Academia breakfast morning at Bembe Cafe on the 4 August at 10:30am
Summer Reads recommended by The Cafe Historique (Manchester) + .a.b.c (academic breakfast club)
.a: A Biography of Manchester by Rachel Ryan.
Here's an excerpt: "Music loving foreigners could sympathize wih the strong inborn desire of native Lancastrians to sing in huge choirs, + appreciate the aesthetic impulse (though they might sometimes deplore its results) which goaded them to perform perpetually."
.b: Many Arts, Many Skills: The Origins of the Manchester Metropolitan University by Alan Fowler + Terry Wyke.
.c: Manchester Made Me by Anthony Burgess
Here's an excerpt: "The time when I was a student at the University [of Manchester] was perhaps the happiest of my life. I had little money, but beer was sixpence a pint, + you could buy twenty Player's for a shilling. I love the pubs, which were gamy, even Rabelaisian, + I earned extra money by playing the piano in them. My father played the piano in a cinema before the talking pictures came; my mother, before the post-war influenza epidemic took her + my sister, had sung + danced professionally -- there was always in our family the capacity to entertain."
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