Manchester : city of culture -- Calico connections : science, manufacture and culture in mid-nineteenth-century Manchester -- Counting the coppers : John Jennison and the Belle Vue Zoological Gardens -- Manufacturing the Renaissance : modern merchant princes and the origins of the Manchester Dante Society -- The image of a well-ordered city : nineteenth-century Manchester architecture and the urban spectator -- 'He saw the city and wept' : the Manchester and Salford Methodist Mission 1910-60 -- A case of comsmopolitanism : the Manchester International Club -- Cultue, participation and identity in contemporary Manchester -- Class conflict on the myth of cultural 'inclusion' in modern Manchester
Summary
This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution