Everything you ever wanted to know about the history of everywhere, was launched four years ago on Facebook as a place to catch up on all the days blog stories.*
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| Manchester, 2017 |
The title owed something to a Woody Allen film, and it has ticked away happily, read by family, friends, and next doors cat.
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| London, 1979 |
But recently it has attracted a surge of new members which pretty much come from all the continents, save the one where the penguins live, although I don’t rule out the possibility of a visiting Norwegian scientist dabbling in stories as diverse as the Black Death, the poems of Catullus, pictures of Rome and Warsaw, and the discoveries to be made in a garden centre.
Most of the new members come from North America, and many of those are spread out across the USA.
Just what has sparked the interest of so many will of course be debated long into the night by experts of social media, bored undergraduates, and Eric from Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
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| Flixton, 2021 |
There is no doubting the range of stories or the scholarship that has gone into many of them, added to which there is that element of the bizarre which pitches, an exploration of the mean streets of that “shock city of the Industrial Revolution”** which was Manchester in the 1850s to the best place to eat pizza in Naples, follows the story of British Home Children migrated to Canada in the 19th century with discussions on the growing level of antisemitism, and just how should we deal with the relics of our Imperialist past, and heaps of silly stories.
Location; everywhere
Pictures; walking through Manchester, 2017, Walking the River, London, 1978, Fun amongst the Flowers, 2021, from the collection of Andrew Simpson, Fun amongst the Flowers, 2021
*Chorlton History, https://chorltonhistory.blogspot.com/
**Victorian Cities, Asa Briggs, 1963
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