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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…

Fighting for History: Dr Frances Houghton discusses Convoy PQ17 and some recent libel trials…

Early this year a film slid into the British cinemas, enjoyed a few weeks’ showing, and then slipped quietly away again. Denial (2016) recounted the story of a bitter battle waged between two historians in a libel court in 1996 over the ‘right’ way to create a historical record of the Holocaust. Defending her assertion…

Inching Towards the Meter: Britain, Europe and the Politics of Economic Integration

Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester) On Brexit day (23 June 2016), The Guardian reminded its readers about the ‘Euro myth’ of how European metrication laws had criminalised the use of the Imperial inch such that even the Queen was forced to ‘obey Europe’.[1] Since then, there have been several reports in the popular media about…

Printing a Nation: Dr Anindita Ghosh discusses her new BBC Radio 4 Series on the history of the printing press in India!

Dr Anindita Ghosh at College Street, Kolkata, one of the largest book markets in the world, where books are precariously but perfectly balanced in high piles – a hallmark feature of the bookstalls in the area. Enjoyed listening to Anindita? Please complete our questionnaire, and feel free to ask any questions! BBC Radio 4: Broadcasting…

Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in the 1970s and 1980s: Professor Judith Walkowitz discusses her latest research and forthcoming visit to Manchester!

Torso Installation, ‘Prostitution: What’s Going On?’ Exhibition at the Women’s Library, Whitechapel, 2006. Image courtesy of Professor Walkowitz. In 1972 I joined a small cohort of feminist historians who insisted that prostitution had a history. At the time, prostitution remained low on the agenda of women’s liberation on both sides of the Atlantic. Women liberationists…

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