Join experts from MCPHH and beyond on a practical course to develop your academic historical work into formats suitable for wider publics. Led by Professor Catherine Fletcher, this free five-session course features a range of experts from the world of public history. Running online over four Tuesdays from 4-25 June (10-3 each day), with a final in-person event on 2 July, it will introduce you to essential techniques in communicating history to wider audiences. The course will cover a range of different formats: – short-form writing (for magazines and online) – long-form writing (trade books ..read more

On 6 December 2023, the MCPHH, in collaboration with the Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future, hosted a fantastic panel discussion on how we can use sound to access heritage. We welcomed guest speakers: Luke Beesley (Researcher at University of Liverpool, Archive Lead at Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People) David Govier (Sound Archivist at Manchester Archives+) Steve Graby (Access and Inclusion Worker at Disabled People’s Archive, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People) Olivia Hewkin (Museum, Galleries and Heritage Programme Manager at VocalEyes) Mariana ..read more

by Muqaddas Ghafoor In the 8th century a coin was ordered to be minted by the King of Mercia, King Offa. The coin was inscribed with the Shahadah on it which is the Islamic declaration of faith and translates to ‘there is no God but Allah and Muhammed is his messenger’. It also had ‘OFFA REX’ written in the middle of it. The design on this coin was a copy of the dinar coin of Caliph Abbasid Al- Massur. However, the Arabic on this coin had a few inaccuracies and the OFFA REX was written upside down in relation to the Arabic. These inaccuracies show that the person inscribing the coins was not a ..read more

Keynote speakers: Hallie Rubenhold: author of The Five Professor Anindita Ghosh: historian of crime and detective fiction in colonial Calcutta. The British Crime Historians Symposium meets every 2-3 years to discuss and debate original historical research on all aspects of crime, policing, punishment, law, criminal justice and social regulation. Since the first meeting in 2008, the BCHS has become a leading academic forum in this broad and vibrant field of research. The next conference will be held on the 5th and 6th September 2024 at the Friends Meeting House, in Manchester. It will be jointl ..read more

By Aieyan Khan Muslims and Ireland are not two terms we often associate together. However, they are not so alien to each other as we might assume. Ireland, referred to as Irlanda or Hayburniya in the past, has been mentioned by many medieval Muslim travellers and cartographers as early as the 11th century. The most notable of these cartographers is Mohammed Al-Idrisi. Al-Idrisi was an Andalusian-born cartographer born in the year 1100. He was present in the court of Roger, the Norman king of Sicily. In 1154 Al Idrisi completed His Magnum Opus, the ‘Nuzhat al-mushtāq fī ikhtirāq al-āfāq’, trans ..read more

A public discussion with panellists, presented by Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage, in collaboration with Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future.   Join our speakers to help generate ideas that will encourage thoughtful use of sound to support access to heritage: Luke Beesley (Researcher at University of Liverpool, Archive Lead at Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People) David Govier (Sound Archivist at Manchester Archives+) Steve Graby (Access and Inclusion Worker at Disabled People’s Archive, Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People) Olivi ..read more

Geoffrey Manton Building – Lecture Theatre 4 (LT4)Rosamond Street West Manchester M15 6EB In an era where black death has become a viral spectacle, how might we navigate a series of clashing ethical imperatives when writing about violence, slavery, and British history? Christienna Fryar is a writer and independent historian of Britain and the Caribbean. Formerly an academic, she was the founding convenor of the MA Black British History at Goldsmiths, University of London, the first taught masters’ programme of its kind in the UK, and before that she taught Caribbean history, comparative slaver ..read more

10 Oct 2023 17:30 – 19:00, Room GM 337, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Manchester, M15 6EB The King of South Shields is an experimental documentary looking at the day that Muhammad Ali came to Tyneside in 1977 and the effect that this event had on the young Yemeni-British men who attended the Mosque. The film examines the emerging Arab/British identity and briefly introduces the historic community of Yemeni South Shields sailors. Tina Gharavi, founder of Bridge + Tunnel, is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker, academic and equality campaigner born in Iran, educated in the US and Franc ..read more

Please find Volume 2 of the re-released MRHR below. As ever thanks to our authors, Dr Craig Horner and the editorial board for putting the journal together. manchester-region-history-review-front-sectionDownload Alan Kidd Manchester, cotton and slavery, c.1740-1833 Kidd, A. (2023). Manchester, cotton and slavery, c.1740-1833. Manchester Region History Review. https://doi.org/10.57872/XY3A-BJ74 Victoria Garlick ‘More Than Might Have Been Reasonably Expected’: William Henry Broadhead and the early years of the Hulme Hippodrome Garlick, V. (2023). ‘More Than Might Have Been Reasonably Expected ..read more

By Daniyal Awan There are an increasing number of famous Muslim footballers in the Premier League, including names such as Riyadh Mahrez, Mohammed Salah, and N’golo Kante. Why then are British Muslims still notoriously underrepresented in top-flight English football? Well, one answer to that would be the path that must be taken to get there is too much to handle for most British Muslims. This path is one of enduring Islamophobic and racist abuse along with the unconscious bias of scouts and coaches. Despite the multicultural fabric of modern-day Britain, not enough is being done to bring inclu ..read more