Women in History | Nicole Campbell
During the early to mid-20th century, five million African-Americans made the passage from the former slave-holding south to the industrialised cities of the north and west United States. Cruel Jim More »
University | Dan Bunter
Having recruited a talented squad, History FC have started the 2015-16 season with great promise and are currently second in Division 2, as well as winning in the first round More »
Behind The Headlines, University | Dan Bunter
After weeks of advertising and holding trials, History FC has now assembled a very strong squad, preparing for the first league fixture on Wednesday 7th October. History FC is one More »
Editors’ Notes, University | Jamie Taylor
Thank you everyone who made it to our annual Staff/Student Pub Quiz! We had a great turnout, filling the entire of 256, and some great competitive spirit among you all. More »
Editors’ Notes, University | Jamie Taylor
Hello everyone, and welcome to the History Society for the 2015/16 academic year! After a very busy Welcome Week and Week 1, we’ve kicked the year off with a bang More »
Features | Jamie Taylor
Most students at the University of Manchester have become very familiar with the campus and buildings around us. But, have any of you ever wondered how the institution which surrounds More »
History You Should Know | Jamie Taylor
“A co-operative is a group of people acting together to meet the common needs and aspirations of its members, sharing ownership and making decisions democratically.” Co-operative movements exist all over More »
Features | Jamie Taylor
Witchcraft was something which expanded greatly during the medieval period, particularly from the onset of the fifteenth century. It had been developed from a long tradition of ecclesiastical and secular More »
University | Pippa Stannard
A glimpse at the tragic, heroic but often forgotten life of one of Britain’s wartime heroes.
University | Sophia White
We all spend hours in the library, but how much do we know about its namesake?
University | Aditya Iyer
An examination of the life of Britain’s most controversial historian, A.J.P. Taylor.
University | Samantha Brill
A closer look at the life of the SAHC namesake, Samuel Alexander.
Women in History | Katy Roughton
Feminism as a movement has evolved dramatically since its popularisation in the mid twentieth century. Today, modern Western feminists use their keyboards as their weapons substituting for the more provocative More »
History You Should Know | Katy Roughton
The ‘Quakers’, or the Religious Society of Friends, stretch back to the 1600s in Cumbria when local George Fox, disillusioned with the church at the time, said that he had More »
History Lesson | Fraser Corrywright
‘Oh What an Artist dies in me’- Nero as he died. Emperor Nero is a famously vicious Roman princeps in a dynasty of similarly notorious individuals. The extent to which More »
Features | Fraser Corrywright
The period of Barbarian Migration which marked the decline and fall of the Roman Empire covers quite a large period of history, ranging from the 4th century right up to More »
Editors’ Notes | Charlie Bush and Ata Rahman
I’m really happy with how the Historian has progressed this term. The team’s been working incredibly hard at coming up with ways to incorporate a more contemporary angle and I’m More »
Editors’ Notes | Ata Rahman and Charlie Bush
Welcome to this year’s first issue of the Manchester Historian. Ata and I are really excited to take over as editors. Florence and her team last year got the paper More »
Editors’ Notes | Florence Holmes, Frankie Williams and Juliette Donaldson
Welcome to Issue 4! A big thank you to everyone who participated in the facebook event we used to give out articles – it was a huge success! We will More »
Editors’ Notes | Florence Holmes, Juliette Donaldson and Frankie Williams
Welcome to the new look Manchester Historian! Issue 3 has seen an expansion in the production team so we are finishing the year bigger and better than ever. We’re so More »
Editors’ Notes | Florence Holmes, Frankie Williams and Juliette Donaldson
Welcome back to the first edition of this year’s Manchester Historian! For those of you who don’t already know we are the departmental student led newspaper. Do you agree with More »
History You Should Know | Vivienne Daly
The Anglo-Irish Treaty, officially the ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland’, signed on the 6th December 1921, concluded the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) following the Sinn More »
History You Should Know | Nina Khan
Human trafficking is the world’s third largest underground network, deeply entrenched in both the developed and third world. Measures to curb human trafficking are continually being revised to ensure that More »
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 the late 18th century to house “fallen women”. Originally this meant women who worked in prostitution, but this term gradually expanded More »
History You Should Know | Katy Roughton
The ‘Quakers’, or the Religious Society of Friends, stretch back to the 1600s in Cumbria when local George Fox, disillusioned with the church at the time, said that he had More »
Behind The Headlines, Features | Ravi Gembali
Black Friday is the day following thanksgiving, which, for years, has been associated with a shopping frenzy due to the promotion of goodswith huge discounts all over the country. It More »
Behind The Headlines | Ravi Gembali
Bernie Madoff created a Ponzi scheme which went unnoticed over 20 years and managed to secure $65bn of investment. How did this scheme work? Madoff set up an investment firm, More »
Behind The Headlines | Ravi Gembali
In the past 20 years, the influx of migrants to the UK has been steadily rising. Figures show that in the last 5 years alone, net long-term migration to the More »
History You Should Know | Sophie Bullock
The act of changing one’s skin colour is a historical practice that continues into the present day. In a world in which both temporary and permanent modification of skin colour More »
Features, Women in History | Sophie Bullock
Most famous for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or Life Among the Lowly, the writer Harriet Beecher Stowe was an abolitionist whose writings had a profound effect on the public More »
Features | Sophie Bullock
When we think of children and the workhouse, Oliver Twist is the ubiquitous image that comes to the minds of many people. Whilst the fictional Oliver’s experience as an orphan More »
History You Should Know | Sophie Bullock
When studying the outbreak of the First World War, the death of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, is an established catalyst in starting the war that More »
History in Culture | Sophie Bullock
Forget the John Lewis Christmas advert: as far as traditions go, the Trafalgar Square Christmas tree given to Britain by Norway is one of the most established and deeply More »