University | Caitlin Hughes The History Netball squad are continuing their success with their most recent matches seeing an exceptional 25 – 4 win against Medics and a 25 – 17 win against MSUOTC. More » University | Caitlin Hughes Fresh from their outstanding 22-8 win against PGCE, History Netball are training hard for the […]
Behind The Headlines | Laura Callard Since the eighteenth century, women and men across the globe have fought to create a future free from gender discrimination. Whilst many battles have been won, the war is not More » Behind The Headlines | Laura Callard On November 13th 2015, the City of Lights became dark. Awash […]
University | Araddhna Patel According to the University of Manchester, the aims of the Peer Mentoring Scheme are to enhance the quality, quantity, and diversity of student learning within a discipline and involve students More » University | Caitlin Hughes Fresh from their outstanding 22-8 win against PGCE, History Netball are training hard for the […]
University | Wesley Davidson Wesley Davidson reflects on his time as a Masters student at Manchester. University | Wesley Davidson Having recently completed his MA, Wesley Davidson reflects on his specialism, Northern Soul. Features | Wesley Davidson One of the packages includes a bar crawl through Krakow, a visit to a lap dancing club, followed […]
History You Should Know | Melanie Fernandes In approximately 100 days between April and June of 1994, an estimated 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered by Hutu extremists. The extremists targeted members of the Tutsi minority community who made More » History You Should Know | Kate Ayling Magdalene asylums, also known as ‘Magdalene laundries’, emerged in […]
History You Should Know | Sarah Wallis 6 December 1956: The closing moments of an Olympic water polo match. Hungarian Ervin Zádor leaves the pool bleeding due to a punch from Soviet player Valentin Prokopov. The fracas? Evidence More »
History You Should Know | Dan O’Byrne Simón Bolívar, or el Libertador as he is known, is one of the most important figures in South American history. When Bolívar was born in 1783, in what is today More » History You Should Know | Dan O’Byrne The Mongol Empire was one of the largest empires […]
Features | Eleanor Johnson Emperor Nero is as infamous for his brutal measures and unstable mental health as his politics. But what about the man himself? The Manchester Historian sets out to uncover the man behind the madness.
Former editor of the Manchester Historian. Features | Alexis Pantelides, Frankie Williams and Juliette Donaldson The Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste. Julius Caesar gave us our modern calendar of 12 months. Originally there were only 10 months, running from March to December, but More »
In Photos | Kate Curtis Kate Curtis summarises 1943 in ten photos from around the globe. In Photos | Jamie Sinnott-Davies Jamie Sinnott-Davies summarises 1943 in ten photos from around the globe. Features, In Photos | Charlotte Johnson and Alice Rigby Charlotte Johnson and Alice Rigby look at central London’s Christmas lights from its conception […]
University | Zoey Strzelecki Second-year undergraduates from the University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University were invited to go digging in the archives on Monday, as part of a new workshop designed to More » In Photos | Zoey Strzelecki 1. January 20 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to a fourth term as […]
University | Xan Atkins ‘You’ll have to excuse my lack of voice’ says Dr Insley as I take a seat opposite him, on a desk stacked with papers. The office is crammed with books More » Features | Xan Atkins June 19th 2015 will mark 200 years since one of the most defining battles in […]
In Photos | Mattea Bubalo Throne Hall in Knossos (Wikimedia Commons) Fire and Energy (Morgan Hill Times) The Problem Solvings of Archimedes (Wikimedia Commons) Statue of Tiberius (Wikimedia Commons) Aryabhatacrp (Wikimedia Commons) Alexander More » University | Mattea Bubalo I was lucky enough to interview the History department’s most electric member: DrYangwen Zheng. […]
History You Should Know | Will Bain Born on 8 January 1935 in Tupelo, Mississippi, Elvis was born with an identical twin, Jesse, who was delivered stillborn. With no other siblings, Elvis grew a close attachment to More » Editors’ Notes | Araddhna Patel and Will Bain During the development of this summer issue of […]