November 2013 – Page 3 – Manchester Historian

Ben Beach visits the People’s History Museum to review their new exhibition celebrating 150 years of the Co-Operative.

Helen Fielding discussed her greatly anticipated new novel at the Royal Exchange during the Manchester Literature Festival. Caroline Bishop reflects on Austen, pants and nineties heartthrobs.

Kate Curtis interviews Tony Korris who graduated from Manchester with a degree in Politics and Modern History in 1966.

Alice Rigby looks at the endurance of bread from the Bible to the Bake Off.

One of the more controversial solutions to the energy problem is nuclear energy. Tom Oliver discusses how nuclear went from being a weapon to a resource.