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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…

Dr Allan Kennedy wins the Emile Lousse Prize 2015!

Contemporary image of the ceremonial opening of Scottish Parliament in 1707. Emile Lousse Prize, 2015 Awarded annually for the best article published in the journal Parliaments, Estates and Representation by a scholar under the age of 40. Dr Allan Kennedy is joint winner of the prize for his article ‘Representing the Periphery: Highland Commissioners in the Seventeenth-Century Scottish…

My Nazi Legacy: UoM Centre for Jewish Studies co-sponsors Film Festival event in Manchester

Theresienstadt Concentration Camp. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. On Wednesday 11th November at 6.20 p.m., HOME in Manchester will be screening My Nazi Legacy: a tense and moving documentary in which Internationally-renowned human rights barrister Philippe Sands QC goes on a road trip with two sons of SS officers, to find out if they can admit…

Transnational Cultures of Petitioning symposium

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 2/6/2015. Transnational Cultures of Petitioning symposium University of Manchester June 29-30 Organized by the Cultures of Politics Research Group, History Division. The organizer would like to gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social History Society, the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the History Division,…

The University Reimagined Past and Present: Symposium

This symposium on the changing role of universities through history takes place at The University of Manchester on Wednesday, 16 September 2015. The idea of the university has been evolving since medieval Europe and the process of change continues today through innovation and reimagining of purpose. This symposium will focus on how, when and where…

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