The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Its death toll rangedfrom between 70 and 200 million people across the globe. The significance of such a horrendous disease is extraordinary, it took around 150 years for the world’s population to recover, and was not fully eradicated until the 19thcentury. On […]
Other than by the Olympians of Greece, sport has not been influenced and organised so effectively before or since the Victorians. Take a selection of sports known and cultivated by the British. I suppose football is on your list, as is rugby and probably tennis and cricket too. The Victorians had a say in all […]
After the sad loss of Tony Benn last month, the media-led marking of his passing once again demonstrated the political dimensions of remembrance. Given the extent of media bias, this process is unique in its treatment of leaders from the left of the political spectrum. In an interview with The Telegraph, Benn described this process […]
In April Bill Haley and His Comets record “Rock Around the Clock”, signalling the start of the Rock ‘n’ Roll craze. Wikimedia Commons Roger Bannister is the first to break the four minute mile on May 6, in Oxford, England. Norman Potter Central Press, Hulton Archive, Getty Images British subculture, the ‘Teddy Boys’ first appear. […]
Source: Pinterest “Sex is the driving force on the planet. We should embrace it, not see it as the enemy.” – Hugh Hefner. The man who men wanted to be, and who women wanted to be with. Throughout his college days, Hefner admired the likes of Esquire magazine and felt inspired. Seeking more than a […]
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 and have loved seeing so many of you at our events or passing by the Welcome Week Fair stall. The History vs. English Pub Crawl […]
Besides the Pharaonicera (more popularly known as the era of the Ancient Egyptians) many other Kingdoms also existed. However, very little is known about them. This article aims to provide a quick run through some of the many Kingdoms that rose and fell in Africa up till the end of the European Dark ages (anera […]
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 the way history is being taught in schools? Do you think there is too much focus on certain parts of past? Are you tired of […]
From the outset, Sebastian Faulks’s ‘Birdsong’ is a novel of parallels. Parallels between joyous youth and broken youth, love and hatred, peacetime and wartime, past and present. We are introduced to Stephen Wraysford and follow his journey through War and Peace. Faulks’s intense imagery and narration provides the reader with a graphic insight into the […]
This article is a contribution from our recent collaboration with pupils at Cedar Mount Academy. Manchester is filled with many mysteries and abandoned areas. Anywhere you go there are many abandoned buildings, parks, churches and, most interestingly: train lines. Manchester has achieved a wide variety of accomplishments with its trains throughout its history. The most […]
The liberation of Korea from its 1910 annexation by the Japanese Empire is officially recognised as having taken place in 1945 upon Japan’s surrender to the Allied forces of the Second World War. However, Korean civilian activism against the regime had a long-standing history, culminating in the 1919 March 1st Independence Movement, which saw more […]
Hannah Mcguinn reviews the Manchester Museum, a must-visit for all history grads but not only because of its proximity. Cai Reaich takes a look at the Warriors of the Plains exhibition at the Manchester Museum, on tour from the British Museum, and interviews Stephen Welsh, curator of Ethnography, about the exhibit. Jack Crutcher reviews the […]
Since the coalition government came to power in 2010, the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, has routinely been surrounded by fierce, and often acrimonious, controversy. In the time since the comprehensivisation of education in the 1960s, few Education Secretaries have courted the kind of controversy that has been created by Gove’s proposals, from the introduction of […]
In the aftermath of the Leveson debate and the heavily publicised phone hacking scandal in 2011, the freedom enjoyed by the British press has been subjected to relentless criticism. Contrastingly, China maintains an iron grip upon the reigns of its media, arguably using censorship to conceal the affairs of government from the public. Does China’s […]
