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The amazing things you may not know Greater Manchester gave to the world
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Greater Manchester has long been a region to pave the way with a wealth of innovations, trends and ideas over the decades.
From the city that split the atom to modern vegetarianism and the world's longest running soap - they all happened in Greater Manchester before anywhere else.
Mancunians, too, have a long and proud history of amazing individual achievements, even if they took them elsewhere.
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Here, we take a look at a dozen things you may not know Greater Manchester gave to the world.
The list below isn't intended to be comprehensive, we selected a number of facts from a range of different fields . But, if there is something you feel we should have included, let us know in the comments section.
Chetham's Library was founded in 1653 and is the oldest public library in Britain.
The nation's first free public library to open, it was founded using money donated by wealthy Mancunian Humphrey Chetham.
Humphrey Chetham's Will stipulated that the Library should be 'for the use of schollars and others well affected', and instructed the librarian 'to require nothing of any man that cometh into the library'.
In 1903, Moss Side-born Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union in her home, which still stands on Nelson Street, to pursue more militant efforts to obtain the vote, amid frustrations over a lack of progress.
In the years that followed, suffragettes - the avowedly militant movement of female suffrage campaigners - stepped up their battle, clashing with police and repeatedly facing imprisonment for their actions.
Women aged over 30 who met certain requirements, such as
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