100 voices, faces and objects to mark BBC Centenary
BBC History has launched three new online collections looking at the broadcaster’s most iconic objects, people and contributors over the last century.
The new collections...
Young people from refugee backgrounds to create new biographies of Manchester museum’s ancient historical...
Young people from refugee backgrounds will work with University experts and community artists to produce new narratives of ancient artefacts held in museum collections.
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Stonehenge of the North is given to the Nation
Historic England and English Heritage have secured the future of two massive henge monuments and their surrounding landscape, part of a Neolithic complex in...
£7.6m project to transform John Rylands Library gets Green light
Manchester City Council has approved plans to transform The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Research Institute and Library to enhance its contribution to research,...
Manchester to celebrate the visit of the man who galvanised the opposition to the...
Manchester Cathedral and the Challenging Hate Forum are marking Thomas Clarkson Day on Thursday 26 October from 2.30-4pm.
On 28 October 1787, Thomas Clarkson gave...
Shocking truth behind Takabuti’s death revealed
Takabuti, the famous ancient Egyptian mummy on display at the Ulster Museum, suffered a violent death from a knife attack, a team of experts...
Wilfred Owen commemorated by Manchester one hundred years after his death
War poet Wilfred Owen who fought in the First World War as part of the Manchester Regiment is being commemorated this weekend in both...
Manchester COVID-19 history project given £1million
A University of Manchester team of researchers and volunteers who have been documenting NHS voices of COVID-19 since March, are to join forces with...
Letter discovered from Manchester suffragist despairs at men resisting fight for vote
A letter has been unearthed from one of Manchester’s most celebrated suffragists that colourfully lambasts men resisting the campaign for women’s rights.
Historian Michala Hulme...
A long-lost war memorial is unveiled at Newton Heath train maintenance depot.
More than 60 years after the memorial was moved from the carriage works site on Dean Lane, the memorial has been rededicated and unveiled,...