Anglistik Excursion 2013: Manchester and N-W England
Anglistik excursion: 10-19 Sept. 2013 Join us for a week in and around this fascinating, dynamic city.
- Join a project group and explore a topic of your choice.
- Visit Marx and Engel’s old rendezvous in Chetham’s, Europe’s first free public lending library.
- Marvel at what Manchester has made of its former cotton mills and warehouses.
- Get some peace and quiet at the medieval Cathedral.
- Shop till you drop.
- Browse round excellent museums (some free!).
- Watch one of the English Premier League’s top two clubs.
- Check out Salford Quays: futuristic regeneration of old docklands, with the Lowry arts centre, Imperial War Museum North and MediaCityUK (close to our accommodation).
Trip information
- Flight from Cologne/Bonn, return by coach and overnight ferry
- Accommodation in single rooms at the University of Salford
- Day trips to the spectacular Peak District National Park (England’s first) and the beautiful North Wales coast
- Choice of extra trips to nearby Liverpool or Chester
- Cost: ca. 460 EUR (accomodation, coach, flight and ferry, excluding food)
Application
To apply for participation on this trip, please contact Phil Mothershaw-Rogalla (pmmothershaw@googlemail.com) and you will receive further information.
About Manchester
What Manchester does today, the world does tomorrow.
Ever heard old folks talking about “Manchester-Hose”? – a good clue as to what Manchester was once all about. “Cottonopolis” they called it in the 19th century: the world’s first industrial city, dominated by huge cotton mills and warehouses, exporting textiles all over the world.
“Where there’s muck, there’s money” – a good old north-country saying. And Manchester has had its share of both. With the wealth and upheaval of the Industrial Revolution came exploitation of the workers and unhealthily overcrowded slum housing. No surprise, then, that Manchester gained a reputation for radicalism. The founding of Emmeline Pankhurst’s suffragette movement, the killing of 15 political reformers at the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, the founding of the Trade Union Congress, legendary visits by Marx and Engels all put Manchester at the forefront of political radicalism.
But the list of Manchester firsts is much longer – from steam-powered cotton mills to votes for women, from electro-magnets to splitting the atom, from first computer to first inter-city passenger railway, from first waterproof raincoat (mackintosh) to first canal in Britain – and with Manchester United the first English football club to win the European Cup! Not forgetting the UK’s longest running TV soap, Coronation Street.
Transformed by a rebuilding programme that puts it in the vanguard of modern British urban design, Manchester today surprises many first-time visitors with its top-class attractions, such as the impressive Gothic Town Hall, the Bohemian Northern Quarter, Chinatown or the famous Gay Village, the world-famous Halle orchestra (with German connection!), excellent theatres and cinemas and a thriving café and club scene, which services its 90,000 resident students.
What’s more, on Manchester’s doorstep you’ll find some of the finest countryside in the UK.
So what are you waiting for?
Places limited, so don’t delay!