accessible
FREE: please book by emailing me on event@jonathanschofieldtours.com
This event has been sponsored by City of Literature for Manchester Literary Festival
Rich phrasing, brutal honesty, emotion and anger plus wit and humour will illuminate this tour examining Manchester’s relationship with words, written, spoken and sung. The tour begins where modern Manchester evolved out of a small medieval town, at Chetham’s, and wends its way to Central Library.
As with the earlier tour on Sunday 16 October the tour will feature Manchester-born and Manchester-adopted writers – plus some who simply passed through but couldn't help commenting.
This time among the wordsmiths featured there might be Thomas Clarkson, Benjamin Disraeli, Thomas de Quincey, Sam Bamford, Frederick Douglass, Lydia Becker, CP Scott, Emmeline Pankhurst, Maisie Mosco, Shelagh Delaney, Hilary Mantel, John Cooper Clarke, Lemn Sissay.
Again, expect the unexpected, as we visit buildings inside and outside.
Meet: Outside Chetham’s Library entrance
Finish: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. M2 5PD.
Duration: 1.5 hours
Fully accessible
FREE: please book by emailing me on event@jonathanschofieldtours.com
This event has been sponsored by City of Literature for Manchester Literary Festival