Author and historian Ed Glinert relates the history of the atomic bomb and how John Dalton and Ernest Rutherford’s work in Manchester was an important part of that history.

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan Roman fort of Mamucium. But it was as the ‘shock city’ of the Industrial Revolution that […]