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2024
15
October
2024
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12:17
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A new digital platform has been launched which offers unprecedented access to the thoughts, discoveries and personal reflections of pioneering British chemist Sir Humphry Davy, the man best remembered for the invention of the miner鈥檚 safety lamp …
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18
September
2024
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14:47
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To mark World Alzheimer鈥檚 Day, Saturday 21 September, Professor Douglas Field is announcing the release of a new book, Walking in the dark: James Baldwin, my father and me, a moving literary exploration of the disease.
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2022
24
August
2022
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15:38
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91直播 Literature Festival, the Centre for New Writing and Creative 91直播 are partnering again for this October鈥檚 exciting Literature Live event, bringing some of the most extraordinary contemporary writers to 91直播 to discuss their …
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2019
30
August
2019
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12:33
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Ideas were flying at a three-day event to mark the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre in 91直播, which brought thought-leaders from the arts together to discuss the theme ‘Romanticism now and then’.
On 31 July - 2 …
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16
August
2019
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13:16
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On 2 August 2019 at the Friends’ Meeting House, adjacent to St. Peter’s Square, 91直播, three renowned scholars of the early 19th century gathered to offer new perspectives on the 1819 Peterloo massacre, a peaceful protest for …
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28
May
2019
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10:40
Europe/London
An innovative new podcast created by second year English Literature students from the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures transports the culture and economy of Victorian 91直播 to the airwaves.
Downloadable …
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24
May
2019
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15:56
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An exciting new partnership between an English Literature and Creative Writing Lecturer at the University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and the Cheshire Wildlife Trust serves to give conservation wings with …
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2018
12
September
2018
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13:29
Europe/London
Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old.
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04
September
2018
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23:00
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Scafell Pike, England’s highest mountain is a popular place to climb, both as part of the Three Peaks Challenge and for walkers in search of the sublime Lake District scenery. But it wasn’t always this way.
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15
June
2018
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16:01
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The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies has officially launched at The University of Manchester.
Members of the Centre met at the John Rylands Library to inaugurate CMEMS on 24 May 2018.
The event consisted of an open …
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11
June
2018
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10:12
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Professor of New Writing, Jeanette Winterson has been made a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours, announced over the weekend.
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07
June
2018
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14:01
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Kamila Shamsie, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing, has won the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction.
Home Fire, which is Shamsie’s seventh novel, reworks Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone to tell the story of a …
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2017
05
October
2017
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08:00
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John Mcauliffe, University of ManchesterAn annual cycle of intrigue and speculation, followed by the denouement – at which point the whole knotty process come to a head. Not the sagas of the political party conference season, but the …
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2016
20
January
2016
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17:12
Europe/London
Ghosts, witches, sorcerers and demons: our fascination with the supernatural stretches back centuries. ‘Magic, Witches & Devils in the Early Modern World’ invites you to explore how supernatural forces shaped the lives of everyone …
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2015
27
February
2015
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10:05
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing is proud to announce the launch of a groundbreaking new postgraduate course, designed to equip emerging screenwriting talent with the practical skills required to succeed in the UK film and …
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13
February
2015
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07:00
Europe/London
A new chaotic poem about love, created by Twitter followers, is on display from today (Friday 13 February) at The John Rylands Library in central 91直播.
This Is (Not) A Love Poem is the result of a Twitter-led project to create a new chaotic …
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29
January
2015
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09:21
Europe/London
An exhibition featuring the first publisher to be credited with making literature affordable to the masses is being launched today (29 January) at The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library.
To coincide with the 500th anniversary …
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22
January
2015
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23:00
Europe/London
In the wake of the Paris terror attacks and rising anti-Semitism, a series of lectures at The University of Manchester will examine lessons from the Second World War to coincide with Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January).
Seventy years on from the …
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2014
20
November
2014
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15:08
Europe/London
The University of Manchester Library received the Safeguarding the Digital Legacy award at the international Digital Preservation Awards in London this week.
The award was presented for the Carcanet Press Email Preservation Project, an …
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23
October
2014
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01:00
Europe/London
Caroline Chisholm, a PhD student at the University’s Centre for New Writing has won the inaugural Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award for a First Novel in this year’s Bridport Prize with her story Swimming Pool Hill.
Caroline wins a cash …
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2013
05
November
2013
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00:00
Europe/London
A University of Manchester lecturer has discovered that the famous first line of English language’s oldest epic poem has been misinterpreted, ever since it was popularised almost 200 years ago.
Dr George Walkden, who is a historical …
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16
September
2013
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01:00
Europe/London
University of Manchester scientist Professor Brian Cox returns to television screens in a new BBC2 series called Science Britannica starting on Wednesday 18 September.
Rock-star turned scientist Professor Cox, part of the Faculty of Engineering …
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26
July
2013
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01:00
Europe/London
Two of literature’s most famous detectives had a major influence on the development of the modern crime scene investigation, according to a historian from The University of Manchester.
Dr Ian Burney’s research into the history of …
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09
July
2013
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01:00
Europe/London
Academics at The University of Manchester and Bristol are marking the 700th birthday of one of the medieval world’s greatest writers, credited with establishing the European storytelling traditions we know today.
Italian Giovanni Boccaccio, …
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27
February
2013
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00:00
Europe/London
A 165-year-old envelope addressed to one of the Victorian era’s greatest writers has been reunited with its letter, unexpectedly discovered by an American academic.
The items, dated 8 November 1848 and penned by another influential …
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2012
28
February
2012
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00:00
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A new mural poem by renowned writer Lemn Sissay – celebrating the virtues of peace and quiet – has been unveiled at The University of Manchester.
‘Let There Be Peace’ (91直播 2012) is part of the award-winning …
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2011
05
December
2011
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00:00
Europe/London
An exquisite handwritten edition of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, kept at The John Rylands Library, is now available on the iBookstore.
The iBookstore is included in the free iBooks app for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch and at …
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04
March
2011
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00:00
Europe/London
A 350-year-old notebook which describes the execution of innocent women for consorting with the Devil, has been published online by The University of Manchester’s John Rylands Library.
Puritan writer Nehemiah Wallington wrote passages on …
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2009
15
December
2009
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00:00
Europe/London
Popular online arts journal the 91直播 Review will today broadcast last week’s controversial debate between Martin Amis and Clive James on the subject of aging.
Renowned novelist Amis, who is a Professor of Creative Writing at The …
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04
December
2009
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00:00
Europe/London
Guests at Café at the Rylands, located within the historic and beautiful John Rylands Library, have been treated to an exclusive tasting session of Richard II’s recipes from ‘The Forme of Cury’, one of the oldest known …
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