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…

The past in today’s politics

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 17/1/2012. The past in today’s politics: a debate on the state of history-writing as a political act A panel debate hosted by the Raphael Samuel History Centre and the British Library Eliot Room, British Library Conference Centre, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB, 5 March 2012,…

Reading (the activity not the place)

Reading Workshop Reading (the activity not the place) Thursday 13th December, 5pm, Seminar room, John Rylands Deansgate (meet in the café by reception to be shown the way to the room) What do you imagine when you read? Do you read to feel happy, safe, reassured? Reading is both an intimate and public activity,…

Ragged University @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 20/6/2012. Ragged University @ The Castle Hotel, Manchester On 5th July (7.30pm), The Castle Hotel on Oldham St. will be hosting the inaugural Ragged University event in Manchester. The Ragged University provides a platform for the free exchange of knowledge and skills in social spaces like…

Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 30/5/2012. Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900 A one day conference at the People’s History Museum, Manchester, hosted by the Centre for British Politics, University of Nottingham: Parties, People and Elections: Political Communication since 1900 The event is free to attend – please email…

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