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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…

CFP: History, Consumption and Inequality

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 8/3/2013. History, Consumption & Inequality Thursday, 6 June 2013 Magdalene College, Cambridge A workshop organized by the Research Network on Inequality, Social Science & History, a collaboration between the universities of Manchester and Cambridge. CALL FOR PAPERS: DEADLINE 31st MARCH 2013 Abstracts of no more than…

Undergraduate History Essay Clinic

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 16/11/2012. On Wednesday 7 November the History Peer Mentors and the Academic Officers of the History Society held an essay clinic for our undergraduates. The clinic particularly targeted first years who had their first assessed essay deadline on the horizon. Students were invited to the hour…

The Cultural History of the Codex

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 8/12/2012. History of the Book MA course Presentation Day Adam Steedman Thake and Esther Hyde, students on the History of the Book MA during behind the scenes tour of the Centre for Heritage Imaging and Collection Care at the John Ryland’s Library The Cultural History…

MANCHESTER HISTORY HITS PRAGUE!

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 23/9/2012. MANCHESTER HISTORY HITS PRAGUE! 31ST JANUARY – 4TH FEBRUARY 2013 A message from the History Society: Following a successful trip to Berlin last year, The History Society is taking you further! Shake off those revision blues with a post-exam trip to the lively city of…

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