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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…

Inching Towards the Meter: Britain, Europe and the Politics of Economic Integration

Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) On Brexit day (23 June 2016), The Guardian reminded its readers about the ‘Euro myth’ of how European metrication laws had criminalised the use of the Imperial inch such that even the Queen was forced to ‘obey Europe’.[1] Since then, there have been several reports in the popular media about…

Printing a Nation: Dr Anindita Ghosh discusses her new BBC Radio 4 Series on the history of the printing press in India!

Dr Anindita Ghosh at College Street, Kolkata, one of the largest book markets in the world, where books are precariously but perfectly balanced in high piles – a hallmark feature of the bookstalls in the area. Enjoyed listening to Anindita? Please complete our questionnaire, and feel free to ask any questions! BBC Radio 4: Broadcasting…

Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s: Professor Judith Walkowitz discusses her latest research and forthcoming visit to Manchester!

Torso Installation, ‘Prostitution: What’s Going On?’ Exhibition at the Women’s Library, Whitechapel, 2006. Image courtesy of Professor Walkowitz. In 1972 I joined a small cohort of feminist historians who insisted that prostitution had a history. At the time, prostitution remained low on the agenda of women’s liberation on both sides of the Atlantic. Women liberationists…

Connecting Medieval Worlds: The exciting new seminar series!

Introducing the ‘Global Middle Ages’ When most people think about the Middle Ages, they will not be thinking of pottery in Ghana or Nubian embassies to Europe. Closer to home, they probably won’t know that the first archbishop of Canterbury was a Greek monk from modern-day Turkey, or the medieval legend that Britain was discovered…

History@Manchester

The Year in Student Activities

Manchester Movement Histories

Researching Trans History from the ‘Outside’: The importance of community engagement

History invites applications for two postdoctoral Presidential Fellows

Remembering Lancashire’s ‘lost lake’ on world wetlands day

Onions, embroidery and other historical lessons could help you sleep

Inching Towards the Meter: Britain, Europe and the Politics of Economic Integration

Printing a Nation: Dr Anindita Ghosh discusses her new BBC Radio 4 Series on the history of the printing press in India!

Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s: Professor Judith Walkowitz discusses her latest research and forthcoming visit to Manchester!

Connecting Medieval Worlds: The exciting new seminar series!