Students in possession of Liverpool’s fantastic collections and resources, including bound volumes from C19 workhouse reports and town planners. Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 19/3/2015. Advancing into the Archives Workshop: Liverpool Records Office, 9 March 2015 Second-year undergraduates from the University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University were invited to…

Blood and Terror! What is our relationship with death and violence in the past? What are the ways we talk about death, now and historically? What are our responsibilities to the dead? What are the ethics of making plague, war and violence into a consumer spectacle? Manchester’s MA students studying Public History took a trip…

Name: Cath Feely Degree Programme: Politics and Modern History (I also later did a Masters in Cultural History and a PhD in History; also taught in the department on and off in various capacities from 2006 to 2013). Year Completed: 2002 Current Occupation: Lecturer in History at the University of Derby Why did you choose…

Name Bryony Spencer Degree Programme BA History (Hons) Year Completed 2015 Current Occupation Student Communications and Marketing Assistant (MGIP Internship) University of Manchester Careers Service   I’ve been enthusiastic about History for as long as I can remember. Growing up I subscribed to Horrible Histories magazine and summer holidays saw regular trips to the museums…