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As the UK goes to the polls today, we thought it would be good to share some various links and objects from the archive that link MGS to political history. In 1906, MGS held a mock election, and a bo…

Since 1906, the School has held mock elections whenever a general election has been held, with a few exceptions. Here are the results from 1906 onwards, with the national result in brackets: 1906 - L…

Many readers will be familiar with the story of the MGS Rebellion when MGS boys barricaded themselves in the School for two weeks. Previously, we were only aware of a short secondhand account by Scho…

When the School moved to Old Hall Lane in 1931, it opened a Visitors' Book. Since 1931, a number of famous names have signed the book, including Elizabeth II, Rab Butler, Michael Foot, Brian Redhead …

Congratulations to year 12 pupil Geza who has been awarded 'Highly Commended' for his entry into the Politics category of the North Eastern University London essay competition. Geza wrote an essay ti…

Thank you very much to Sir Graham Brady, Chairman of the 1922 Committee, for taking the time to visit The Manchester Grammar School today. He led a very insightful assembly to year 12 and 13 pupils a…

Frank Cooper was born in December 1922 in Droylsden. His father, Valentine, was a commercial traveller and his mother Wynnefred, a teacher. The family were Moravians, although he later relinquished h…

William Percival Crozier was born in 1879 in County Durham. His father, Richard, was a Methodist minister. By 1891, the family had moved south, settling in Oldham, and Crozier started at Manchester G…

Dr Kilheeney accompanied four MGS pupils, Harish, Ashvin, Enyioma and Hunter at a Young Interfaith round-table question and answer session with the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Keir Starmer, OM Wakk…

This half term on Hoots from the Archive, we will be looking at the links between MGS and the Jewish Community. This was prompted by working with the Jewish Board of Deputies on a project called “Hid…

Yesterday, the MGS Politics boys made the trip to London to the Houses of Parliament, during a visit interesting time in British politics! While there, they were also addressed by the School’s consti…

This piece is an updated and expanded version of a previous article posted in Spring 2019. Thanks go to OM James Brennan who pointed out the significance of Charles Ethelston. For most of its five hu…

With the general election just a couple of days away, here is an article on a political theme, taken from the 1963 edition of Ulula. George Benson was Member of Parliament for Chesterfield 1929 – 31 …

By Rick Kelly, Head of Politics at MGS  The MGS Politics Department has a long history of staging political meetings open to the public. But last night’s debate - on ‘Brexit and Beyond: the Future of…

By Rick Kelly, Head of Politics at MGS  The MGS Politics department today hosted a rare breed of politician: a pro-Brexit Labour MP. Graham Stringer, MP for Broughton and Blackley since 1997 and form…

BREXIT AND BEYOND: THE FUTURE OF THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY THURSDAY 21 MARCH 7-8pm. At a moment of profound national crisis  – and just a week before the UK is scheduled formally to leave the European U…

Very lively debate between our boys in the Lower School Politics Society today, as they discussed the motion that the voting age in the UK should be dropped from 18 and 16. After eloquent speeches an…

As reported last month, the MGS Politics Department recently celebrated its 40th anniversary. So it was fitting that, earlier this week, we were visited by one of the School’s first ever A-Level Poli…

Last evening, more than 100 Old Mancunians from around the country gathered at the fantastic location of the National Liberal Club, in the heart of London, to celebrate 40 years of teaching Politics …

In last week’s blogpost, we mentioned the final entry in our visitors’ book – the autograph of former Labour leader Michael Foot.   Ian Thorpe shared his memories of that visit last week on this blo…

Pupils from the Lower School Politics Society visited the Houses of Parliament and watched a debate in the House of Commons, led by Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, on Libya. They also took a tour a…

OM Michael Crick returned to the Politics department and talked to students studying Politics at MGS.

The Politics Department welcomed it’s last guest speaker prior to the Election: Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour candidate for Gorton. The School’s MP since 1970, and the current President of its Politics …

On Friday 20th March at 2pm Lord Sharkey spoke in the Memorial Hall to all Year 12 Politics pupils about the House of Lords.

This postcard, now in the MGS archive, was posted to George Benson after Labour leader Keir Hardie was sent the results of an MGS mock election in 1906. Hardie writes: Bravo! Thirty four votes for so…