The Manchester Compendium

Jan 1, 2025 10:52 AM

Author:Ed Glinert

In the same format as the successful London Compendium, the Manchester Compendium relates the remarkable and diverse history of England's second city. Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage., Peterloo and Engel's treatise on the conditions of the working classes its political history and the Manchester Guardian and Factory Records its cultural and social history. From Thomas de Quincey to Alan Touring, Neville Cardus to Morrissey - all are part of the city's rich and fascinating past. Covering every area of human activity and incorporating all the great events and key moments in the city's history this will be a fresh and unique perspective on a great city.

Reviews

Books of the Year

—— Philip Ziegler , Spectator

Scurr has an important tale to tell, and she tells it judiciously

—— Lucy Hughes-Hallett , Sunday Times

Ruth Scurr's aim, in this well written first book, is to provide an accessible, up - to date biography that draws on all this work, and represents Robespierre as a human being rather than as a monster of legend. She succeeds impressively

—— Munro Price , Sunday Telegraph

This splendidly balanced account of an unbalanced mind proves that there are monsters of virtue as well as monsters of vice

—— Graham Robb , Daily Telegraph

It is judicious, balanced, and admirably clear at every point....It is quite the calmest and least abusive history of the Revolution you will ever read

—— Hilary Mantel , London Review of Books

Engaging and insightful biography... Scurr writes with sensitivity and clarity about this paradoxical individual

—— Scotland on Sunday

Ruth Scurr takes on one of the most enigmatic of historical figures in this thoroughly researched, well-written biography

—— Robin Buss , Independent on Sunday

Scurr brilliantly evokes the sheer speed and intensity of change after the fall of the Bastille

—— Rebecca Abrams , Guardian

Fascinating, chilling meditation on good intentions twisted into evil deeds

—— Independent on Sunday

This is a biography that will stimulate all those interested in the subject of state terror

—— Antonia Fraser , The Times

Fascinating

—— David V Barrett , Independent

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