Category: Behind The Headlines

Spark or Speak? – Media Responses to the California Wildfires, By Agnes Parshall

Posted On By The Manchester Historian

In 2025, Los Angeles, the ‘City of Angels’ in California fell victim to one of the worst wildfires on record. The four major fires: Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, and Auto, burned more than 12,000 homes, businesses, schools, and other structures. These devastations received unprecedented coverage, revealing the media’s reluctance to acknowledge climate change, and their bias Continue Reading

Category: Behind The Headlines

Capitalism, Consumerism, and the Nature-Society Divide, By Grace Oliver

Posted On By The Manchester Historian

The early origins of capitalism began in parts of Europe such as Italy and Germany coinciding with the fall of the feudal system. Capitalism is an economic system based on wage labour, in which the means of production is controlled by private or corporate interests for the purpose of profit, with prices determined largely by Continue Reading