Shanghai Summer, 2013 – by Third Year Dan Gray

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 2/9/2013. The study China programme is a government funded trip to one of a range of Chinese universities. During these visits participants are expected to take part in an intensive course combining Chinese mandarin lessons, with a choice of eith, marketing, politics or urban planning modules….

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PhD Life: Fieldwork in Mexico 2013

Editors note: This is an archived blog post from 20/10/2013. Fieldwork in Mexico 2013 –  three lessons I learnt which have little or nothing to do with my research by Rosy Rickett, 3rd year PhD student I was in Mexico City (“De EFeh”) from March-June 2013 looking at materials related to the roughly 30,000 Spanish…

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Monday’s Pub Quiz: a History

  Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 9/10/2013 By Catherine Feely. On Monday 14th October, History staff and students will engage in friendly battle at the History Society’s Pub Quiz (Bar 256, Fallowfield, 7.30pm). Many of you will know that this event has been organised by our lively and successful History Society….

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Michael Wood Second Postgraduate Master Class

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 8/11/2013. The University of Manchester’s new Professor of Public History, Michael Wood, is holding the second of three Postgraduate master classes on Tuesday, 26 November, 2-4pm in Coupland 1, Pear Theatre. Michael is one of the country’s best loved historians, having been a regular face on…

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