The eleventh day, of the eleventh month, at the eleventh hour: Armistice Day. The last day of the First World War is a date deeply embedded in European culture. The day, which will celebrate its ninety-ninth anniversary this year, commemorates the signing of the armistice by the Allies and Germany to end the war. The […]
Nowadays, Britain looks on as a plethora of religions, ethnicities and cultures celebrate their traditions in this now-diverse nation. But why is it that we don’t have our own? 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 […]
John Downey, accused Hyde Park bomber, recently walked free from the Old Bailey. Ben Beach looks at the ongoing and sometimes controversial process of pacification in Ireland. With the situation rapidly escalating in Ukraine, Vivienne Delliou-Daly questions whether the Cold War is really over, exploring the ongoing tension between east and west. Last month, we […]
Angela Buckley’s The Real Sherlock Holmes is Jerome Caminada, the infamous Manchester Detective. Amelia Fletcher-Jones interviews Angela and review the book. Victorian leisure and crime historian, Andrew Davies recently spoke about his book, Gangs of Manchester at a late night lecture at the Manchester Art Gallery. Charlotte Johnson interviews him about his past and current […]
The Manchester Historian If you are a current student at The University of Manchester, or a History alumnus, please get in touch by email with article ideas. We welcome submissions from all students, and if you would like to write for us at any point in the year, we would love to hear from you! […]
The Manchester Historian If you are a current student at The University of Manchester, or a History alumnus, please get in touch by email with article ideas. We welcome submissions from all students, and if you would like to write for us at any point in the year, we would love to hear from you! […]
The Manchester Historian If you are a current student at The University of Manchester, or a History alumnus, please get in touch by email with article ideas. We welcome submissions from all students, and if you would like to write for us at any point in the year, we would love to hear from you! […]
Now we are firmly past Pancake Day and into the run up to Easter, many of us have given up something for Lent, the most popular choice being chocolate and all things carby and sweet. Yet the motivation for this discipline is important – not just to get your bikini body ready in time […]
In the 12th century Catalonia became part of the Crown of Aragon and then region became part of Spain in the 15th century through the marriage of the King of Aragon and Queen Isabelle of Castile which united the regions under their respective crowns. Nowadays the region is a powerhouse for the rest of Spain. […]
Despite recent efforts to begin a “decolonisation” of British History, historians such as David Olusoga have illuminated ways in which “mainstream” history neglects the story of Black Britons. Looking at data taken from Advance HE’s Equality Challenge Unit for 2017-2018, the “ethnic homogeneity” of who is both writing and teaching British history is revealed. Olive […]
Have you ever done an internet search for ‘terrorist attacks since 9/11? I suspect not. But if you did, as I have to write this piece, you’d be astounded at the number. Dependent upon how you look at them, there have been 25-30 major terrorist attacks in the last 15 years, attributable to Islamic extremism. […]
It is hard to overstate the significance of the September Campaign, the Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland, in catalysing the eruption of global warfare in 1939-45. Within two days of the invasion, Great Britain and France had declared war on Nazi Germany with the Commonwealth of Nations following suit. The invasion was diplomatically catastrophic for Neville […]
In 1948, the MV Empire Windrush docked in London carrying around five-hundred passengers from the West Indies. They were called to England as the first-wave in Britain’s drive to recruit and enlist a Commonwealth workforce to help rebuild the country post-war by feeding into the labour of state-controlled services such as Transport for London (TfL) […]
The history of relations between the United States and the indigenous nations of America is a long and violent one. In their quest to fulfil America’s ‘manifest destiny’, Euro-Christians were determined to spread their influence from sea to sea of the “New World” The Crisis of the Third Century laid bare to the Roman state […]