We are delighted to relaunch the Manchester Region History Review, with Volume 1 of this new edition. Many thanks to Dr Craig Horner for putting this together, as well as our authors and editorial board.

Alison Ronan

From First World War Conscientious Objection to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament: re-imagining two ‘ordinary’ anti-war activists in Manchester

Peter Wadsworth

Strawberry Studios of Stockport and its role in Manchester music

Tracey May Boyce

‘Seeing is deceiving’: the lost Manchester Diorama, 1825-7

Richard Bond

The family of the radical boroughreeve, Thomas Walker (senior) of Longford

Chris Makepeace

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