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…
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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…
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…
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