our semester 1 visit to Manchester took place last week, and (I think) we had an interesting time...although I forgot how long the walk was from the tram stop to the Imperial War Museum North (and I forgot it was November!)...but anyway, apart from also taking in Urbis and Manchester City Art Gallery....(here are the students in the entrance hall).....
we also considered the City of Manchester itself as a 'Museum'; rather sadly, my 'surprise' visit on the tour of Manchester as a city of Radicalism (the site of the Peterloo Massacre/Women's Suffrage/Birth of Marxism)..........(here's the commemorativeplaque marking the site of Peterloo)................was somewhat ironically usurped by the face of modern consumerism in the guise of a 20 foot high Santa on Manchester Town Hall, (and which the student's thought was the 'surprise'....which surprised me!)
......one could say, (if one adopted a Scrooge-like position) that one is a signifier of resistance (albeit now somewhat denuded of its power through its 'heritization'), the other a potent signifier of blissful apathy.....but then that would be just be churlish!Anyway, 'holidays are coming, holidays are coming' (irony)
Mark
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