City Talks: ‘What Manchester thinks today, the world does tomorrow’

Andrew Carter, executive director of the Center for Cities, is joined by Brian Groom, author and journalist, whose latest book is Made in Manchester: A popular history of the city that shaped the modern world. The Victorians had a saying: “What Manchester thinks today, the world does tomorrow.” Brian discusses the city’s external global image and the web of conflicting political, economic and cultural associations it has had throughout its history.

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Listen to the Center for Cities’ previous conversation with Brian Groom on City Talks for a discussion of his previous work, The Nordics: A History from the Ice Age to the Present.