It's Finally Looking Like Spring!

It’s been a long time since we were last in touch, and we hope your 2024 is getting off to an excellent start.

This year we’re not only planning on running more of our Stone and Water tours, but we are hoping to debut a new Air Tour (name tbd!) at the Manchester Histories Festival at start of June. In the meantime we will be busy researching and writing everything to do with Manchester’s air (from pollution to pigeons) and thinking up the perfect tour route to package it in.

We are also looking into setting up a stall at the Histories Festival Celebration Day on the 9th of June. If we do, see if you can drop by! Erica will be in Manchester so it will be a rare chance to see both of us in the same place.

In the meantime we have some new tour dates for Stone and Water in March and April:

Saturday 30th March at 1pm: "More than a Foul Drain": A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Water

Sunday 31st March at 1pm: "If Stones Could Talk": A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

Saturday 20th April at 1pm: "More than a Foul Drain": A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Water

Sunday 21st April at 1pm: "If Stones Could Talk": A Historical Walking Tour of Manchester's Stone

Stone tour eventbrite link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/if-stones-could-talk-a-historical-walking-tour-of-manchesters-stone-tickets-710310787687

Water tour eventbrite link here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/more-than-a-foul-drain-a-historical-walking-tour-of-manchesters-water-tickets-710335822567

And if you’re in the market for another read on environmental history, check out Erica’s review of Nature’s Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present here:

Books

Book Recommendation: Nature's Mutiny

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January 24, 2024

What does cold weather have to do with the gorgeous tones of a Stradivarius violin? Perhaps everything… Europe was a colder place when Antonio Stradivari was crafting his famous violins at the beginning of the 18th century. The severe winters and shortened growing seasons of that era meant that trees grew more slowly and therefore tree rings formed close…