An entertaining and informative trip down one of the world's most important streets.
Take a walk along Manchester's Oxford Road and you could easily mistake it for a busy but unremarkable city-centre thoroughfare. But there's much more to this street than meets the eye.
As Andy Spinoza reveals, the mile-long strip has provided the backdrop to an astonishing number of world-changing events, from the splitting of the atom to the creation of the first modern computer. It was here, in the aftermath of the Second World War, that the future leaders of Africa met to formulate their vision of liberation, just ten minutes' walk from the house where Friedrich Engels once lived. And it was here that a ragtag band of anarchists planted the seeds of the city's legendary music scene, years before Factory Records and the Haçienda.
Telling these stories and many more, Spinoza offers a kaleidoscopic account of Manchester history - and with it, the history of the modern world.
