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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 Undergraduate Prizes 2011-2012

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 29/8/2012. The History Department is very proud to announce the list of prizewinners for the academic year 2011-2012. The department has a number of prizes recognizing and celebrating outstanding academic achievement by its undergraduates in a number of fields and across all years. So congratulations to…

History Scavenger Hunt

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 5/11/2012. North of Oxford Rd. in day time: the kind of unusual adventure that comes with being an Historian. On Wednesday 19 September during Welcome Week the History Peer Mentors came together and organised a brand new event, a History Scavenger Hunt of Manchester. The…

Sasha Handley and the Ghosts of Ham House

Current Research: Sasha Handley Dr Sasha Handley is joining us as one of our new Lecturers in Early Modern History from this September. It is great to welcome her back (Sasha had been in Manchester previously as Teaching Fellow and Simon Research Fellow), and a great opportunity to learn about her exciting research and activities,…

Print Culture, Death and Disaster in the Early Modern World

Stefano Della Bella, Death on a Battlefield (c. 1646-48), Baillieu Library Print Collection, University of Melbourne, Gift of Dr. Orde Poynton, 1959 Current Research: Jenny Spinks Dr Jenny Spinks, a new lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, has been working for the last several years on an exhibition project…

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