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2022
24
August
2022
| 15:38 Europe/London
Manchester Literature Festival, the Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester are partnering again for this October’s exciting Literature Live event, bringing some of the most extraordinary contemporary writers to Manchester to discuss their
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2019
30
August
2019
| 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
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16
August
2019
| 13:16 Europe/London
On 2 August 2019 at the Friends’ Meeting House, adjacent to St. Peter’s Square, Manchester, three renowned scholars of the early 19th century gathered to offer new perspectives on the 1819 Peterloo massacre, a peaceful protest for
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28
May
2019
| 10:40 Europe/London
An innovative new podcast created by second year English Literature students from the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures transports the culture and economy of Victorian Manchester to the airwaves. Downloadable
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24
May
2019
| 15:56 Europe/London
An exciting new partnership between an English Literature and Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and the Cheshire Wildlife Trust serves to give conservation wings with
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2018
08
October
2018
| 10:00 Europe/London
The University of Manchester has welcomed a scholar and a student from the USA, who have come to the UK as the recipients of Fulbright Programme awards.
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12
September
2018
| 13:29 Europe/London
Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old.
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04
September
2018
| 23:00 Europe/London
Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain is a popular place to climb, both as part of the Three Peaks Challenge and for walkers in search of the sublime Lake District scenery. But it wasn’t always this way.
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15
June
2018
| 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
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11
June
2018
| 10:12 Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Professor of New Writing, Jeanette Winterson has been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, announced over the weekend.
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07
June
2018
| 14:01 Europe/London
Kamila Shamsie, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing, has won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction. Home Fire, which is Shamsie’s seventh novel, reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a
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05
June
2018
| 09:11 Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Professor of New Writing, Jeanette Winterson will deliver the annual Dimbleby Lecture on Wednesday 6 June.
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23
January
2018
| 10:07 Europe/London
The University of Manchester is delighted to appoint Maxine Peake as an Honorary Professor of Literature and Performance.
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08
January
2018
| 09:31 Europe/London
There are 6,000 tweets sent a second. In the time you have read this sentence, 42,000 tweets will have been sent. At an average of 34 characters per tweet that’s 1,428,000 characters. Worldwidewebsize daily estimates the size of the
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2017
01
November
2017
| 09:33 Europe/London
Manchester has been successful in its bid to join UNESCO’s worldwide Creative Cities network as a City of Literature.
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05
October
2017
| 08:00 Europe/London
John Mcauliffe, University of ManchesterAn annual cycle of intrigue and speculation, followed by the denouement – at which point the whole knotty process come to a head. Not the sagas of the political party conference season, but the
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21
July
2017
| 15:00 Europe/London
The University of Manchester has published a special edition of its literary review about African science and fantasy fiction, which includes a piece by an author whose novel is being made into a HBO series and will be produced by Game of Thrones
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2016
20
January
2016
| 17:12 Europe/London
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. ‘Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World’ invites you to explore how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone
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2015
19
November
2015
| 15:48 Europe/London
Alejo Carpentier work accidentally found by a researcher in HavanaThe manuscript is the direct antecedent of Carpentier’s most famous novel, The Lost Steps
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27
February
2015
| 10:05 Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing is proud to announce the launch of a groundbreaking new postgraduate course, designed to equip emerging screenwriting talent with the practical skills required to succeed in the UK film and
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13
February
2015
| 07:00 Europe/London
A new chaotic poem about love, created by Twitter followers, is on display from today (Friday 13 February) at The John Rylands Library in central Manchester. This Is (Not) A Love Poem is the result of a Twitter-led project to create a new chaotic
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29
January
2015
| 09:21 Europe/London
An exhibition featuring the first publisher to be credited with making literature affordable to the masses is being launched today (29 January) at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library. To coincide with the 500th anniversary
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22
January
2015
| 23:00 Europe/London
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks and rising anti-Semitism, a series of lectures at The University of Manchester will examine lessons from the Second World War to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January). Seventy years on from the
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2014
20
November
2014
| 15:08 Europe/London
The University of Manchester Library received the Safeguarding the Digital Legacy award at the international Digital Preservation Awards in London this week. The award was presented for the Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project, an
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23
October
2014
| 01:00 Europe/London
Caroline Chisholm, a PhD student at the University’s Centre for New Writing has won the inaugural Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a First Novel in this year’s Bridport Prize with her story Swimming Pool Hill. Caroline wins a cash
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2013
05
November
2013
| 00:00 Europe/London
A University of Manchester lecturer has discovered that the famous first line of English language’s oldest epic poem has been misinterpreted, ever since it was popularised almost 200 years ago. Dr George Walkden, who is a historical
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16
September
2013
| 01:00 Europe/London
University of Manchester scientist Professor Brian Cox returns to television screens in a new BBC2 series called Science Britannica starting on Wednesday 18 September. Rock-star turned scientist Professor Cox, part of the Faculty of Engineering
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26
July
2013
| 01:00 Europe/London
Two of literature’s most famous detectives had a major influence on the development of the modern crime scene investigation, according to a historian from The University of Manchester. Dr Ian Burney’s research into the history of
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09
July
2013
| 01:00 Europe/London
Academics at The University of Manchester and Bristol are marking the 700th birthday of one of the medieval world’s greatest writers, credited with establishing the European storytelling traditions we know today. Italian Giovanni Boccaccio,
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27
February
2013
| 00:00 Europe/London
A 165-year-old envelope addressed to one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers has been reunited with its letter, unexpectedly discovered by an American academic. The items, dated 8 November 1848 and penned by another influential
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