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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. Carden-Coyne on disabled veterans

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 8/12/2014 The University of Manchester is, for the first time, involved in the UK-wide Disability History Month awareness project, and this year’s theme is the First World War. Manchester City Council’s Equality and Diversity team has asked History’s Dr. Ana Carden-Coyne to give the inaugural lecture…

Political Violence and Assassinations Symposium

Editors Note: This is an archived post from 4/4/2014. Political Violence and Assassinations The University of Manchester – 08/05/2014 Inspired by two major anniversaries – the fiftieth anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, and the hundredth anniversary of the Sarajevo assassinations – the Cultures of Politics research cluster is delighted to be hosting an afternoon…

Objects and Remembering Conference

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 23/5/2014. June 20 conference ‘Objects and Remembering’ You are cordially invited to attend a one-day conference on ‘Objects and Remembering‘ being held on the 20th June in the Graduate School, Ellen Wilkinson, room C1.18 from 9am-5pm. The conference is open to all and is of particular interest to…

News of Modernity Workshop

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 14/4/2015. “News of Modernity: Early Modern Commercial News Networks” 17 April 2015 9am – 5pm John Rylands Library Deansgate, Manchester This workshop proposes to investigate the role of news in mercantile networks in Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Atlantic World. The importance of news for…

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