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2 unusual facts about Manchester school


Manchester school

Manchester capitalism, a socio-economic and political movement of the 19th century

The Manchester School (New Music Manchester), group of composers and performers in 1950s in Manchester, England


Allan Monkhouse

He began to write drama for the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, shortly after it was opened by Annie Horniman, along with Stanley Houghton and Harold Brighouse, forming a school of realist dramatists independent of the London stage, who were known as the Manchester School.


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Manchester capitalism

The great champions of the "Manchester School" were Richard Cobden and John Bright.

Max Gluckman

Richard Werbner, who married Gluckman's niece, assumed the role of continuing Gluckman's legacy at the Manchester school after his 1975 death.

New Music Manchester

The Manchester School is principally identified with the composers Harrison Birtwistle, Peter Maxwell Davies and Alexander Goehr, and together with the pianist John Ogdon and the conductor and trumpeter Elgar Howarth they formed the group New Music Manchester.

Sackville Street Building

Construction of the building for the Manchester School of Technology began in 1895 on a site formerly occupied by Sir Joseph Whitworth's engineering works; it was opened in 1902 by the then Prime Minister, Arthur Balfour.

Walter Dorning Beckton

Beckton was one of the Manchester School of philately which advocated the scientific study of all aspects of stamp production including paper, watermark, printing and perforation.

William Romaine Callender

He was elected as a member of the first Manchester School Board in 1870, and in 1874 as one of three members of parliament for the Parliamentary Borough of Manchester, defeating the Liberal MP, Jacob Bright.