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Your Careers Update! – Manchester Historian

Hi, everyone! For our final careers piece this year, we just want to draw your attention to some facilities you can use before the end of the academic year and over summer. Graduate JobSearch – online Don’t waste time by looking for jobs in the wrong places. Head on over to this website (www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/findjobs/graduatejobs/grad-jobsearch), where […]

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world war II – Manchester Historian

The effect of menstruation on females in concentration camps has often been omitted from popular research. Until recently, the history of the body has been somewhat omitted from historiography regarding the Holocaust, yet menstruation must be recognised as a feature which defined the female experiences of the Holocaust. Menstruation became a symbol of the horrific […]

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Murder – Manchester Historian

Caroline Bishop reviews Lucy Worsley’s recent BBC series and book, A Very British Murder. Our morbid fascination of crime is never more virulent than in the case of the serial killer. Evie Hull looks at serial killers throughout the ages. While criminal plots do excite us, crimes of passion are the bread and butter of […]

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Byzantine Empire – Manchester Historian

During the later years of the empire, the Ottomans were overtly portrayed by Europeans as callous and tyrannical autocrats who subjugated Christians in the Balkans. Such narratives portrayed the Ottomans as a brutish Islamic empire, whose only ambition was to persecute its Christian minority. Such a notion is not entirely accurate, as it fails to […]

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Thanksgiving – Manchester Historian

To the British observer, the American celebration of Thanksgiving can seem quite a strange and alien affair. In fact Thanksgiving stems from the tradition in many European countries of celebrating the Harvest. However the American tradition isthe most well known and widely celebrated. Though alike with its European contemporaries in giving thanks for plentiful food, […]

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How bikes changed our history – Manchester Historian

The concepts of mobility and freedom are centuries-old, yet little has shaped their history more than the bicycle. German Karl Von Drais created the first commercially successful, two-wheeled vehicle in 1818. He called it the velocipede and across Europe Drais’ design was copied and reinvented as fashionable. It was, however, confined to an aristocratic market […]

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geneva convention – Manchester Historian

As yet another state breaks international law, chemical weapons are again at the forefront of the debate about human rights. Tom Oliver looks at how has the rhetoric of human rights developed since its inception.

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Victoria, Queen of Christmas – Manchester Historian

Christmas time, a wondrous time that means to most people happiness and celebration with family and friends. But where did it all begin? The lavishly decorated Christmas trees, intricate Christmas cards and cheesy Christmas crackers are a fairly new phenomenon, and we have Queen Victoria and her fellow Victorians to thank for their popularity during […]

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Freddie Melvin – Manchester Historian

Having been newly promoted to Division 1, History FC in the 2016-17 season led an inspiring campaign against the odds. The season began badly, with a thumping 4-1 defeat at the hands of Division 1 veterans Geography FC. Having to quickly find our feet, we decided to mirror Antonio Conte’s tactical success in the Premier […]

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Hooray for Henry Holland – Manchester Historian

‘I’ll show you who’s boss, Kate Moss’. Henry Holland was working on the teen magazine Bliss when he soared to fame with his tongue in cheek catchphrase T-shirts. Everyone whose anyone would recognise his rhyming slogan t-shirts, he’s best friends with supermodel Agyness Deyne, but what of the man behind the madness. Holland was born […]

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Lucretia – Manchester Historian

In 500 BC, in a relatively obscure kingdom in Italy, a noblewoman was raped by the son of the king. 2,200 years later, the American Constitution was enshrined into law after the success of the American Revolution. If you believe in the butterfly effect, you may think that the latter might have never happened without […]

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Planes, trains and automobiles – Manchester Historian

In November 2003 the last Concorde flew from New York to London, marking the end of an era and arguably the last peak of technological advancement in commercial travel. In 2011, NASA prepared to launch its last space shuttle, ending an era of over 30 years of space exploration, not quite beginning, but most famously […]

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Features – Page 39 – Manchester Historian

A brief look into the historiography of one of England’s greatest legends. The eruption of Pompeii is one of classical civilisation’s most documented events. This article uncovers the secret sexuality embedded in Roman society. The Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste. Julius Caesar gave us our modern calendar of 12 months. Originally there were […]

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Idi Amin: The Expulsion of South Asians from Uganda – Manchester Historian

Since Idi Amin did not write an autobiography, research on his background is limited. Amin was born in 1923 in either Koboko or Kampala. A researcher from Makerere University has stated that Amin was the son of Andreas Nyabire, who converted from Roman Catholicism to Islam and changed his name to Amin Dada. Andreas abandoned […]

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