Inspired by Libraries with Greg Jenner

Manchester City of Literature, part of the UNESCO Creative Cities network since 2017.

Manchester City of Literature

Join Greg to hear all about the importance of libraries, and libraries throughout history!

Urmston Library

Festival of Libraries

Manchester UNESCO City of Literature’s  Festival of Libraries, the county-wide celebration of Greater Manchester’s 133 libraries, returns with a full live programme of events 10-14th June 2026.

Greg Jenner is a British public historian with a particular interest in communicating history through pop culture and humour.Greg presents the BBC Sounds’ podcast You’re Dead to Me, broadcast on Radio 4, which was in the top three most listened to BBC podcasts of 2021 and won the British Comedy Guide Best Radio Entertainment Show of 2021. Greg also presented the Radio 4 series Homeschool History to great acclaim, broadcast during the lockdown period of the Covid pandemic. Most recently in 2022 he presented a 20 part series for Radio 4, Past Forward: A Century of Sound, one of the special series to mark the BBC’s Centenary year.Greg is the Historical Consultant to CBBC’s multi-award-winning Horrible Histories and the author of A Million Years In A Day: A Curious History of Ordinary Life, From Stone Age To Phone Age – an entertaining gallop through the evolution of our daily routines. Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity was published in March 2020 and Greg’s most recent book, Ask an Historian was published in late 2021.PLEASE NOTE: The price of tickets are purchasable on a &quot;pay what you can&quot; basis. The choice of incremental price of ticket does not determine the quality of ticket purchased; this is a simply a measure put in place to accommodate for individual financial circumstances. The price may appear different on Eventbrite due to the company taking a percentage of the ticket sales.

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