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The Manchester Historian The University of Manchester's history departmental magazine. Produced by students, for students.

The Manchester Historian is a newspaper written, produced, edited and distributed by students in the University of Manchester's History department.

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Issue 40 is now in print! 👏🏼 you can pick up a copy from the history common room 🥳 thank you to our brilliant team and t...
06/06/2022

Issue 40 is now in print! 👏🏼 you can pick up a copy from the history common room 🥳 thank you to our brilliant team and to our contributors for helping us put our 40th edition together! Happy reading 🐝

11/05/2022
Jewish History in Manchester, By Kate Ashcroft
25/04/2022
Jewish History in Manchester, By Kate Ashcroft

Jewish History in Manchester, By Kate Ashcroft

The history of the Jewish community in Manchester can be traced back to the 1780s, when a man named Jacob Nathan became the first known Jewish resident in the city. At this time, there were no syna…

Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy, by Caitlin Sellis
19/04/2022
Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy, by Caitlin Sellis

Alan Turing’s Life and Legacy, by Caitlin Sellis

On the 10th September 2009, the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, issued an apology to Alan Turing, culminating with the words “we’re sorry, you deserved so much better”. This apology came over…

Here is the first article from our upcoming issue on Manchester history!  🐝 Keep an eye on our website as we post more a...
10/04/2022
The History of the Pankhurst Centre, by Sophie Watkins

Here is the first article from our upcoming issue on Manchester history! 🐝 Keep an eye on our website as we post more articles over Easter 👏🏼

Tucked away behind the multi-storey car park of Manchester Royal Infirmary lies the birth of the Suffragette movement: the Pankhurst Centre. Once the home of radical feminist pioneers, the Pankhurs…

🖊 WRITERS WANTED! 🖊 The Manchester Historian is looking for writers for its next edition!  To celebrate 40 issues of the...
13/03/2022
Issue 40 - Manchester History Special

🖊 WRITERS WANTED! 🖊

The Manchester Historian is looking for writers for its next edition! To celebrate 40 issues of the magazine we are dedicating this issue entirely to Manchester history 🐝

Please see the prompts list below for a list of article suggestions and more details - we accept articles from all UoM students no matter what level or discipline. We also welcome articles that are not from the prompts list.

The deadline for reserving topics is 6pm on Monday 20th March, and the deadline for submitting final articles is 6pm on Monday 28th March. Email [email protected] if you have any questions - week look forward to hearing from you! 😊

Issue 40 - Manchester History Special Edition 🐝 To celebrate 40 issues of the Manchester Historian, we are dedicating our next edition entirely to the history of Manchester! We want to showcase, celebrate and critique our city’s rich history, be it from a social, cultural, political or economi....

So pleased to announce that our 39th issue, ‘Commemoration and Remembrance’ has been printed! 🥳 thank you to everyone wh...
10/02/2022

So pleased to announce that our 39th issue, ‘Commemoration and Remembrance’ has been printed! 🥳 thank you to everyone who wrote for this edition and to the whole Manchester Historian team for helping put this collection of articles together. 🙌🏼

You can pick up a copy from the history common room (Samuel Alexander building) and all articles are also available to read digitally on our website. We’ll be starting work on issue 40 soon - in the meantime, happy reading! 📰👏🏼

25/12/2021

🎄🎄🎄 Merry Christmas from the Manchester Historian team! 🎄🎄🎄

The Deadly Legacy of the Vietnam War, By Eve Henley
23/12/2021
The Deadly Legacy of the Vietnam War, By Eve Henley

The Deadly Legacy of the Vietnam War, By Eve Henley

Upon visiting Phong Nah-Ke Bang – a national park located in the middle of the Annamite Mountains in Vietnam – I was stunned to observe that exploration was not advised without a map ma…

16/12/2021

The editorial team at our student publication The Manchester Historian have been working hard crafting the latest issue of their mag and a brand new podcast!🎙️

Listen to the first 4 episodes on SoundCloud or Apple Podcasts now👇
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10 Years Since the Arab Spring, by Erin Barnett
16/12/2021
10 Years Since the Arab Spring, by Erin Barnett

10 Years Since the Arab Spring, by Erin Barnett

10 years on from the Arab Spring, we must look back on what happened and why. The Arab Spring was a pro-democracy uprising that spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). By mid-201…

Fidel Castro and the Spirit of Cuba, by James Butler
16/12/2021
Fidel Castro and the Spirit of Cuba, by James Butler

Fidel Castro and the Spirit of Cuba, by James Butler

The people of Cuba possess a revolutionary spirit, one of passion, selflessness, tenacity, and long-suffering, unlike that of many other nations. As of 2021, it has been 10 years since Fidel Castro…

Engels in Manchester, By Shikhar Talwar
09/12/2021
Engels in Manchester, By Shikhar Talwar

Engels in Manchester, By Shikhar Talwar

Friedrich Engels, by virtue of a statue in Deansgate, is ingrained in the heart of the city of Manchester. But how did a German man, who co-wrote the communist manifesto, become a Mancunian icon? W…

Remembering the Falklands War, By Louise Clare
09/12/2021
Remembering the Falklands War, By Louise Clare

Remembering the Falklands War, By Louise Clare

The seventy-four day event which Buenos Aires classed as ‘a war’ and London classed as ‘a conflict’, began on 2nd April 1982. This was when, from the British perspective, Argentine forces invaded t…

