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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…

‘Black women who have struggled to make our efforts possible’: Olive Morris and the Legacy of Black Power in Manchester

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 historical…

From the Corridors of Power to Sir Henry Cole’s Rat: Level 3 Field-trip to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and National Archives, London!

Dr Oliver Bast (back row) and students at the National Archives. Image courtesy of Dr Bast. On the morning of Friday 11th March, ten of us taking the Level 3 History course ‘Oil Wars? Armed Conflict, War and Foreign Power Intervention in the Persian Gulf (1898-1991)’ took a field trip to London. We were accompanied by…

The Perils and Promises of Being a Mature Student

Editor’s Note: This blog has been re-posted by kind permission of Robin Trenbath; for more from Robin you can follow his blog here and read his twitter feed @rjtrenbath Many mature students have had unusual relationships with education – and I am certainly one of them. When I left school at 16 I gleefully burned my…

Why do a Joint Honours degree at Manchester? Alumna Elkie Myers reflects on studying Politics and Modern History

Elkie Myers BA Politics and Modern History (2012-2015) I graduated in July 2015 after completing my BA in Politics and Modern History. My course was co-ordinated by the History department in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, but was essentially a two-school course, with Politics lectures run by the School of Social Sciences….

Advancing into the Archive Workshop: Our undergraduates discover hidden treasures at Liverpool Records Office!

A few years ago, during one of my early posts as Stipendiary Lecturer in History at the University of Oxford, I was sat in a supervision meeting with a third-year dissertation student and began to chat with them about starting to conduct their own archival research. As I began excitedly recounting my own ‘Eureka moments’…

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