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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: Workshop on Historiography & Theory

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 12/5/2010. 19th May 2010, 3.00-4.30pm Following last year’s workshop on social history, we are pleased to invite research students and staff to participate in a discussion around Professor Joyce’s newly published Past & Present article, ‘What is the social in social history?’. Professor Patrick Joyce has…

Memories of Studying at Manchester: Richard Ward

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 26/10/2009. Studying History at Manchester as an under-graduate ended in the summer of 2008. I thoroughly enjoyed being at Manchester but after finishing my dissertation, an examination of British public opinion on the civil war in El Salvador 1981-1983, and my final examinations I realised that…

Current PhD research: ‘What Marx Really Meant’

Editors Note: This is an archived blog post from 11/11/2009. Current Research: Cath Feely, PhD student I am currently writing up my Ph.D. thesis, provisionally titled `“What Marx Really Meant”: Karl Marx’s Capital and radical book cultures in Britain, 1881-1945′, which will be submitted in 2010. This project traces the British reception of Marx’s magnum…

The People: Working-class life in postwar Britain, 1945-1979

Current research: Selina Todd The ‘working-class’ are demonised and romanticised in equal measure today. My research is exploring how this situation came about. I’m interested in the changes that occurred in ordinary people’s lives after the Second World War, a period of great social, cultural and economic upheaval. Alongside studying how welfare changed living standards,…

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