Manchester School

Manchester school may refer to:

  • Manchester capitalism, a socio-economic and political movement of the 19th century
  • The Manchester School (journal), an academic journal of economics
  • Manchester school (anthropology), a school of thought in anthropology
  • Manchester School of Acting, a drama college in Manchester, England
  • Manchester School of Architecture in Manchester, England
  • Manchester School of Technology, a school in Manchester, New Hampshire
  • Manchester School (writers), a term applied to a number of playwrights in Manchester, England, in the early 20th century
  • The Manchester School (New Music Manchester), group of composers and performers in 1950s in Manchester, England

Famous quotes containing the words manchester and/or school:

    “The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.”
    —Robert Bresson (b. 1907)