The Battle of Agincourt in Historical Memory, By Gareth Lewis
09/12/2021
The Battle of Agincourt in Historical Memory, By Gareth Lewis

The Battle of Agincourt in Historical Memory, By Gareth Lewis

The story of the Battle of Agincourt follows the age-old narrative of the beloved underdog rising against the odds. A legacy of victory and glory would become synonymous with Henry V after this epi…

Commemorating the Babi Yar Massacre, by James Newman
06/12/2021
Commemorating the Babi Yar Massacre, by James Newman

Commemorating the Babi Yar Massacre, by James Newman

Babi Yar, a name synonymous with the Holocaust. On the 29th and 30th of September 1941 alone 33,171 Jews were killed by SS Einsatzgruppen death squads, assisted by the Wehrmacht and Ukrainian colla…

100 Years Since the End of the Russian Civil War, By Elliott Cousins
06/12/2021
100 Years Since the End of the Russian Civil War, By Elliott Cousins

100 Years Since the End of the Russian Civil War, By Elliott Cousins

The Russian Civil War (1917-1922) broke out after the Bolshevik seizure of power between the Bolshevik Red Army and anti-Bolshevik White armies. Victory in the Civil War saw the true consolidation …

The Armenian Genocide – a Forgotten Genocide? By Melissa Croxford
02/12/2021
The Armenian Genocide – a Forgotten Genocide? By Melissa Croxford

The Armenian Genocide – a Forgotten Genocide? By Melissa Croxford

The date April 24th, 2015, marked the centenary of the beginning of the horrific Armenian Genocide. Both the event and the commemoration of it accompanies a highly controversial debate over the na…

Who were Ellen and William Craft? By Emily Hunt
02/12/2021
Who were Ellen and William Craft? By Emily Hunt

Who were Ellen and William Craft? By Emily Hunt

On Thursday 30th of September 2021, a blue English Heritage plaque was unveiled in Hammersmith, commemorating the residence of Ellen and William Craft. The Crafts were an African American couple wh…

100 Years of Northern Ireland: How do we Remember? By Annie Hackett
02/12/2021
100 Years of Northern Ireland: How do we Remember? By Annie Hackett

100 Years of Northern Ireland: How do we Remember? By Annie Hackett

On May 3rd, 2021, Northern Ireland commemorated its 100th anniversary as a separate legal entity within the United Kingdom. This raised the question: how do we commemorate a state with a history of…

Our latest podcast is up on SoundCloud!  This week our team discussed Remembrance Day.  Have a listen 👏🏼
14/11/2021
Remembrance Day

Our latest podcast is up on SoundCloud! This week our team discussed Remembrance Day. Have a listen 👏🏼

This week we discuss Remembrance Day and what it means to each of us. We also touch upon the issues that surround remembrance day and discuss possible solutions to these issues.

30/10/2021

The deadline for reserving titles for Issue 39 has now passed! Thank you for all the wonderful ideas that have been suggested, we can't wait to read all your submissions and put this issue together! 🥳

Hello everyone 🖐The Manchester Historian is looking for writers for its upcoming issue!  Issue 39: Commemoration and Rem...
19/10/2021
Commemoration and Remembrance

Hello everyone 🖐

The Manchester Historian is looking for writers for its upcoming issue!

Issue 39: Commemoration and Remembrance

Please go to the link below to view our list of article prompts for the next issue. These are only suggestions - we encourage submissions that are not on the list, and do feel free to tailor our suggestions to suit your interests. We welcome writers from all schools, disciplines and levels of study so don't shy away if you're not a history student! Articles are only 450 or 900 words and don't need to include references or sources, it's not a lot of extra work. :)

If you would like to write for us, please email an article title and a brief plan to [email protected] by 11pm on Friday 29th October. The final deadline for article submissions is Friday 5th November at 11pm.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Issue 39 - Commemoration and Remembrance Issue 39 will focus on commemoration and remembrance in relation to historical and contemporary events/traditions. Our prompt list includes some specific suggestions that link to historical anniversaries which have either taken place or will take place...

Here's another article from our next edition, Language and Culture, in which Hannah Teegar discusses what the developmen...
03/05/2021
From Colonial Subject to Criminals: Exploring why forensic fingerprinting developed in Colonial India, and its subsequent transfer to Victorian Britain, By Hannah Teeger

Here's another article from our next edition, Language and Culture, in which Hannah Teegar discusses what the development of fingerprinting in India might tell us about the treatment of colonial subjects 👇

Modern detective novels and television dramas have captured public imagination for over a century. Forensic fingerprinting features in nearly every single one. Whilst the practise is one many are f…

"In striving for modernity, such themes were often deemed “unspeakable” and did not coincide with the clean and respecta...
23/03/2021
How and why did tolerance towards male homosexuality disappear in Meiji Japan? By Isabel Fountain

"In striving for modernity, such themes were often deemed “unspeakable” and did not coincide with the clean and respectable image that officials were aiming to create." - Isabel Fountain for Issue 38 ✍️

The Meiji Restoration was a movement spearheaded by government officials, which prioritized the “modernisation” of Japan by abolishing the previous feudal Tokugawa shogunate and changing existing s…

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