Wealthy doctors, engineers and working class people all lived in the "slums" of Victorian era Manchester, new research has revealed. The study by Cambridge University Historian, Emily Chung, used data ...

Michael Kay has had a keen eye for character portrait photography since he was a student. His new book documenting Manchester in the early 1970s includes many fascinating examples of his art set ...

Captured forever in poignant black and white photographs, these new images have emerged documenting the hardship and joys of street life in Manchester more than 50 years ago. Shirley Baker was the ...

My guest today, Diana Mitlin, is a professor of global urbanism at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester. Much of her work focuses on issues surrounding informal urban ...