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Blind date with a book: a marketing ploy?

Blind date with a book: a marketing ploy?

Blind date with a book: a marketing ploy or a way to branch out of your reading comfort zone? And can you guess Blackwell’s mystery book from a sentence?
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Oxfam board game controversy 

Oxfam board game controversy 

Just when you think gender-critical feminists run out of people to be angry at, they turn their fire towards Oxfam
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Styled, steamed, shimmered: Stories of second-hand September

Styled, steamed, shimmered: Stories of second-hand September

The surprising second-hand September that shaped, swapped, and styled some of our editorial team’s wardrobes this month
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The best second hand shopping in the Northern Quarter

The best second hand shopping in the Northern Quarter

Does the thought of thrift shopping fill you with an existential dread of ‘where to start’? Fashion editor Alice Porter narrows down the best second-hand shopping Northern Quarter has to offer
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Charity shopping: the guilt free way to shop

Charity shopping: the guilt free way to shop

Inspired by this week’s focus on sustainability, Freya Poppy Wild took some time to remind myself of the joys of second hand shopping
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The Charity Shop Challenge

We send fashion editor Aimée to the charity shops of south Manchester on a quest to find an outfit for less than a bottle of Sainsbury’s Basics vodka.
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Fallowfield gets Creative with the Fallow Street Fair and Oxjam

Oxjam Manchester took over the streets of Fallowfield last week, with three days of music and shopping.
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Top 5 second-hand bookshops

Books Editor Annie Muir reveals her favourite second-hand bookshops in Manchester
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Interview: David Rieff

American author, polemicist and war reporter David Rieff tells Sam Dumitriu why he is a humanitarian fundamentalist
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Bags of Attitude Exhibition

There is an eerie feel about entering the Pankhurst Centre. It is not a grand building which has been built for the purpose of holding great works of art or important historical artefacts, but a simple house, once the home of Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst. Today it serves as a museum and is currently showing the […]
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