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  • Events
    • Thomas Ferriar – Mancunian South American Liberator: a bi-centennial commemoration – 17 July 2021
  • Past Events
    • 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
    • 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 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
    • 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
    • Richard Lysons, Were You There? Popular Music at Manchester’s Free Trade Hall – 1951-1996: Book Review
    • Professor Catherine Fletcher, The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance – Sunday Times history books of 2020
  • 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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The MCPHH is delighted to deliver illustrated talks to a general audience on subjects such as:

Early Motoring and Cycling

Manchester History

  • The American connection
  • Eighteenth-century society and politics
  • Crime
  • Death and the disposal of the dead
  • Living in Victorian Manchester

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The Friends of the MCPHH brings together individuals and organisations keen to share and develop their knowledge of the history of Manchester and its region. Originally launched in 2003 as the Friends of the MCPH, we complement the aims and activities of the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage. With our regular presentations and talks, guided walks and visits, we offer a friendly and stimulating focus for people of all backgrounds who share a passion for research into their localities and region. The Friends’ regular informal meetings are held at the University’s campus on Oxford Road, Manchester, and we look forward to providing you with a warm welcome. Click on the Friends page for more info
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