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  • Talk
  • History
  • Manchester
  • 23 January 2025

Imagined Manchester: what our city could have been

A talk by award-winning guide and writer Jonathan Schofield

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  • Seminar
  • Philosophy
  • Manchester
  • 5 December 2024

Is Atheism a religion?

The Lit & Phil Philosophy Forum

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