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David Olusoga OBE’s insightful and engaging Inaugural Lecture at the University of Manchester is now available to listen online. Available as a podcast to those who were unable to attend, and to those who wish to experience the presentation again,...

The skeleton of Maharajah, Manchester’s most famous elephant, is escaping Manchester Museum to stop commuters in their tracks at Piccadilly Station. ...

A University of Manchester historian is to study the influence of Erle Stanley Gardner –creator of renowned TV attorney Perry Mason - in a bid to reveal the roots of our fascination with stories about wrongful criminal conviction. ...

A new exhibition at The John Rylands Library is set to display rare historic documents relating to the 1819 Peterloo Massacre. The exhibition is part of a city-wide programme of events commemorating Peterloo's 200th anniversary. ...

Historian, broadcaster and film-maker David Olusoga has joined The University of Manchester as a Professor of Public History. ...

A new book published by University of Manchester historians shows that the much-loved St Bernard dog we know today was a Victorian invention. ...

Jodrell Bank is has released audio recordings of a Soviet space mission from fifty years ago, just as the race to the Moon was approaching the finish line. ...

At the cutting edge of modern science, DNA sequencing promises to transform many aspects of human life. It’s already playing a significant role in law enforcement, as well as medical and historical research. But there’s a growing inequality in its im...

Researchers from The University of Manchester and Manchester Metropolitan University have launched a fascinating new book which uses maps and plans to outline the history of one the world's most iconic cities. ...

A new book by a historian from The University of Manchester has examined the relationship between Hitler and Mussolini in detail for the first time, and explores how the leaders of the most powerful fascist regimes in history entered into a fateful a...

Fake news about the dangers to Serbians from being outside during the 1999 solar eclipse resulted in the Government advising the country to stay indoors, according to new research. ...

Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. ...

Thousands of tributes left by the public to remember those killed or injured in the Manchester Arena terrorist attack will be preserved for the future, thanks to a grant made possible by National Lottery players, and with the involvement of Universit...

The University of Manchester has secured a National Lottery grant of £785,000 for ’NHS at 70: The Story of Our Lives’. The project will create the first shared social history of the National Health Service. ...

The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies has officially launched at The University of Manchester. Members of the Centre met at the John Rylands Library to inaugurate CMEMS on 24 May 2018. The event consisted of an open session to discus...

A BBC documentary revealing the life story of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst features expert insight from two University of Manchester academics. ...

A little-known medical aid society in South Wales inspired Aneurin Bevan to create the NHS, according to unique audio on a digital archive launched today, one month before the service’s seventieth anniversary. ...

Nicky Nielsen, University of Manchester It’s a great place to sit in the shade and enjoy a gelato. The base of the Flaminian Obelisk in the Piazza del Popolo on the northern end of Rome’s ancient quarter offers views of the twin churches of Santa ...

A University of Manchester historian is to highlight the untold experiences of children who were admitted to hospital in the early years of the NHS. ...

An innovative website which tells the story of Britain’s past through migration has been awarded a prestigious Royal Historical Society prize. ...

Archaeological evidence from an Egyptian excavation 200 miles east of the Libyan border has helped bust the fearsome reputation of one of the country’s most famous pharaohs. ...

Contrary to popular opinion, one of the most famous women in ancient history did not rule Egypt, according to a new book. ...

Bashar al-Assad, with his men. EPA/SANA By Rahaf Aldoughli, Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History To truly “belong” to Syria, you have to be masculine – especially in a time of war. And throughout the country’s catastrophic six-year conflic...

John Collier / Wikimedia Commons Sasha Handley, University of Manchester Most developed societies in the West are currently plagued by endemic sleep loss, falling well short of the eight hours recommended by the World Health Organisation. In p...

A scientist and historian from The University of Manchester has unearthed a document which throws light on a long-forgotten controversy in scientific publishing from the 1960s. ...

One hundred years after their deaths, The University of Manchester is holding a special event to commemorate the lives of 40 students killed in World War One who came from just one of the University’s halls of residence. ...

The Nansen passport: the innovative response to the refugee crisis that followed the Russian Revolution Russian refugees in Europe after the evacuation of Odessa, Ukraine, in 1919. Wikimedia Commmons Peter Gatrell, University of Manchester The tr...

  Thanks to a National Lottery grant, the 70 year heritage of the National Health Service is to be preserved for future generations ...

Professor Penny Tinkler has jointly led a project to discover the stories behind Shirley Baker’s famous images of everyday life in Manchester and Salford during the slum clearances of the 1960s and 1970s. ...

A historian from The University of Manchester has gone back in time to find out what we can learn from the Tudors about the quality of sleep. ...