Current Research: Sasha Handley Dr Sasha Handley is joining us as one of our new Lecturers in Early Modern History from this September. It is great to welcome her back (Sasha had been in Manchester previously as Teaching Fellow and Simon Research Fellow), and a great opportunity to learn about her exciting research and activities,…

Stefano Della Bella, Death on a Battlefield (c. 1646-48), Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Gift of Dr. Orde Poynton, 1959   Current Research: Jenny Spinks   Dr Jenny Spinks, a new lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, has been working for the last several years on an exhibition project…

Our colleague Dr. Peter Yeandle has just published a piece in the Journal of Victorian Culture online on the Victorian precedent of occupying the steps and square outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. The article, What Would Jesus do? The “Occupation” of St. Paul’s Cathedral, February 1887 is free to view and explores the connections between religion and…

Current Research: Chris Godden Our colleague Dr. Chris Godden has been doing some research on the life and work of Mark Hovell, a student at Manchester before the First World War, whose promising career as an historian was cut short by the conflict. Chris has recently found a set of Hovell’s papers and we look…