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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. Kennedy’s book shortlisted for Saltire award

Governing Gaeldom: The Scottish Highlands and the Restoration State, 1660-1688 by Dr. Allan Kennedy (Research Associate in British/Scottish History, SALC) has been shortlisted for the Saltire Society History Book of the Year award. Conventional accounts of the Scottish Highlands tend to assume that they remained detached from the mainstream of British affairs until well into…

Manchester Histories Festival: From Little Ireland to Chinatown

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 21/3/2014 From Little Ireland to Chinatown: Mapping diversity in Manchester Wed 26 Mar 2014 6pm Manchester Central Library St. Peter’s Square, Manchester, M2 5PD How has immigration, from the mid-nineteenth century to today, changed the face of Manchester? Digital mapping is an exciting tool for visualising…

Manchester Histories Festival – Manchester Heroes

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 21/3/2014 Panel Discussion – Manchester Heroes: Should the City Remember Its Heroes? Monday 24 March, 6.30pm – 8.00pm, National Football Museum Manchester is associated with a unique cast of characters from the Pankhurst family to Alan Turing, George Best to Morrissey. 200-miles North of London, it’s…

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

Two Manchester historians awarded prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prizes

Revolutionary Women: The Female Black Panthers who led the Fight to Freedom

Black Women Organising: What we can learn from the rise and fall of OWAAD

‘Black women who have struggled to make our efforts possible’: Olive Morris and the Legacy of Black Power in Manchester

The Mangrove Nine

Dr. Kennedy’s book shortlisted for Saltire award

Manchester Histories Festival: From Little Ireland to Chinatown

Manchester Histories Festival – Manchester Heroes

Graduation 2014 in Photos