We have retold the stories of the Second World War without pause since it drew to a close in 1945. Films are an increasingly important way in which we remember the Second World War. But yet, these films, while engrossing in character and wildly popular, do not always reflect how the Second World War actually […]
For centuries, women in western Europe suffering from a long list of, sometimes vague, symptoms – including anxiety, loss of sexual desire, or too much sexual desire, insomnia and being ‘difficult’- could find themselves being labelled with the common medical diagnosis of ‘female hysteria’. We have retold the stories of the Second World War without […]
For Ancient people, worship of their physical environment was not uncommon; we have seen this in sources from Ancient Mesopotamia, whose main gods, Anu and Enlil, represented the sky and earth respectively, to the power of the material world in the Dreamtime of Aboriginal Culture. However, what seems to be truly unique is the way […]
Earlier this month, on 1 October 2017, a lone gunman named Stephen Paddock opened fire on a group of oblivious concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas. The worst mass shooting in recent US history, killing 59 people and injuring 546 more, it should have shocked the world, but did it? […]
For Ancient people, worship of their physical environment was not uncommon; we have seen this in sources from Ancient Mesopotamia, whose main gods, Anu and Enlil, represented the sky and earth respectively, to the power of the material world in the Dreamtime of Aboriginal Culture. However, what seems to be truly unique is the way […]
Welcome Week 2012 may have seemed the usual riot of massive nights, thronging freshers’ fairs, and the now obligatory Student Union indignation at some fresh disgrace by club promoters. All fuelled by enough personal pizzas to pave the way to East Didsbury and back. Same old, same old. However, there was, of course, something very […]
Carolyn Merchant’s book The Death of Nature, published in 1980, chronicles her groundbreaking theories surrounding the historiographies of the Scientific Revolution and how the changing rhetoric of science contributed to both the destruction of nature and the oppression of women. This related to a new strand of feminism called ecofeminism coined by French feminist Françoise […]
Euripides’ Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy written in 405 BC. The main conflict in Bacchae is between Dionysus and his cousin Pentheus. They act as each other’s foils throughout, with Pentheus standing for man’s rational side, and Dionysus standing for the hedonistic and irrational side. The play is centralised around both Dionysus’ assertion of […]
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 of the University of Manchester’s oldest 11-a-side football teams, having competed in the ISSL campus league for many decades. After suffering two successive relegations, the […]
Chanukah has long been seen as the Jewish equivalent of Christmas, due to being at the same time of year, also involving the giving and receiving of gifts and through TV shows like the O.C. which gave birth to the super-festival that is Christmukkah (Thank you to Seth Cohen!). Chanukah – for those of you […]
‘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 […]
This painting by Heywood Hardy is based on a rather charming story about an elephant that walked from Edinburgh to Manchester. Maharajah was an elephant in a menagerie that eventually went out of business in Edinburgh. On 9 April 1872, an auction was held in Waverley Market where all the animals were sold off. Attending […]
Many people in Poland saw the 1st of August 1944 as a call for change. By 1944, German occupation of Poland had persisted for five years, yet the Polish Home Army, an underground resistance group, took it upon themselves to liberate the capital of Warsaw. Jadwiga Klarner-Szymanowska, a 22 year old student, awaited this announcement […]
The historian Tacitus wrote, “The appearance of the country differs considerably in different parts; but in general it is covered either by bristling forests or by foul swamps”. Such was a Roman view of the whole region of Germania at the time, not just Saxony. According to Roman sources, a people known as the ‘Saxones’ […]