detailed Ordnance Survey maps, and plans of the Manchester Ship Canal. Included is the first large-scale map of Manchester, produced by William Green in 1794, and Joseph Adshead’s Victorian map of the ...

Reports containing the maps have also been digitised, providing grim and detailed statistical accounts of the mortality experienced in Victorian Manchester. The cause of death, occupation, age and sex ...

The first phase of a “nationally significant” plan which would see 20,000 jobs created and put Greater Manchester “on the map ...