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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…

‘A world I wanted to understand better’: Hanna Matt, our LEAP Language prize winner 2017, tells us about her fantastic experience learning Russian during her History degree.

Hanna Matt, 2nd Year History Student, Winner of LEAP Student Prize 2016-17 The spark that set the flame alight was my first-year history in practice course with Dr. Kristy Ironside entitled ‘Stalinist Society’, which covered a wide range of topics about Soviet history – from Stalin’s constitution to family values and a study of one…

Fighting for History: Dr Frances Houghton discusses Convoy PQ17 and some recent libel trials…

Early this year a film slid into the British cinemas, enjoyed a few weeks’ showing, and then slipped quietly away again. Denial (2016) recounted the story of a bitter battle waged between two historians in a libel court in 1996 over the ‘right’ way to create a historical record of the Holocaust. Defending her assertion…

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…

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Doing environmental history for peat’s sake

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

‘A world I wanted to understand better’: Hanna Matt, our LEAP Language prize winner 2017, tells us about her fantastic experience learning Russian during her History degree.

Fighting for History: Dr Frances Houghton discusses Convoy PQ17 and some recent libel trials…

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!