The statue is now in Tony Wilson Place in an area that in Engel’s time had been known as ‘Little Ireland,’ among the most notorious of Manchester’s slums.

Engels lived right here in Manchester for several decades, the city where his radical philosophies were truly born.

A Salford venue has been threatened with closure after one resident complained about the building being too noisy.

Manchester has twinned with a number of cities or towns over the years.

Jenny Hval brings her unique brand of experimental electronic pop to Manchester’s Soup Kitchen this Tuesday, as she tours her new album Blood Bitch.

Buy Art Fair, famed for bringing hundreds of galleries, artists, talks, tours and workshops to Old Granada Studios, has announced that the Royal Academy of Art will be exhibiting for the first time.

Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground showcases the prolific work and global influence of the Lancashire-born writer, artist, musician, author and publisher, who died in 2004.

A one-off event will combine a club night with live performance art to celebrate the start of summer.

A portrait of Sir Winston Churchill signed by the former Prime Minister himself has gone on public display at Manchester’s National Football Museum.

Origins tells the biblical tale of brothers Cain and Abel, and the world’s first murder.

A co-operative coffee shop in Salford is aiming to become the ‘counterculture’ to modern society by creating a community arts and social space.