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…

Connecting Medieval Worlds: The exciting new seminar series!

Introducing the ‘Global Middle Ages’ When most people think about the Middle Ages, they will not be thinking of pottery in Ghana or Nubian embassies to Europe. Closer to home, they probably won’t know that the first archbishop of Canterbury was a Greek monk from modern-day Turkey, or the medieval legend that Britain was discovered…

Warnings from history: Dr John Morgan looks closely at our reactions to floods…

The armed forces descended on Norfolk last month. Around 200 troops descended on the seaside town of Great Yarmouth and began making their way to peoples’ homes. An invasion was about to take place. The people of Great Yarmouth were in imminent danger, and a hundred gunners from RAF Honington and a hundred troops from…

Hidden Cold War History at Jodrell Bank Observatory!

Teaching the Cold War at the Jodrell Bank Observatory Dr Kristy Ironside and Dr Thomas Tunstall-Allcock When asked to list the various battlegrounds of the Cold War, one might readily point to the 1962 showdown between Kennedy and Khrushchev over missiles in Cuba, as well as the Korean and Vietnam proxy wars, but not the…

Sandbags, strikes and scandals: James Connolly reflects on his latest article on occupied Roubaix in 1915.

Roubaix, c. 1900. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons/ This post is a pseudo-confession: whilst my latest article will be published this month in the journal Historical Reflections, when I was researching and writing it there were often moments when I thought that it would never see the light of day. It is one of the…

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