The Gilbert & Sullivan Society, Manchester

We are not a performing society, but exist to help anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of the operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and the lives of W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.

The aims of the society are to encourage people of all ages to enjoy and develop their knowledge of the world of Gilbert and Sullivan, and to help maintain the integrity of the operas.

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“To get from ‘protoplasmal primordial atomic globule’ (as Gilbert and Sullivan put

it) to sentient upright modern human has required you to mutate new traits

over and over in a precisely timely manner for an exceedingly long while."

Bill Bryson – A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)