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Dean Kirby

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Manchester, The United Kingdom

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http://www.manchesterhistory.uk

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History, Nonfiction, Crime

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March 2016

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Dean Kirby is a multi-award winning former national newspaper journalist who was shortlisted in 2023 for an Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils. With a PhD in urban history, he writes about the street-level, working class history of Manchester, his home city. Angel Meadow: Victorian Britain's Most Savage Slum was his first book. His second book, The Scuttlers: The True Story of Manchester's Most Feared Gangs, will be published in May 2027. ...more

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The Scuttlers: New tour coming autumn 2026

Tour news!

To mark the announcement about my forthcoming book on Victorian Manchester’s scuttling gangs, I’m launching a new walking tour.

The Scuttlers: The True Story of Manchester’s Most Feared Gangs will be published by HarperNorth, the Manchester-based imprint of HarperCollins, on 6 May 2027.

It will tell the story of the incredibly-tough street fighting gangs who brought terror to the city

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Dean Kirby wrote a new blog post The Scuttlers: New tour coming autumn 2026 Tour news!To mark the announcement about my forthcoming book on Victorian Manchester’s scuttling gangs, I’m launching a new walking tour.The Scuttler Read more of this blog post »
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