The ‘beautiful and unusual’ Tigon – a tiger, lion cross – that people flocked to the city to see in the 1940s is going on display at the Manchester Museum after 65 years in storage.

Just half a mile out of town is Altrincham Retail Park – yet another boring concrete metropolis with shops no different from anywhere else in the country. But there’s a twist: it’s the Queen’s.

A compilation of forgotten songs from Manchester’s Industrial Revolution will be revisited and re-mastered on a night that will pay homage to the city’s historic music publishing industry next month.

Manchester is to make history this September as it sets to pioneer the first ever ‘Bio-Historic Banquet’ at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival.

Pepys wrote in his famous diary of the girl born in 1662 whose paternal parentage has been unknown until now.

Fake animal mummies have been discovered by University of Manchester scientists during a scanning mission to unravel the dark secrets behind Ancient Egypt’s mummifying industry.

This year marks the 800th anniversary of one of the most important moments in English history.

Archaeologists from the University of Manchester are continuing to defy Islamic State militant efforts to ‘culturally cleanse’ Iraq by making new discoveries near the ancient city of Ur.

Kids from six Salford primary schools are combining their efforts to perform an opera about the history of the UK’s first canal and the key role the city’s waterways have played in the growth and industrialisation of the country.

An incredibly rare, 300-year-old cello is being loaned to a Manchester orchestra to celebrate their first performance at the newly refurbished Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) Concert Hall.

To celebrate LGBT History Month, MM talk to LGBT figures from across Greater Manchester about their experiences of coming out and what progress they think the city still has to make towards equality.