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Brian Groom

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Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' (2024) and bestselling 'Northerners: A History' (2022).

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Aug 28

My books 'Made in Manchester: A People's History of the City That Shaped the Modern World' and 'Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day' available in paperback and hardback, from bookshops and websites. Publisher: @harpernorth.bsky.social

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3h

Kirkby-born Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Adolescence star Stephen Graham launches global project asking fathers to write to their sons

The Emmy-winning actor will work with psychologist Orly Klein to compile the letters into a book exploring masculinity and the challenges facing boys today

www.theguardian.com

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3h

Tomorrow evening, all welcome.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Aug 20

I'll be talking about 'Made in Manchester' at Audlem and District History Society, Cheshire, on Thursday October 16th, 7.30pm. Scout and Guide Hall, Cheshire Street. Visitors welcome, £4.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 3h

Library Vibes, Manchester, 2021, painting by Cathy Read. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 8h

Massive audience for Frankie Goes to Hollywood at the GMex centre, Manchester, January 1987. (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h

Who needs a climbing wall? Outside the Black-E Arts Centre, Liverpool, 1973, photo by Neil Libbert.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h

The body of a Comet aircraft from the nearby de Havilland factory turns into Bridge Street, Chester, 1950s.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h

An Autumn Lane, 1886, painting by Leeds-born John Atkinson Grimshaw (private collection). #NorthernArt

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h

L.S. Lowry at home, photo by his favourite photographer, Sefton Samuels.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9h

Tynemouth, Northumberland, photo by Rachel Riley.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 19h

No I didn't.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 25d

I’ve signed lots of paperback copies of ‘Made in Manchester’ and ‘Northerners’ at the lovely Waterstones Trafford Centre.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Lumb Hole Falls, near Hebden Bridge, west Yorkshire, photo by Tilly Jaye Horseman, travel blogger.

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Stockport Indoor Market, December 1978 (Mirrorpix/@manchestereveningnews.co.uk).

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Gerry @atw1062.bsky.social · 1d

@groomb.bsky.social Cheers Bri

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you enjoy it, Gerry!

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

This evening, all welcome.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · Aug 21

I'll be talking about 'Manchester Portraits: Key Figures from the Region's Past' at Altrincham History Society, Tues 14th October, 7.30pm. Altrincham Conservative Club, 24 Market Street. Visitors welcome, £2. (Painting: Old Market Place, by Liz Taylor.)

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Homing Pigeons, painting by Philip Meadows, Teesside artist. #NorthernArt

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Ivar Aune @ivaraune.bsky.social · 1d

Ordered Made in Manchester!

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Hope you enjoy it, Ivar!

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Manchester, 1966, photo by Shirley Baker.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Skipton, Yorkshire, painting by Linda Mellin. #WomensArt

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

Jolly Angler, Manchester (sadly closed in 2020), painting by Seanna Doonan. Artwork for The McGoldrick Family album cover. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 1d

William the Conqueror killed Harold II at Hastings on this day 1066. Of his Harrying of the North, one writer said: 'So terrible a famine fell upon the humble and defenceless people, that more than 100,000 Christian folk of both sexes, young and old alike, perished of hunger.'

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 26d

Pole position at Waterstones Arndale, Manchester.

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Greame Street, Moss Side, Manchester, 1972, photo by Daniel Meadows. Teenage girls outside the tattoo parlour.

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