Richard Nixon resigns as President of the USA over the Watergate scandal. Wikimedia Commons ABBA wins the Eurovision song contest in Brighton with Waterloo, beginning a path to worldwide fame. Wikimedia Commons Willy Brandt resigns as West German Chancellor over the Guillaume Affair, where an East German spy, Günter Guillaume, pictured above with Brandt, had […]
‘I am Catalina, Princess of Spain, daughter of the two greatest monarchs the world has ever known…and I will be Queen of England.’ The Constant Princess delves into a story untold, depicting the life of Catherine of Aragon, born the Infanta of Spain and later becoming the first in a long line of wives to […]
The upper echelons of the Nazi party famously believed in the pseudo-science of eugenics, and thus many Nazi social policies were implemented with the intention of strengthening the genetics of the ‘Aryan’ race. The combination of the ‘social Darwinism’ in which Hitler believed, and his desire for Germany to dominate Europe and for the Third […]
Such conditions worried the early Victorian state immensely. Emerging social research confirmed that the environment as well as the physical and moral habits of a locality’s inhabitants stimulated disease and ensured its spread. The belief proliferated that sexual debauchery was at once a product of material squalor and a causal factor in the decline of […]
A bloody face: Ervin Zádor leaves pool bleeding after Olympic water polo match 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 of the tensions consequential to a month’s worth of revolt in Hungary […]
The civil rights movement was arguably one of the most important moments in American history, and both its legacy and its limits have been made evident through the resurgence of Black Lives Matter after the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020. Moreover, this period of history has become ingrained in popular memory as […]
To an outside onlooker, it seems simple. The clever logo above clearly says that the University of Manchester was (Est)ablished in 1824, right? Wrong. Well, kind of. It is well known (or at least I think it is), that in 2004 the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged together to become one conventional university, […]
The Vikings are traditionally assumed to be raiders who preyed along the coastlines, pillaging small villages and outposts.Nevertheless, the Vikings’ attacks on Paris showed they were more than this. The initial attack was in 845, when a Viking force of 120 ships and over 5000 men sailed up the Seine led by Reginherus or Ragnar. […]
Hello everyone and welcome back from reading week! We hope you have all had a great time doing plenty of reading (or plenty of nothing!) while you have been off of Uni. Now that you are all back, pressure may be starting to rise as assignments are building and deadlines are growing nearer and nearer. […]
The Museum of Science and Industry on Liverpool Road, Castlefield, is the best museum that I have been to in Manchester. It is also the biggest, and I managed to get lost inside it for fifteen minutes. Due to its size, you should definitely set aside a good few hours to explore its many exhibitions. […]
Politicians are right to be frightened of the press barons; nothing sets Fleet Street alight quite like a political corruption scandal. Over the past few weeks the public has been bombarded with coverage of Paul Flowers, who resigned as chairman of the Co-operative Bank days before a £1.5bn capital shortfall came to light, prompting a […]
Now we are firmly past Pancake Day and into the run up to Easter, many of us have given up something for Lent, the most popular choice being chocolate and all things carby and sweet. Yet the motivation for this discipline is important – not just to get your bikini body ready in time for […]
In 2008, after years of service as Minister of Defence, Raul Castro succeeded his ailing brother Fidel as the President of the Republic of Cuba. This change in leadership was due to the deteriorating health of the elder brother and was heralded by many analysts worldwide as a new political and economic epoch for the […]
Wikimedia Commons The phrase ‘The Spanish Inquisition’ which is so often used as an everyday colloquialism actually finds its roots in the twelfth century surprisingly in France rather than Spain. For many parts of Europe the Inquisition ran into the nineteenth century. The Inquisition began as a sect of the Church which sought to seek […]