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