May 2015 – Page 5 – Manchester Historian

Over the last few months, much has been made of George Osborne’s plans to devolve a significant amount of power from Westminster to Manchester. Osborne described ‘devo-Manc’ as a ‘massive moment’ while Labour claims that the Tories are years late to the devolution party. Meanwhile, campaigning and community groups across Manchester are up in arms, Continue Reading

Charles Worsley was a soldier and politician. He fought in the First Civil War, was an enthusiastic supported of Oliver Cromwell and was Manchester’s first MP in the First Protectorate Parliament. In the First Civil War, Worsley was a captain in a Lancashire infantry regiment. A fierce persecutor of royalists, he made his name and Continue Reading

Second-year undergraduates from the University of Manchester and Liverpool John Moores University were invited to go digging in the archives on Monday, as part of a new workshop designed to introduce students to conducting original research for their final-year dissertations. ‘Advancing into the Archives’ was a one-day event held at Liverpool Records Office, giving practical Continue Reading

‘This is a story of failure.’ These words have become almost a cliché in describing the adventures and misadventures of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara and the 130 Cuban guerrillas who, from April to November 1965, trained and fought alongside the leftist rebels in the Congo. Before the publication of his ‘Reminiscences from the Revolutionary War’, thirty Continue Reading

June 19th 2015 will mark 200 years since one of the most defining battles in the history of Europe. On Sunday 19th June 1815, on a rainy morning, thousands of men awoke to take part in the Battle that would make or break Europe: Waterloo. An already once broken Napoleon had returned from exile in Continue Reading