Manchester Protests

by Counter-mapping · Manchester · 15 stations · 11:49 min · 14.92 km · Walk

1. 2024 - (race) riots - Holiday Inn

0:53 min · 2024 - (race) riots On the evening of 31 July, a group of approximately 40 demonstrators gathered outside a Holiday Inn in Manchester, which was pu...

2.44 km

2. 1779 - Luddite movement - Beswick Street

0:54 min · 1779 - Luddite movement Textile workers rebel against the introduction of machinery which threatened their skilled craft - 1826, directed against p...

2.9 km

3. 1990 - Strange ways prison riot

0:56 min · 1990 - Strange ways prison riot

1826 m

4. 1931 - The Battle of Bexley Square

0:55 min · 1931 - The Battle of Bexley Square

1135 m

5. 1867 - First permanent women’s suffrage society - Jackson's Row

0:35 min · 1867 - First permanent women's suffrage society formed to obtain the same rights for women to vote for Members of Parliament as those granted to me...

108 m

6. 1903 - Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) - Free Trade Hall

0:53 min · 1903 - Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) - Established in a meeting at the Free Trade Hall

156 m

7. 2021 - The People’s Assembly march against the Conservative party conference MCCC

0:36 min · 2021 - Conservative party conference The People’s Assembly march against the incumbent political party began at Whitworth Park, on Oxford Road, and...

212 m

8. 1819 - Peterloo Massacre - St Peter's Square

0:57 min · 1819 - Peterloo Massacre

199 m

9. 1913 - Suffragettes attack on Manchester Art Gallery

0:44 min · 1913 - Attack on Manchester Art Gallery The site of the first attack on artworks by suffragettes. On 3 April Lillian Forrester, Annie Briggs and Ev...

364 m

10. 1988 - Section 28 protests - Albert Square

0:54 min · 1988 - Section 28 protests a series of laws across Britain that prohibited the “promotion of homosexuality” by local authorities It caused many org...

333 m

11. 1821 - Manchester Guardian - Market Street

0:51 min · 1821 - Manchester Guardian Formed as a response to the Peterloo Massacre thriving in the space vacated by the more radical Guardian Observer which ...

596 m

12. 2020 - George Floyd protests - Piccadilly Gardens

0:46 min · 2020 - George Floyd protests

2.79 km

13. 1981 - Moss Side riots - Moss Side Police Station

0:56 min · 1981 - Moss Side riots Fuelled by mass unemployment and racial tension, particularly between local youths and the police.

954 m

14. Whitworth Park

Whitworth Park a common meeting place for protesters Show here the Hands Off Gaza – Demonstration & March

907 m

15. Pankhurst Centre

0:59 min · The Pankhurst Centre is the birthplace of the suffragette movement.

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