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www.archivesplus.org www.gmcro.co.uk{defunct} The Greater Manchester County Record Office ( GMCRO ) is an archive of primary materials relating to the heritage of Greater Manchester , in North West England ; it is located in Manchester city centre , in Archives + [ 2 ] in Manchester's Central Library .
[1] It was founded in 1964 in Manchester and became a registered charity in 1984. The Society is one of the oldest and largest family history societies in the United Kingdom. [2] [3] It is run by an Executive Committee elected by the Members. The Society, with several branches (Oldham and District, Bolton and District and Anglo-Scottish ...
Manchester Archives and Local Studies; Manchester Digital Music Archive; Media Archive for Central England; Medway Archives, Strood; Mills Archive, Reading; Modern Records Centre, near Coventry; The National Archives [of the United Kingdom], Kew; National Co-operative Archive, Manchester; National Jazz Archive, Loughton, Essex; National Gas ...
The history of local government in England is one of gradual change and evolution since the Middle Ages. England has never possessed a formal written constitution, with the result that modern administration (and the judicial system) is based on precedent, and is derived from administrative powers granted (usually by the Crown) to older systems, such as that of the shires.
Manchester has a thriving theatre, opera and dance scene, with a number of large performance venues, including Manchester Opera House, which feature large-scale touring shows and West End productions; the Palace Theatre; and the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester's former cotton exchange, which is the largest theatre in the round in the UK.
Manchester was the subject of Friedrich Engels' The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, Engels himself spending much of his life in and around Manchester. Manchester was also an important cradle of the Labour Party and the Suffragette Movement. [citation needed] Manchester's golden age was perhaps the last quarter of the 19th ...
The Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) is a photo archive founded in 1985 and held at the Greater Manchester County Record Office by Manchester City Council.The archive captures aspects of the people and places of the Greater Manchester region in the UK and includes over 100,000 images from family albums and elsewhere, from the 1840s to the 1950s. [1]
10 October: The first street charity collection in the UK is held in Manchester in aid of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. [79] 1892 – 2 October: Manchester Crematorium opens adjacent to the Southern Cemetery, the UK's second crematory. 1893 3 August: Status of Lord Mayor conferred on the mayoralties of Manchester and Liverpool. [80]