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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…

The Victorian Occupy London

Our colleague Dr. Peter Yeandle has just published a piece in the Journal of Victorian Culture online on the Victorian precedent of occupying the steps and square outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. The article, What Would Jesus do? The “Occupation” of St. Paul’s Cathedral, February 1887 is free to view and explores the connections between religion and…

Manchester Historians: Mark Hovell (1888-1916)

Current Research: Chris Godden Our colleague Dr. Chris Godden has been doing some research on the life and work of Mark Hovell, a student at Manchester before the First World War, whose promising career as an historian was cut short by the conflict. Chris has recently found a set of Hovell’s papers and we look…

History Students & Staff Recognized by Awards

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 6/6/2012 Congratulations are in order to several members of the Manchester History community! Jack Burke (BA History) was the student winner of the University’s Social Responsibility and Volunteer of the Year award in recognition of his work as project manager of Student Action’s weekly soup kitchen….

Ian Field wins competition to provide artwork for Alan Gilbert Learning Commons

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 6/9/2012 One of our PhD students, Ian Field, is one of the winners of the University’s competition to provide artwork for the new Alan Gilbert Learning Commons, which will be opening soon. Congratulations to Ian – you can see some of his images below. About his…

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