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Anniversaries: The Guardian newspaper through time and place

This anniversary blog highlights objects from our bicentenary exhibition and from the wider Guardian (formerly Manchester Guardian) Archive…

13 min readApr 27, 2021

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Black and white image featuring three men, one seated holding the Manchester Guardian centenary paper, 1821–1921. Features the names of gneeral printers Lomas, Speight and Dale.

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

Cotton manufacture, enslavement and the University of Manchester: a collection encounter linked to…

This guest blog discusses activity linked to the Founders and Funders exhibition hosted by the John Rylands Library and is co-hosted by the…

7 min readMar 19, 2024

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a man and a woman examining books and historical artefacts on a table

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

Mayor John Lindsay and the New York Teachers Strike of 1968

Written by Olivia Howe

4 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Typed statement from the office of the New York Major, stating that John V Lindsay, the Mayor is pleased that the school strike has ended

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

Paul Robeson in Manchester

Written by Anya Carr

4 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Smiling very tall man wearing a suit and carrying a newspaper. To his right and half cropped from the photograph is a woman smiling and looking upwards towards him

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Dr Janette Martin
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Racial Discrimination in America’s Construction Trade Unions

Written by Elizabeth Owens

4 min readFeb 16, 2024

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Dr Janette Martin
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James Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937): Labour’s First Prime Minister

On the 22 January 2024 it will be exactly a hundred years since the United Kingdom’s first short-lived Labour Government.

7 min readJan 26, 2024

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Orange party political poster which depicts a smiling man in a flat cap smoking a pipe. The text describes improvements to pensions and housing and unemployment benefits

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

Ramsay MacDonald (1866–1937): 1st Labour Prime Minister

The 22 January 2024 marks exactly a hundred years since the United Kingdom’s first short-lived Labour Government. What follows is a brief…

4 min readJan 4, 2024

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pencil sketch portrait of Ramsay MacDonald wearing a tie and formal dress

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

Writing for the public: 10 tips for better prose.

If you want your writing to have impact think about your audience. Writing for the public is very different than writing scholarly essays…

3 min readOct 29, 2023

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Hand holding a pen over a blank note book

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

A Rock ’n’ Roll Revolution: Music and the Counterculture

Guest post by Findlay Stronach, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester

3 min readJun 26, 2023

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Front cover of a zine with a silhouette of a long haired woman

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Dr Janette Martin
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Special Collections

Writing the ‘Wild’ West: Nineteenth Century British Travelogues

Guest post by Tess Welbourne, Second Year Student, BA History and American Studies at the University of Manchester

4 min readJun 26, 2023

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Writing the ‘Wild’ West: Nineteenth Century British Travelogues

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Dr Janette Martin

Dr Janette Martin

Research and Learning Manager (Special Collections) interested in developing online learning resources drawn from the spectacular collections held at the UoM

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