The 1st archiving workshop at Central Library is Mon 30th Jan 2-4pm. adding materials to the Archive and learning archiving and research techniques with the team at Archives+ Manchester Historian Manchester Metropolitan Uni History Department Jnl.VictorianCulture HistoryME
New article! Maria Tumiotto (@UoMhistdept) investigates & reasseses the thinking of Subhas Chandra Bose (1897-1945) & his ideology of sāmyavāda in the context of his relationships with Fascist Italy & Nazi Germany. Read in open access here tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
#homefront article of the week: Emotional histories of war have mostly overlooked the tribulations of spouses separated by service. Here Penny Summerfield studies a Sussex couple’s 1,200 #WWII letters (!), with deeply moving results. History Department doi.org/10.1017/jbr.20…
Issue 36.2: Stefan Hanß Stefan Hanß @uomhistdept reviews 'The Fabric of Resistance: Textile Workshops and the Rise of Rebellious Landscapes in Colonial Peru' by Di Hu Dr. Di Hu, archaeologist @jmu University of Alabama Press doi.org/10.1093/jdh/ep…
Today we have visited The University of Manchester where we learnt about higher education before Jake Gandy delivered a lecture on Manchester Black History 📚
Thank you History Department faculty for having us 🩵
Last week I was delighted to speak at the Race and Resistance series at TORCH Oxford and at a #BHM event for History Department! I explored Leeds-based Caribbean female activists within a panel on Black feminisms, and I discussed ethical oral history practice with undergrad students
Thanks to History Department and School of Arts, Languages and Culture for organising a history writing competition and inviting us for a graduation/ celebration event. Congratulations to the winners; Hassan, Dawd and Mirqaat and well done to everyone who took part. It was a brilliant day 😊 Manchester Academy
Brilliant day out at the History Department. Students are working on a Hidden Histories project which will see their work published in the Manchester Historian magazine.
#homefront article of the week: Christian Goeschel shows how ritualistic #Nazi commemorations of January 30—the date of Hitler’s rise to power—bolstered national motivation before and during #WWII . An important read. @drgoeschel Cambridge Core History Department
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📢EVENT: 20 Nov, DRESS, TEXTILES, IDENTITY
Join us at Jesus College (Bawden Room) or on Zoom (5-6:30pm) for our joint session with Cambridge Material Culture Workshop (MCEMW) featuring elli stogiannou (@UniUtrecht), Vendy Hoppe (@UoMhistdept), and Ellie Doran (@CamHistory)
#dresshistorians , #textilehistorians
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Looking forward to our next seminar: Dr Holly Fletcher (@UoMhistdept) talking about 'Making Beds and Stuffing Pillows: Sleep, Materiality and Environment in #EarlyModern England'
30 Jan, 5:30PM (UK time), on zoom and in Wolfson Room NB02 Institute of Historical Research history.ac.uk/events/making-…
Beautiful day in Manchester with History Department students and Dr Edmond Smith looking at historic textiles under the microscope the Whitworth to understand responses to globalisation.
Great time guest lecturing on the Silk Roads module History Department Wonderful to see students really getting into knowledge exchange in the early modern global economy via the materiality of cotton goods!
#WHGS_YAC had a great session with Stefan Hanß from History Department School of Arts, Languages and Culture last week! He taught us about 16th c featherworking and we tried decorating ostrich feathers with gold spangles.We have a new appreciation for the artistry and skill of medieval craftspeople! #archaeology
China and the Silk Roads. Lecturing History Department The University of Manchester with materials as evidence of the global past.
Georg Christ georg christ History Department The University of Manchester discusses the rise of bureaucratization and how Venetians organise an intricate and expanded system of governance.
FULL INSIGHT: ▶️ faculti.net/the-rise-of-th…
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My slightly early birthday present arrived. And it appears I’m not the first former employee of the History Department to have owned it, either…