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Manchester is a city in the north of England, nearby Liverpool.
In one of the highlights of Manchester, the Chetham's library, are kept Robert Southey's Letters of Espriella in which says of Manchester that ‘a place more destitute of all interest it is impossible to conceive’.
We visited it in April (2018) (Fabrice did pass by once in 2017 in a failed attempt to get a Chinese visa; on our second visit, which was with Camilo, he also tried to get a Chinese visa, and also failed).
Chetham's Library, founded 1653 in a 1421 building, is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world. It holds over 120000 volumes of printed books an other documents. Unlike the time of Chetham, would instructed ‘to require nothing of any man that cometh into the library’, its visit is today strictly regulated.
Marx and Engels used to meet there, in the window seat that you see in this picture above, where they developed the Communist Manifesto.
The guide also mentioned a meeting of Cromwell on the roundtable, but I could find no other mention of that.