150th Anniversary

On 19th January 2024, at the Bridgewater Hall, we celebrated the 150th Birthday of Manchester High School for Girls. Before the ceremony began, we watched a film from the archive, ‘A Model High Schoo…

  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…

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…

On January 19th 1874, Manchester High School for Girls opened for the first time.  It was one of the first few academic girls’ schools in England and the first in the north. Our Founders’ vision was …