History@Manchester

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, Inequality & Sustainable Development

Current Research: Pedro Ramos Pinto The Inequality, Social Science & History Research network, an initiative co-hosted by the Department of History and the Centre for History & Economics in Cambridge has been running a 2-year long series of events looking to bring an historical perspective to current debates on inequality. Pedro Ramos Pinto, who directs…

WWI Centenary Lecture Series

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 30/9/2013. WWI Centenary Lecture Series: The Different Faces of World War 1 Booking is essential – more info on booking will appear on the below website later in autumn School of Arts, Languages and Cultures Lecture Series 2013/14 Venue: Please check the SALC website for venue information: …

Public History Event: Prof. Michael Wood “in Conversation with” Tristram Hunt MP

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 9/9/2013. Public History Event: Prof. Michael Wood “in Conversation with” Tristram Hunt MP Wednesday Sept 18 at 18:30 University Place Lecture Theatre B For thirty years now, Michael Wood has made compelling journeys into the past, which have brought history alive for countless readers and viewers….

Tobacco in the Early Modern Imagination – Symposium

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 8/3/2013. Tobacco in the Early Modern imagination An afternoon symposium at Chetham’s Library, Manchester, all welcome 15 March 2013 12.30 arrival and coffee 1.00 Opening remarks (Jerome de Groot) 1.15 Lauren Working (Durham) Unnatural Disobedience: Sedition and the Literature of Tobacco in Jacobean England 1.45…

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