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Professor Natan Meir, Sam Johnson Memorial Lecture 2021: Drafting the Undesirables: Jewish Conscription to the Imperial Russian Military under Nicholas I – 15 December 2021
Disability History Month 2021
Dr Jaipreet Virdi, Disability History Month: Hearing Happiness – Deafness Cures in History – 3 November 2021
Dr Kathryn Hurlock, Disability History Month: Miraculous Cures and Pilgrimage in Manchester – 10 November 2021
Dr Emma Jayne Graham, Disability History Month: Disability in Ancient Rome – 17 November 2021
Dr Simon Jarrett, Disability History Month: Intellectual Disability in England, 1750-1900 – 24 November 2021
Past Events
Thomas Ferriar – Mancunian South American Liberator: a bi-centennial commemoration – 17 July 2021
Dr Michael Nevell, Digging up Manchester: Industrial Archaeology & Heritage in the Shock City – 2 June 2021
Corinne Fowler, Colonial Countryside, Heritage Research and the Culture War – 5 May 2021
Robert Mills’ LGBT History Month lecture: ‘Recognising Wilgefortis’ – 24 February 2021
Mongol and Seljuk Conversion to Islam and the Steppe Ideology – 11 February 2021
‘Half-victims’? Jewish ‘Mischlinge’ in the Third Reich, 1933-1945 – Dr Jean Marc Dreyfus, 3 December 2020
Covid-19 in Historical Perpsective: an ‘in conversation’ series
Classical Association Lectures
‘Island Exile in Colonial Australia’ – Dr Katy Roscoe, 9 December 2020
As Seen on Screen: Period dramas, ‘accuracy’ and the historical adviser – Dr Hannah Grieg Public Lecture, 11 November 2020, 5.30pm
75th Anniversary Pan African Congress Talk by Dr Ray Costello, 15th October 2020, 5.30pm
MCPHH and RSHC host Public History in Lockdown Zoom Workshop
Leibniz University of Hannover Blog
The Stone Age for School Kids: the Bryn Celli Ddu Minecraft Experience
Manchester in 100 Shops
Can Digging Make You Happy?
Being Young on the Home Front: Young People in North West England during World War One
The Women’s Peace Crusade
House and home: physical and emotional comfort in the country house, England and Sweden c.1680-1820
Passions of Youth: The Leisure Lives of Working-Class Young Men in Manchester
Granadaland: Histories and Memories of Granada TV in the North West of England, 1954-1990
Creating Our Future Histories: AHRC Skills Training Programme
Stonewall 50 Years On: Gay Liberation and Lesbian Feminism in its European Context
The Nineteenth-Century Motorist in the North West
‘Therapy and well-being through heritage fieldwork?’
Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South
Manchester Region History Review
Public History Blog
Perceptions of Madness
Eating Together in the 16th and 17th Centuries: Early Modern Commensality
Discovering William Edward Armytage Axon (1846-1913), ‘One of the Busiest Men in Manchester’ (Samuel Laycock, Dialect Poet)
Street Museums and Museum Streets: Researching museum history
FutureLearn: Our role, access to knowledge and public history
Freethinkers, Chartists and Radicals; political continuity over three generations of nineteenth-century Norvicians
The People’s River: adapting community projects and uncovering hidden histories during lockdown
British popular responses to the First World War – a different perspective
Olive Claydon: Pioneer Doctor for Women in Manchester
‘A Genteel Residence’: Merchants’ Homes in Early-Nineteenth Century Manchester
Looking for Mrs Skinner and finding Mrs Hayes: A lockdown detective story
Liverpudlian Muslims in Victorian Britain: A Forgotten Past
Manchester Histories Digifest 2020: Disabled People’s Rights and Histories – An Update
Fifth Pan-African Congress 75th Anniversary Celebrations, 15-18th October 2020
Forgotten Stories: Poorly Manchester and Salford Children sent to Switzerland for ‘Health Holidays’ in the 1940s
The Boys and the Lake District Holocaust Project
Wellbeing and heritage research in times of closure
New Online: Thomas Barritt of Manchester
New Exhibition: Russia’s Second Patriotic War in posters, photographs and postcards.
Football, Plans and Public History: Art of Ayresome and taking the archives to the wider world
New Generation Thinkers in conversation
The Stone Age for School Kids: The Bryn Celli Ddu Minecraft Experience
Public Archaeology in Lockdown
Life Goes On – the North West Film Archive’s Response to the COVID19 Lockdown – collection development, and access.
The Earliest History of the World
Manchester shops: reflecting on the present and the past
Manchester Histories Festival goes Digi.
Celebrating VE Day in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic
Translating Family Stories: Europe’s Ducal Families in Focus
Reworking Research in the Lockdown
Luck in the Lockdown! Researching early women doctors in Manchester: Blog 1. Dr. Elsie Brown Hey b 1883. d. c. 1978
Women in Manchester’s 1960s beat scene
Leibniz University of Hannover Blog
Women’s History Month
Munich Air Disaster: Dennis Viollet
Women and the Vote: The Representation of the People Act 1918
The Bayeux Tapestry
MCPHH Podcast
Episode 8 – Disability History and the Disabled Peoples’ Archive: Dr Rosamund Oates, Lorna Young, and Siobhan O’Connor
Episode 7 – The Legendary 1945 Manchester Pan African Congress: Professor Ola Uduku, Dr Kai Syng Tan, and Dr Marie Molloy
Episode 6 – William Axon, “A Manchester Man”: Conversation with Lucy Evans
Episode 5 – Dr Ali Ronan discusses her work on the women of Manchester
Episode 4 – The Richard Roberts Archive: Stockport’s Best Kept Secret
Episode 3 – ‘Histories, Stories, Voices’ in Manchester’s Public Spaces with Karen Shannon and Councillor Luthfur Rahman
Episode 2 – Recovering 10cc’s lost Strawberry Studios record, how to bake a tape with Peter Wadsworth
Episode 1 – 19th Century Motoring with Dr Craig Horner
Books, research and media
Heritage Open Days: The Richard Roberts Archive
Dr Peter Lindfield, The British Muslim Heritage Centre, ‘ancient’-style furniture and a royal bed!
Dr Jason Roche, The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany: Warfare and Diplomacy in Byzantium, Anatolia and Outremer, 1146-1148
Dr Craig Horner Book Release – The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain
Professor Catherine Fletcher, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance – Sunday Times history books of 2020
Richard Lysons, Were You There? Popular Music at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall – 1951-1996: Book Review
Projects
Heritage and Well-being Evaluation
Heritage and Well-being: Creating Healthier Societies Through Heritage
Virtual Heritage and Wellbeing
Heritage and Wellbeing Guidelines
Manchester – Leningrad/St Petersburg City Partnership: An Exhibition
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