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Discover Manchester’s revolutionary history on a 2-hour walking tour that reveals the city’s role as a hub of radical activity. This engaging tour takes you through the heart of Manchester, known for its football and music, while exploring tales of resistance and the working-class spirit. Meet at the iconic Manchester Cathedral and delve into the stories of those who shaped the city’s identity. Ideal for students and history enthusiasts, this tour operates daily at 10:30 AM and 2 PM, providing a unique perspective on Manchester’s past. - 2-hour guided walking tour focusing on Manchester's radical history - Explore significant sites related to the Industrial Revolution - Meet at Manchester Cathedral for an immersive experience - Available daily with special rates for students and concessions

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Meeting point

Cathedral Street, England, M3 1SW, United Kingdom

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Meet by the Lady Chapel entrance on Cathedral street, next to the Love Bee. Your guide will be wearing a Rebel Tours badge.

Language Offered

English-GUIDE

Itinerary

1. Manchester Cathedral

Manchester Cathedral, once dominated by the city’s elites, discover how this medieval church sat at the heart of a rapidly industrialising town where wealth, power and poverty collided.

Duration: 10 mins

2. Chetham's Library

Step inside Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in the country, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels studied Manchester’s slums and began shaping ideas that would fuel revolutionary movements.

Duration: 5 mins

3. Corn Exchange Manchester

Visit the Corn Exchange, once a bustling hub for grain traders and fiery Anti–Corn Law League meetings, and learn how struggles over food prices, free trade and working‑class survival shaped Victorian Manchester before the building’s reinvention as today’s dining arcade.

Duration: 5 mins

4. Royal Exchange Theatre

Admire the Royal Exchange, a grand Victorian symbol of Manchester's commercial might, and uncover its radical underbelly where merchants debated free trade radicals rallied against exploitation in the world's first industrial city.

Duration: 5 mins

5. Manchester Arndale

Explore the Arndale Centre, Europe’s largest shopping mall when opened in 1972, and uncover displaced communities, gentrification and the devastating 1996 IRA bombing that tested Manchester’s resilience and led to its regeneration.

Duration: 10 mins

6. Piccadilly Gardens

Piccadilly Gardens, a bustling city-centre public space reborn from clay pits and a former Royal Infirmary site.

Duration: 5 mins

7. Manchester Art Gallery

Visit Manchester Art Gallery, born from the elite Royal Manchester Institution in 1823 and later a flashpoint for suffragettes who damaged artwork in 1913 to demand votes for women.

Duration: 5 mins

8. Sackville Gardens

Reflect in Sackville Gardens, a serene city oasis created in 1900 amid industrial decay, now home to memorials for Alan Turing, trans lives and HIV/AIDS victims—stand where Manchester’s defiant queer community turned prejudice into Pride and progress.

Duration: 7 mins

9. St Peter's Square

Stand in St Peter’s Square, formerly St Peter’s Field and site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where 60,000 peaceful reformers demanding democratic rights were sabred by cavalry—killing 18 and injuring hundreds in a bloody clash that ignited the working class fight for representation ntation.

Duration: 10 mins

10. Statue Of Emmeline Pankhurst

Pause before the striking bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square—known as ‘Rise up, Women’ or ‘Our Emmeline’—and learn how this fearless Manchester-born leader ignited militant protests, hunger strikes and global campaigns that shattered barriers to women’s suffrage.

Duration: 5 mins

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Cancellation Policy

Refundable tickets

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

100% refund if cancelled 1+ days before the start date
0% refund if cancelled less than 1 day(s) before the start date

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller

Service animals allowed

Public transportation options are available nearby

All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible

Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Supplied by Rebel Tours Manchester

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1. Manchester Cathedral

2. Chetham's Library

3. Corn Exchange Manchester

4. Royal Exchange Theatre

5. Manchester Arndale

6. Piccadilly Gardens

7. Manchester Art Gallery

8. Sackville Gardens

9. St Peter's Square

10. Statue Of Emmeline Pankhurst

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