We got in touch with some of last year’s Manchester Historian team and found out what post-undergraduate life has brought them… Florence Holmes, co-creator of the Manchester Historian and one of the editors from last year’s team kept on rolling after University has ended. Just nine days after completing her degree she started a twelve Continue Reading
Living in North Korea.
April 2013 saw the London School of Economics under fire as BBC journalists accompanied ten students from the university on a trip to North Korea. The students claimed they had no idea that journalists were accompanying them until they landed in the far Eastern nation, and given the tight regulations in the country as Continue Reading
Gay rights and the end of history
An overview of the history of gay rights in Britain (and in nations across the world) could easily be perceived as evidence for Francis Fukuyama’s theories of history having an end point – that homosexual men and women obtain full rights and acceptance in all societies and therefore their story ends. A closer look however Continue Reading
The Enlightenment and Society
Arguably the most important facet to consider when one is examining the social and cultural developments within the European Enlightenment is the rise of the public sphere. What gave rise to what many historians now regard as the birth of the modern middle class in Europe is debated to be the result of numerous factors. Continue Reading
Making history
Modern day experts look at the past in an attempt to understand the present.