Welcome Weeks 2014-15 It’s Welcome Week again at the University of Manchester, and I have to admit that I’m excited about it in the same way I used to feel about Christmas as a kid. As a new(ish) lecturer — I’m entering my third year at the History department here — there is a certain…
Month: November 2016
Welcome Week 2015: A photo-essay of what’s happened so far…!
Day 1: getting ready for Welcome Week in the History Common Room with Dr Sarah Roddy, Lecturer in Modern Irish History, and Amy Parkinson, our Social Media Coordinator. Our History Peer Mentors hard at work planning the year’s activities! Our students and staff attending the SALC Party for new MA Students Day 2: Our Welcome…
‘Christmas is all about stealing’: Dr Eloise Moss on Victorian Christmas burglars (with a happy ending…)
Marcel Rieder, ‘Noël,’ 1898. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. I’ve thought long and hard about what would make a good History Christmas blog post. Chatting to colleagues, it seems like everyone has a tale to tell from their own research of some Christmas-related incident; from the banning of Christmas in Soviet-era Russia (that is the…
Disaster History Website launch: Dr Pierre Fuller on his new project!
Interview with Pierre Fuller, Lecturer in East Asian History. What was the inspiration for this project? Web searches remain the predominant avenue for non-academic researchers seeking historical data or contextualisation. Yet online searches on the major topics that I have been researching and publishing on for years – famine, earthquakes and other types of disaster…
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