Issue 12 – Page 5 – Manchester Historian

Kate Curtis summarises 1943 in ten photos from around the globe.

Francois Hollande recently became embroiled in scandal after an alleged affair with a French actress uncovered by the French press. Tom Oliver investigates the cases in history when sex and politics have become enmeshed.

Jack Crutcher reviews the Oscar-nominated, Golden Globe winning film, 12 Years A Slave. He looks why slavery has become a popular focal point of challenging cinema in the last couple of years.

Welcome back to a new (actual) year of The Manchester Historian. With the exam period came ample opportunities for witnessing terrible daytime TV, which might explain where our theme for this month’s historian came from – we love to hate them but adverts are the bread and butter of our media today and we can’t Continue Reading