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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…

Lawrence of Arabia (& Beyond)

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 21/5/2015 Lawrence of Arabia (& Beyond) Other Lawrences & the Other Lawrence This one-day workshop, held at the John Rylands Library on Friday 15 May, brought together scholars to discuss aspects of the life and reputation of one of the most enigmatic Britons of the twentieth…

Lawrence of Arabia and Beyond…

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 27/4/2015. ‘Lawrence of Arabia and Beyond – Other Lawrences and the other Lawrence’ 15 May 2015 10 am – 4.30 pm John Rylands Library, Deansgate, Manchester 2015 marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Thomas Edward Lawrence – scholar, archaeologist, soldier, spy, diplomat, author and…

Holocaust Memory and Memorials

The Centre for Jewish Studies and the Department of History, University of Manchester and IWM North (part of Imperial War Museums) One-day conference Holocaust Memory and Memorials Monday 26 October 2015, 9.30am-4.00pm Libeskind Rooms, IWM North This conference will explore the varied and diverging memories of the Holocaust since 1945. Four speakers – three academics…

CFP: ‘Transnational Cultures of Petitioning from 1750 to the present’

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 17/5/2015. ‘Transnational Cultures of Petitioning from 1750 to the present’ 29th and 30th June (Monday and Tuesday) Call for Papers – abstracts due May 25 Petitioning was and is a universal phenomenon that transcends place and time. In pre-democratic periods it was frequently the most accessible…

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