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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…

Inching Towards the Meter

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 19/5/2015 May 20th World Metrology Day Inching Towards the Meter: Dr. Velkar Reflects on Britishness on World Metrology Day May 20th 2015 is ‘World Metrology Day’. The theme for 2015 is ‘Measurements and Light’. Historically, light has had a special significance in modern metrology, which is…

Occupied France During WW1

As part of a series of posts showcasing recent publications by members of staff, below are three works that have appeared in various forms in the last few months by Dr James Connolly: ‘Fresh Eyes, Dead Topic? Writing the History of the Occupation of Northern France in World War One,’ in Ludivine Broch and Alison…

Interwar Celebrity Detectives!

‘The Scrapbooking Detective: Frederick Porter Wensley and the Limits of ‘Celebrity’ and ‘Authority’ in Inter-War Britain’ By Eloise Moss Social History 40/1 (2015) The article deals with the published life-writings of ‘celebrity detective’ Frederick Porter Wensley, who was head of C.I.D. at Scotland Yard during the interwar years and captured some of the period’s most…

Governing Gaeldom: Dr Allan Kennedy wins the Frank Watson book prize 2015!

CONGRATULATIONS are due to our own Dr Allan Kennedy, who has won the prestigious Frank Watson Book Prize 2015 for his first book, Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State. 1660-1688 (Leiden, 2014). The prize is given every two years by the Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, Ontario, to…

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