Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs
The canvas on which tattooing is etched on may only be skin deep, but the history of this art form goes much deeper. If, like me, you have partaken in the joy of the needle (having a professional doodler draw upon your skin not, I hasten to add, drugs) we are participating in a social […]
Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs
Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs
“Four score and seven years ago…” So began one of the most iconic speeches in modern history, spoken by the President who led the USA through the horrors of the Civil War and ended the legal practice of slavery. You can’t deny it, Abraham Lincoln is everywhere in the USA from the colossal Lincoln Memorial, […]
Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs
Evie Hull visited the Dior exhibition at the Costume Gallery in Platt Hall which comes to a close in January. Manchester’s continual architectural and cultural makeover has offered a few surprises over the past decade (the controversial design of the Hilton Tower splitting Mancunian opinion in particular) yet whilst that particular building has proved divisive, […]
We are all familiar with the faces of the famous splashed across billboards, TVs and magazines dubiously endorsing all manner of products from face creams to funeral services. Alex Hulmes looks at celebrity branding through history.
One of the most controversial episodes of October 2012 was the revelation that many multinational companies, including Starbucks, Apple and Google, have been evading corporate taxes in the UK through tax management schemes. Most strikingly, all of these schemes have been legal leading to suggestions that such companies have undue influence over politicians in this […]
To an outside onlooker, it seems simple. The clever logo above clearly says that the University of Manchester was (Est)ablished in 1824, right? Wrong. Well, kind of. It is well known (or at least I think it is), that in 2004 the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged together to become one conventional university, […]
Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs
Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs
At the turn of the nineteenth century when the Industrial Revolution was transforming Britain’s economy, manufacturing and commercial enterprises needed credit and investment; hence the proliferation of financial institutions across the country. Lloyds and Barclays were but a few of the banking giants that began in the nineteenth century and still exist to this day. […]
Here is a brand new blog post by Dr Stephen Mossman, member of The Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective! Read below about the new exhibition at the @TheJohnRylands ‘Transitions in Print: Revealing Secrets of the European Printing Revolution’! https://t.co/NLHKxDgxMs