Wednesday 2 November 2011
Manchester Business School, 7pm
The Anatomy of Two Government
Inquiries and Their Outcomes
Michael Redfern QC
Michael Redfern QC chaired the Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital Inquiry (Alder Hey) and the Redfern Inquiry into human tissue analysis in Nuclear and NHS facilities. He will explain the procedures put in place and will analyse the outcomes and impact of these.
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Royal Northern College of Music, 7pm
McCURDY LECTURE
'It's not Rocket Science'......Oh Yes it is !!!
Daniel Jubb
Daniel Jubb (b.1984 Manchester) obtained corporate financing and flew many amateur rockets all before he was 14yrs old. He co-founded The Falcon Project, a company that designs and develops rocket engines. The Bloodhound is a jet and rocket powered car that was designed to break the land speed record by travelling at approximately 1000mph. He will describe the main types of rockets (solids, liquids and hybrids), the design of the supersonic car and the principal components of the rocket system.
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Monday 14 November 2011
MANDEC 7pm
Prospects for Tram-Train in Manchester and the UK
Edwin Marks
Tram-train is a vehicle that can operate both on tram tracks and on routes of the national rail network. The concept first appeared in the German city of Karlsruhe 20 years ago and has since been adopted by several cities of continental Europe. The lecture will outline this history and the reasons for its success.
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Monday 21 November 2011
Royal Northern College of Music, 7pm
UNDERGROUND MANCHESTER
Keith Warrender
Beneath the streets of Manchester is another world of mysterious subterranean underspaces, canal tunnels, reservoirs, rivers, government installations and old shelters.
Keith Warrender has spent years researching Underground Manchester and his talk aims to be informative and exciting, discussing the hidden underworld of our City.
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Wednesday 30 November 2011
Royal Northern College of Music, 7pm
WILDE LECTURE
Patrick Bronte
Father of Genius: A Much-Maligned Man
Dudley Green
For over a century and a half since his death in 1851 the Reverend Patrick Bronte has been regarded in the public mind as a strange, eccentric character and a selfish, unsympathetic father. Using the available documentary evidence Dudley Green seeks to show that the reality was far different and that he was a loving father of his motherless children and an able and effective incumbent of Haworth.