Past events in History

'Activism and The Home' Workshop

For the AHRC-funded network 'Challenging Domesticity in Britain, 1890-1990', the University of Manch...

History lunchtime seminar: Misha Ewen - Women and the economy in the early modern English Empire

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History research seminar: Anne Murphy (Hertfordshire) 'Embracing change: 'economical reform' at the 18th-century Bank of England'

History lunchtime seminar: Henry Miller - The material culture and practice of petitioning in the UK, 1780-1918

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History Research Seminar: Clare Hickman (University of Newcastle) - 'Pine Fresh: A history of pine aroma and health from the sanatorium to the domestic bathroom'

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History lunchtime seminar: Chrisoula Lionis - Humour in States of ‘Occupation’: Contemporary Art and Cultural Resilience in Palestine, Greece and Australia

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Remembering Biafra: Public History for Community Empowerment

January 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigeria-Biafra war (1967-1970). The Nigeri...

'Race and respectability in mid-twentieth-century London'

Rob Waters (Queen Mary) 'Race and respectability in mid-twentieth-century London'

Discovering Caribbean Family Memories: Part of the Being Human Festival

Manchester is home to a vibrant and diverse Caribbean community and during this workshop you can dis...

Discovering Emigrant Children

This event offers the unique chance to learn about the 90,000 orphaned British children who forcibly...