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Founder of an international organisation to encourage research into the rare genetic disorder Prader-Willi syndrome

The Guardian - UK · 3h ago

LS Lowry painting bought for £10 in 1926 sold for £805,200 after 99 years

An LS Lowry painting sold for over £805,000 at an auction after nearly a century in a family collection. Arthur Wallace, a British newspaper editor, purchased it for just £10 back in 1926. The painting, known as Going to the Mill, was created in 1925 and reflects Lowry's artistic focus…

The Times of India · Oct 12

Study explores links between 19th-century Manchester workers and enslaved Africans in Caribbean

Global Threads research project reveals how slavery hung ‘like a spectre’ over the Peterloo massacre and other Mancunian struggles for equality

The Guardian - UK · Oct 10

Christmas in wartime: how Britain coped with the 'bleak midwinter' of 1942

On Christmas Eve 1942, the Manchester Guardian recalled that the first world war had only lasted four Christmases. Now, Hitler’s war also had “four to its discredit, each one more austere than its predecessor”. Christmas 1942 would be a sadly pared-back affair. Cards were tiny and printed on thin card.…

The Conversation · Dec 20, 2022

'I walked the River Irwell for a year - and discovered something incredible'

The M.E.N's Neal Keeling traces artist Liam Spencer's odyssey

Manchester Evening News · Oct 23, 2022

Media deference to the royals must have a limit – just look at how Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were treated

Britain’s period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth underlined the reverence with which many in the UK regard the royal family. Intense and mainly loyal coverage by broadcasters and newspapers took pains to remind us that some of history’s most deplorable regimes were republics and that monarchs…

The Conversation · Sep 21, 2022