‘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…
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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…
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…
Call for oral history interviewees! MA student project on ‘The Everyday Racism Experienced by British Muslims.’
My name is Sibia Akhtar and I am a MA History student at the University of Manchester. I want to interview British Muslims, for my thesis, via zoom or skype about the historical and contemporary experiences of being a British Muslim. My interviews will present what ordinary Muslims identify as pressing issues that affect them…
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