Features | Melanie Fernandes The 18th century in Manchester was a turbulent period which saw numerous riots over food distribution. This article investigates the history of these food riots and the importance they played More » History You Should Know | Melanie Fernandes In 1378, several Popes claimed to be the true successor of […]
Features | Jennifer Birdsall In 1989 the First Liberian Civil War erupted. In 1980, Samuel Doe headed a coup d’état to overthrow the government. The war began in 1989 because Charles Taylor, a former More » University | Jennifer Birdsall Hi everyone, Welcome back! We hope that everyone had a refreshing Christmas break and any […]
Behind The Headlines | Sophie Brownlee The Glorious Revolution of 1688 was the culmination of a century of upheaval after the British Civil War (1642-1651). It saw William III of Orange-Nassau and his wife, Mary, both More » Features | Sophie Brownlee The British Royal family is a melting pot of nationalities, cultures and dynasties. […]
The Romans used powdered mouse brains as toothpaste. Julius Caesar gave us our modern calendar of 12 months. Originally there were only 10 months, running from March to December, but then they added two more. This meant that September (from the Latin for seven) became the 9th month. October (from the Latin for eight) is […]
Former editor of the Manchester Historian. In Culture | Florence Holmes and Juliette Donaldson Want a new archive to track down those elusive ‘primary sources’ your lecturers keep nagging you about? Writing an essay on the history of radical politics? Well, you’re in luck More » Behind The Headlines | Florence Holmes What first interested […]
History You Should Know | Matt Steadman Commonly referred to as “the dress rehearsal” for World War II, the Spanish Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in Spanish history. The result of deep political and social divisions More » History You Should Know | Matt Steadman On 26 December 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev announced the […]
Women in History | Nicole Campbell During the early to mid-20th century, five million African-Americans made the passage from the former slave-holding south to the industrialised cities of the north and west United States. Cruel Jim More »
University | Dan Bunter Having recruited a talented squad, History FC have started the 2015-16 season with great promise and are currently second in Division 2, as well as winning in the first round More » Behind The Headlines, University | Dan Bunter After weeks of advertising and holding trials, History FC has now assembled […]
Editors’ Notes, University | Jamie Taylor Thank you everyone who made it to our annual Staff/Student Pub Quiz! We had a great turnout, filling the entire of 256, and some great competitive spirit among you all. More » Editors’ Notes, University | Jamie Taylor Hello everyone, and welcome to the History Society for the 2015/16 […]
University | Pippa Stannard A glimpse at the tragic, heroic but often forgotten life of one of Britain’s wartime heroes. University | Sophia White We all spend hours in the library, but how much do we know about its namesake? University | Aditya Iyer An examination of the life of Britain’s most controversial historian, A.J.P. […]
Women in History | Katy Roughton Feminism as a movement has evolved dramatically since its popularisation in the mid twentieth century. Today, modern Western feminists use their keyboards as their weapons substituting for the more provocative More » History You Should Know | Katy Roughton The ‘Quakers’, or the Religious Society of Friends, stretch back […]
History Lesson | Fraser Corrywright ‘Oh What an Artist dies in me’- Nero as he died. Emperor Nero is a famously vicious Roman princeps in a dynasty of similarly notorious individuals. The extent to which More » Features | Fraser Corrywright The period of Barbarian Migration which marked the decline and fall of the Roman […]
Editors’ Notes | Charlie Bush and Ata Rahman I’m really happy with how the Historian has progressed this term. The team’s been working incredibly hard at coming up with ways to incorporate a more contemporary angle and I’m More » Editors’ Notes | Ata Rahman and Charlie Bush Welcome to this year’s first issue of […]
History You Should Know | Vivienne Daly The Anglo-Irish Treaty, officially the ‘Articles of Agreement for a Treaty Between Great Britain and Ireland’, signed on the 6th December 1921, concluded the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) following the Sinn More » History You Should Know | Nina Khan Human trafficking is the world’s third largest underground network, […]