You walk past it every day, but what lies behind the wall of the Manchester Museum, and what is the story behind that infamous crab? A local event with a global impact. A closer look at the life of the SAHC namesake, Samuel Alexander.
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
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 uprising of Moss Side had an air of inevitability about it. Following riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Handsworth, on 8 July 1981 Manchester became the next site of protest. When a small group of young Black men left the Nile Club, then Manchester’s leading black nightclub, they were met with jeers of “there could […]
The uprising of Moss Side had an air of inevitability about it. Following riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Handsworth, on 8 July 1981 Manchester became the next site of protest. When a small group of young Black men left the Nile Club, then Manchester’s leading black nightclub, they were met with jeers of “there could […]
The uprising of Moss Side had an air of inevitability about it. Following riots in Brixton, Toxteth and Handsworth, on 8 July 1981 Manchester became the next site of protest. When a small group of young Black men left the Nile Club, then Manchester’s leading black nightclub, they were met with jeers of “there could […]
The Didsbury Beer Festival was a three-day event, celebrating the beers, ales, perries and ciders from independent breweries throughout Britain. Returning for its fifth year the Festival has expanded both in capacity and the range of drinks on offer. It was hosted by St Catherine’s Social Club, which also provided a wide range of music […]
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
1821 was possibly the most inopportune time to begin a war for independence in Europe. A few years prior, Napoleon was crushed, and the European powers inaugurated a revived conservative status quo in the Congress of Vienna that endeavoured to prevent any further upsets to the continent’s power balance. No more shocks and a good […]
The River Tigris was said to have turned black from the ink spilled when the Mongols demolished the Great Library of Baghdad. Dresden’s Frauenkirche, an 18th-century church famed for its outstanding architecture, was ruined by British bombs during World War Two. The Great Sphinx’s nose was knocked off by a misfired cannonball from one of […]
The BLM movement illuminated the symbolic and emotional power attached to who and what councils and communities choose to exalt in civic space. In March 2021, Manchester Council conducted public consultations to ‘ensure’ the public realm was ‘holistic’ and ‘meaningfully reflected the city’s communities past and modern-day identity’. Yet questions regarding the history of revered […]
Over the past year, I have taken a particular interest in the North Manchester slums as my own family lived there until the end of WW2. They survived on what little money my Great Grandfather and his eldest sons could bring home from their work at London Road Station (now known as Piccadilly Station). But […]
Over the past year, I have taken a particular interest in the North Manchester slums as my own family lived there until the end of WW2. They survived on what little money my Great Grandfather and his eldest sons could bring home from their work at London Road Station (now known as Piccadilly Station). But […]