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2023
25
May
2023
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12:09
Europe/London
A new briefing from The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Runnymede Trust has highlighted the need to use teacher training and Initial Teaching Education (ITE) to develop a more diverse and inclusive curric...
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2022
08
November
2022
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09:00
Europe/London
An Art History expert from The University of Manchester has written the first in-depth account of the story behind the twelve extraordinary murals in Manchester Town Hall, which he says reveal a remarkable Victorian vision of the city....
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22
September
2022
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15:38
Europe/London
Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell, our President and Vice-Chancellor, already expressed The University’s profound condolences to the Royal Family on the death of the late Queen and with them thanksgiving for her life of dedicated public service. Staff a...
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21
September
2022
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15:06
Europe/London
The Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development is a new interdisciplinary research group in economic history and comparative development at the University of Manchester.The lab will promote cutting-edge research on economic growth and development, ...
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25
August
2022
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09:29
Europe/London
In 2021, more babies – 51% – were born to unmarried mothers in England and Wales than to those in a marriage or civil partnership for the first time since records began in 1845. This is a huge change. For centuries, “illegitimacy” and unmarried paren...
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18
July
2022
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10:55
Europe/London
Aimed at Bangladeshi audiences in the North-West, ‘Migrant songs 1950s-80s: Preserving Bangladeshi musical heritage in the North-West’ has been designed to showcase folk music in tribute to the migrant experience in the region. Led by Anindita Ghosh...
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13
January
2022
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10:06
Europe/London
In June 2022 (Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 June) a festival exploring climate change will take place across Greater Manchester. Led by Manchester Histories, The History of Climate Change will be full of exhibitions, talks, creativity and more. The History ...
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2021
14
January
2021
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16:13
Europe/London
Due to popular demand, the deadline for entries for The University of Manchester Making a Difference Awards has been extended.The new closing date is midnight on 24 January 2021. It is hoped the extension will help anyone struggling to meet the deadl...
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2020
29
October
2020
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16:25
Europe/London
Dr Alexia Yates, Senior Lecturer in Modern History, and Dr Stefan Hanß, Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Manchester, have been awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2020 worth £100,000 in recognition of their outstanding resea...
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02
September
2020
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16:16
Europe/London
Students from The University of Manchester’s Department of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology are exploring intriguing discussion points about ancient societies and history in a podcast series that is going from strength to strengt...
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26
February
2020
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12:01
Europe/London
Professor Peter Gatrell from the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at The University of Manchester is one of five authors to have their books shortlisted for the prestigious 2020 Lionel Gelber Prize.
His book titled The Unsettlin...
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06
February
2020
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10:05
Europe/London
Manchester Central Library hosted a day-long event to reflect on the complex history and legacies of the Nigeria-Biafra war.
Even though the conflict lasted less than three years (July 1967 to January 1970), the Biafra War marked a rupture in the ...
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27
January
2020
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14:44
Europe/London
Challenging domesticity in 1890-1990s Britain will be on the table at a new workshop ‘Activism and the home’ hosted by The University of Manchester and The Pankhurst Centre on 3 April 2020.
Historians and heritage practitioners will be squaring up...
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2019
30
August
2019
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12:33
Europe/London
Ideas were flying at a three-day event to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre in Manchester, which brought thought-leaders from the arts together to discuss the theme ‘Romanticism now and then’.
On 31 July - 2 August 2, 184 delegat...
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07
January
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
Historian, broadcaster and film-maker David Olusoga has joined The University of Manchester as a Professor of Public History.
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2018
26
October
2018
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12:15
Europe/London
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...
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24
September
2018
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11:46
Europe/London
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...
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15
June
2018
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16:01
Europe/London
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...
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06
June
2018
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16:20
Europe/London
A BBC documentary revealing the life story of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst features expert insight from two University of Manchester academics.
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22
May
2018
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14:06
Europe/London
The School of Arts, Languages and Cultures is delighted to be part of the Manchester Histories Festival 2018.
Returning for its 5th edition from 7 to 11 June 2018, the biennial Manchester Histories Festival will offer a packed long-weekender of di...
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30
January
2018
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09:21
Europe/London
An innovative website which tells the story of Britain’s past through migration has been awarded a prestigious Royal Historical Society prize.
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2017
13
December
2017
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16:18
Europe/London
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...
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21
November
2017
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17:16
Europe/London
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...
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06
November
2017
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10:49
Europe/London
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...
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09
May
2017
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12:22
Europe/London
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.
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