pop culture – Manchester Historian

It is the truth universally acknowledged that all students must watch the infamous ‘Gap Yah’ video. If you have ever laughed along to one of your flatmates’ jokes about how they, ‘chundered everywharr’ the night before, but had no idea what it was that everyone found so funny, then you have failed yourself. However, even Continue Reading

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 Continue Reading

‘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 Continue Reading