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Two Manchester historians awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes

Dr Alexia Yates, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, and Dr Stefan Hanß, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History, have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020 worth £100,000 in recognition of their outstanding research achievements. With this prize, The Leverhulme Trust recognises ground-breaking “work of outstanding research scholars of proven achievement, who have made and…

‘Black women who have struggled to make our efforts possible’: Olive Morris and the Legacy of Black Power in Manchester

In the month of October we will be marking Black History Month by sharing a series of short essays written by four recent graduates of the History Department at the University of Manchester. These students were part of Kerry Pimblott’s third-year seminar on the Black Freedom Movement and were tasked with putting their new historical…

British Crime Historians Conference comes to Manchester!

‘The Drama of the Criminal Court’, 1873. Source: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Keynote Speakers: Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five, and Professor Anindita Ghosh, author of Claiming the City: Protest, Crime and Scandals in Colonia Calcutta. The British Crime Historians Symposium meets every 2-3 years to discuss and debate original historical research…

Bass Culture: Reclaiming Black Britain

In the month of October we will be marking Black History Month by sharing a series of short essays written by four recent graduates of the History Department at the University of Manchester. These students were part of Kerry Pimblott’s third year seminar on the Black Freedom Movement and were tasked with putting their new…

The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, Britain’s answer to the NAACP

In the month of October we will be marking Black History Month by sharing a series of short essays written by four recent graduates of the History Department at the University of Manchester. These students were part of Kerry Pimblott’s third year seminar on the Black Freedom Movement and were tasked with putting their new…

Manchester historian awarded major grants by AHRC and ESRC

Dr Edmond Smith, Presidential Fellow in Economic Cultures, has been awarded two major grants to explore how Britain’s economy developed between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Building on their previous research, which culminated in their 2021 monograph Merchants, Smith will continue to examine the cultural and behavioural underpinnings of economic activity in the early…

Vaccinating Jack Tar: The Royal Navy versus ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ during the Second World War

Dr. Frances Houghton ‘So many people accept without question the dogmatic opinion and fantastic claims of the patent medicine vendor, ignorant quacks, or even film stars, in preference to the guarded statements of scientists and the experimental evidence which shows that [these] claims and opinions have no foundation in fact…’[1] In 1943, the exasperated Medical…

The Beginnings of Manchester’s Caribbean Carnival

Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter

Staff at the History Department, in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, stand shoulder to shoulder with the Black Lives Matter movement in the US, UK and across the world. The killing of George Floyd has seized global attention by highlighting the deep-rooted problem of state violence and systematic racism. As historians we are…

The West Indian Gazette: A symbiotic dialogue between the local and the global

‘The Gazette represents the beginnings of an African-Caribbean political consciousness in Britain.’

Histories of the Self

Penny Summerfield (Emerita Professor of History at University of Manchester) recently published a new book, Histories of the Self: personal narratives and historical practice (Routledge, 2018). As she explains, the book was inspired by teaching courses on personal testimony and historical research at Manchester. One of my favourite courses, when I taught at Manchester, was…

History invites applications for two postdoctoral Presidential Fellows

We welcome applications for two new postdoctoral Presidential Fellows in History at the University of Manchester. Closing date 3 April 2018. Environmental History ( HUM-011350) http://www.brightest-minds.manchester.ac.uk History seeks to appoint a Presidential Fellow specialising in environmental history. Environmental history is a growing area of research that seeks to understand how people have understood, shaped and been…

“What we seek is the truth”: the Role of Public Mourning and Alternative Media Forms in Protests against Racial Violence in Hackney

In the month of October we will be marking Black History Month by sharing a series of short essays written by four recent graduates of the History Department at the University of Manchester. These students were part of Kerry Pimblott’s third year seminar on the Black Freedom Movement and were tasked with putting their new…

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Stokely Carmichael in London: The birth of the British Black Power Movement?

Two Manchester historians awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes

Revolutionary Women: The Female Black Panthers who led the Fight to Freedom

Black Women Organising: What we can learn from the rise and fall of OWAAD

‘Black women who have struggled to make our efforts possible’: Olive Morris and the Legacy of Black Power in Manchester

The Mangrove Nine

British Crime Historians Conference comes to Manchester!

Bass Culture: Reclaiming Black Britain

The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination, Britain’s answer to the NAACP

Manchester historian awarded major grants by AHRC and ESRC

Vaccinating Jack Tar: The Royal Navy versus ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ during the Second World War

The Beginnings of Manchester’s Caribbean Carnival

Statement in Support of Black Lives Matter

The West Indian Gazette: A symbiotic dialogue between the local and the global

Histories of the Self

History invites applications for two postdoctoral Presidential Fellows

“What we seek is the truth”: the Role of Public Mourning and Alternative Media Forms in Protests against Racial Violence in Hackney