Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern worldA 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 Manchester really made its mark on the world stage. A place built on hard work and innovation, it is no coincidence that the