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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…

History & Sociology Make Contact

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 15/3/2014. The History and Sociology Party gets swinging at the Contact Theatre on the 26th of February History and Sociology students had a dedicated programme party on the 26th of February in the warm and inviting space of the Contact Theatre Lounge. There were drinks, nibbles,…

Sitting Exams, Making History

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 15/1/2014 Examination Papers as Historical Sources By Emily Jones (Manchester, ’10) (Exeter College, Oxford) Four years after my last January exams at Manchester, I’ve been wading through seemingly endless late-Victorian and Edwardian scripts as part of my doctoral research. Aside from being far more fun to…

Race, Science and the Nation

Race, Science and the Nation: Reconstructing the Ancient Past in Britain, France and Germany By Chris Manias Across the nineteenth century, scholars in Britain, France and the German lands sought to understand their earliest ancestors: the Germanic and Celtic tribes known from classical antiquity, and the newly discovered peoples of prehistory. New fields – philology,…

Gender and Conflict

Current Research: Ana Carden Coyne We are pleased to announce a landmark new collection of essays edited by Ana Carden-Coyne, Senior Lecturer in War and Conflict and co-director of the Centre for the Cultural History of War. Gender and Conflict since 1914: Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives is published by Palgrave McMillan in the Gender and…

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