Guest post by Findlay Stronach, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester One could be forgiven for thinking that the music of the late 1960s and early 1970s was a minor influence on America’s Counterculture, given the absence of scholarship on this subject. Yet…

Guest post by Tess Welbourne, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the United States dominated British print media. Among the cultural works that rose dramatically in popularity in the last third of Queen Victoria’s reign…

Guest post by Harry Wheatley, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester Manchester, despite being a key part of the nineteenth-century’s cotton industry, is today a city celebrated for its dedication to the anti-slavery movement and transatlantic abolition. When thinking of Manchester’s connection to…

Guest post by Alexandra Hill, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester Goldwin Smith (1823–1910), Oxford Regius Professor, historian, and journalist was a prominent Englishman and Liberal, who took great interest in the US Civil War. The outbreak of the conflict in April 1861…

The content for this post was created by Ceri James, Exhibition and Public Engagement with Research Assistant at the John Rylands Library. She researched Sam Fitton to support a series of public printing press demonstrations developed to support an exhibition by Professor Mike Sanders called Workers Playtime: culture and community…

On Friday 14 October 2022 I visited Geneva to collect a tea cosy belonging to a Huddersfield housewife. How did this homely object end up starring in an international museum? Elizabeth Wilson (1909–2000) was a humanitarian, housewife and peace campaigner from Huddersfield, Yorkshire. In 2022 she was celebrated by The…

Student blog by Madelaine McDonald As part of the University’s History and American Studies degree, second year students are trained to make use of the rich archival collections held around the city relating to the history of the United States. Students work with collections held at John Rylands Research Institute…

By Mae Connolly As part of the University’s History and American Studies degree, second year students are trained to make use of the rich archival collections held around the city relating to the history of the United States. Students work with collections held at John Rylands Research Institute and Library…

Blog post by Ian Graham, Reader Services The University of Manchester Library is home to the archive of the Manchester Guardian and within this vast collection there is a chunky folder of letters and telegrams sent to the Editor of the Guardian, and carbon copies of the corresponding replies. They…