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)

    “The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)