September 2013

History Society, Interviews | Ata Rahman

We got in touch with some of last year’s Manchester Historian team and found out what post-undergraduate life has brought them… Florence Holmes, co-creator of the Manchester Historian and one More »

Interviews | Feargal Logue

Feargal Logue talks to Dr Sarah Roddy

Interviews | Michael Cass

Michael J Cass: First of all, what brought you to the University of Manchester? What really took me to this institution is the fact that there’s way more to the More »

Interviews | Charlotte Johnson

Charlotte Johnson interviews two of our newest permenant staff, Dr. Sasha Handley and Dr. Paul Oldfield.

Interviews | Florence Holmes

What first interested you in history? Studying ancient Egypt at primary school made me positive I wanted to be an Egyptologist. Quite how I then made the leap to the More »

Interviews | Florence Holmes

Manchester’s Dr. Chris Godden reveals his life long relationship with economic history, and the crucial importance of its study.

Interviews | Christopher MacMahon and Katerina Vlkova

Dr. Max Jones is a senior lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. His research and teaching focuses primarily on nineteenth- and twentieth-century British history, with particular interest, among others, in heroism, gender and masculinity; monarchy, empire and national identity; and exploration and technology. We interviewed Max to uncover what history means to him.

History Society, Interviews | Ata Rahman

We got in touch with some of last year’s Manchester Historian team and found out what post-undergraduate life has brought them… Florence Holmes, co-creator of the Manchester Historian and one More »

History Society | Aamira Challenger-Mynett

Following an amazing trip to Berlin in 2012, the History Society wanted to give this year’s members the opportunity to get to know each other and delve into a new More »

History Society | Henry Henry Lee

President of the History Society Jamie Lawless speaks candidly to Henry Lee about life in the public eye, ‘that ball’ in 2012 and how he’s got himself back on track More »

History Society | Jamie Lawlor

Following our sporting theme last issue, we asked the History Society for an update on its sports team.

History Society | Jamie Lawlor

With the headaches of revision and hangovers of Pangea still strong in the memory 100 students set off for the History Society’s weekend away to Berlin. Whilst some were after More »

Reviews, What’s On | Charlie Bush

The Manchester Museum opened its newly refreshed exhibitions of archaeology and Egyptology at the end of last semester. The Museum is nestled at the very heart of the University, across More »

Reviews, What’s On | Charlie Bush

When launching the annual Bruntwood Playwriting Prize at the Royal Exchange in Manchester earlier this year, Dame Jenni Murray stated the importance of strong roles for women. She was, however, More »

What’s On | Ata Rahman

Classically, gin should be served with cubes of ice, a wedge of lime and tonic water. But where do the tonic and lime come from? Tonic contains quinine which has antimalarial properties and became an important mixer with gin for colonial British officers, initially in South Asia but also in Africa. Lime was originally added to gin to make lime juice more palatable, because it was a good countermeasure against scurvy.

What’s On | Caroline Bishop

Tea may well be our National drink, but there’s no denying the long-held, never-ending love the population of the UK has for Ale!…and Gin…and Vodka….and basically all spirits.

What’s On | Robbie Wilson

The April 1986 nuclear disaster of Chernobyl remains an infamous date throughout history. From this, the Whitworth Art Gallery’s latest exhibition of the works of British artists Jane and Louise More »

What’s On | Bethany Gent

On the 3rd of October The University of Manchester Museum opened its doors to launch the new exhibition, Breed: The British and Their Dogs. I anticipated a parade of different More »

What’s On | Charlie Bush

Polly Findlay’s production of The Country Wife at the Royal Exchange is a rampantly sexualised farce set in Seventeenth Century London. The play, so scandalised censors that it was not More »

What’s On | Robbie Wilson

The Manchester Art Gallery’s In Translation is a new collaborative exhibition displaying selected works from the Empire Marketing Board alongside new commentaries and pieces derived from the artists’ collective Ultimate More »

Reviews | Charlie Bush

I wrote in the last issue about the wonderful range of strong roles for women in the current season at the Royal Exchange and, frankly, the new production of A More »

Reviews | Ata Rahman

Exhibition by Sean Smith

Reviews | Charlie Bush

The British Museum’s Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition opened to considerable fanfare at the end of March. A number of prime-time TV documentaries heralded its coming and the Mayor of London, More »

Reviews, What’s On | Charlie Bush

The Manchester Museum opened its newly refreshed exhibitions of archaeology and Egyptology at the end of last semester. The Museum is nestled at the very heart of the University, across More »

Reviews, What’s On | Charlie Bush

When launching the annual Bruntwood Playwriting Prize at the Royal Exchange in Manchester earlier this year, Dame Jenni Murray stated the importance of strong roles for women. She was, however, More »

Reviews | Will Porter

The Didsbury Beer Festival was a three-day event, celebrating the beers, ales, perries and ciders from independent breweries throughout Britain. Returning for its fifth year the Festival has expanded both More »

Reviews | Charlotte Johnson

Exhibition at the People’s History Museum, 30 June 2012 — 24 February 2013

Reviews | Charlie Bush

This rather relatively underperformed Tennessee Williams’ play is set in the Deep South in the 40s. Claustrophobia and prejudice smothers the small town, where the parochial poison of vicious and More »

Reviews | Sahand Razavi

Manchester’s continual architectural and cultural makeover has offered a few surprises over the past decade (the controversial design of the Hilton Tower splitting Mancunian opinion in particular) yet whilst that More »

Reviews | Lewis Gordon

J Edgar Hoover was the Bureau of Investigation from 1924 until his death in 1972, a period in which he played the key role in shaping an institution that came More »