On Tuesday 5th March 2024, our Archivists, Mrs Gwen Hobson and Mrs Pam Roberts,  delivered the fourth in a series of ‘In Conversation with the Archivists’ sessions on Zoom, along with our Head Mistre…

Alumnae who were here in the 1990s will remember the construction of our smart new reception area. They may also remember that the end of the top corridor and staircase were demolished and the only w…

A Life Remembered: Doris Angel Memorial Film. Ann Angel, MHSG class of 1977, talks to her mother, Doris Angel, née Loewenstein, about arriving as a young Jewish refugee from Germany at the end of 193…

Gertrude Powicke 1887 – 1919   Gertrude Powicke taught French and German at Manchester High School for Girls from 1911 to 1915. She played a key role in coordinating the MHSG war effort, making much-…

At MHSG, we love to keep in touch with our former students and are looking forward to the Annual and Decades Reunion in September. The Old Girls’ Association was founded in September 1883 at a meetin…

During the weekend of 3-4 February 2024, MHSG hosted its 10th Model United Nations Conference, MUNHigh, with over 350 delegates from 20 schools. The UN's Deputy Secretary General, Amina J. Mohammed, …

Frances Harrison was one of the first girls to be enrolled at MHSG in 1874 and her connection with the School lasted until her death in 1954, aged 94. She  worked as a student teacher in the Preparat…

Singing has always been popular at MHSG, but did you know that one of the most famous sopranos of the 20th century, Isobel Baillie, was a pupil here from 1908-1909? Isobel made her Halle debut in Nov…

PE has always been important at MHSG. On Friday 3 May 1901 the School held its very first gym display at Dover Street. Girls marched into the gym to the accompaniment of music and did exercises inclu…

  The first Founders’ Day Ceremony at Manchester High School for Girls was held on 19 January 1899 in the school hall in Dover Street. It commemorated the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Schoo…

We were thrilled to report in 2018 that an autograph book, created by pupils from Manchester High between 1916 and 1918, had been found in the bottom of a basket in a charity shop and given as a pres…

Elise Lempfert was a pupil at MHSG in the 1880s.  She later became a piano student of Clara Schumann and, a true Manchester High girl, in 1898 she became the co-founder of the Kvinderådet (The Women'…