Doctor Who has never been more popular. A staggering 1.1% of the world’s population watched its 50th anniversary special. How did an eccentric old man in a blue box captivate the hearts and imaginations of so many? Its origins lie in a political context besieged with nuclear threat and the thrills and dangers of the […]
The recent centenary of WWI was marked by BBC3’s ‘Our World War’, an attempt to engage a new generation with such a massive event. The three-part programme is a compelling mixture of historical and social drama, based on real diaries of British soldiers from 1914-1918. All the archetypal aspects of a war drama are present: […]
There are a number of unwritten rules that surface during an American Presidential Election with alarming alacrity. A small town in New Hampshire will be the first to declare its results after the 34 voters have cast their ballots, no Republican wins without taking Ohio’s 18 Electoral College votes, and the calamitous inevitability of something […]
Nov. 5, 1930: Norma Shearer with best oscar for best actress in movie “The Divorcee.” Was used in book High Exposure: Hollywood Lives – Found Photos from the Archives of the Los Angeles Times.” Is AP photo. Shows up in AP photo archives.
We are excited to announce that the 37th issue ‘Oppression and Resistance’ is now online! A huge thank you to everyone who has worked on this issue! This issue is also available to view on Issuu, here.
Peer Mentoring Student Coordinator Sophie Praill gives some advice on beginning a History degree at the University of Manchester. The increasing reliance upon ‘online teaching’ has caused contention among some students who feel they are not getting enough for their money, with such little contact hours and an emphasis on self-study. The launch of Blackboard […]
The River Tigris was said to have turned black from the ink spilled when the Mongols demolished the Great Library of Baghdad. Dresden’s Frauenkirche, an 18th-century church famed for its outstanding architecture, was ruined by British bombs during World War Two. The Great Sphinx’s nose was knocked off by a misfired cannonball from one of […]
The Queen and runners up of the Century of Progress World Fair held in Chicago. (Photo courtesy of John Chuckman) Hugh Gray was walking along the loch after church when he spotted a substantial commotion in the water. This picture is the first known image allegedly taken of the Loch Ness Monster. (Public Domain) Albert […]
There are a number of unwritten rules that surface during an American Presidential Election with alarming alacrity. A small town in New Hampshire will be the first to declare its results after the 34 voters have cast their ballots, no Republican wins without taking Ohio’s 18 Electoral College votes, and the calamitous inevitability of something […]
A South Vietnamese Marine, severely wounded in a Viet Cong ambush, is comforted by a comrade in a sugar cane field at Duc Hoa, about 12 miles from Saigon, Aug. 5, 1963. A platoon of 30 Vietnamese Marines was searching for communist guerrillas when a long burst of automatic fire killed one Marine and wounded […]
Toni Morrison, beloved American author and literary scholar, is best remembered for her razor-sharp prose. In the wake of her death in 2019, scholars have revisited her life’s works, revealing a depth of understanding of black American history previously unappreciated. In an English Literature Modernism module somewhere inside a Science Faculty building on Oxford Road […]
For decades, unrecognised for his work and deliberately forgotten, Rustin made possible many of the key cornerstones of civil rights which would otherwise have not seen the light of day Writing in her seminal Art on My Mind: Visual Politics, bell hooks observed that “white folks often have greater access to the work of black […]
Manchester University may have produced more Nobel Prize winners than any other non-Oxbridge city, yet we can also make a claim no less necessary in retaining the peace and happiness of the human race; the university has produced a veritable bundle of comedy greats over the last 30 years. Where would TV comedy be without […]
The ideological movement that developed in Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, known universally as “The Enlightenment”, had a significant impact on the struggle for American independence. The ‘American Enlightenment’ combined an engaging political scene with a proactive military objective for sovereignty, creating a revolutionary war that was unparalleled in scope or ferocity in […]