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Apr 27, 2021

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…

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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May 9, 2025

Death by Hunger: Malcolm Muggeridge and the Ukrainian Famine 1932–1933 — Part 2

Rose Burke, MA student on the Library and Archive Studies course explains more about her cataloguing of the Malcolm Muggeridge’s reports…

two women in front of a laptop, one has a pencil

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May 8, 2025

Death by Hunger: Malcolm Muggeridge and the Ukrainian Famine 1932–1933 — Part 1

Rose Burke, MA student on the Library and Archive Studies course at the University of Manchester, tells us more about her detailed…

Front page of promotional leaflet for the ‘Moscow Daily News’ reading ‘Facts about the USSR’.

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May 31, 2024

Zines and Little Magazines: the art of DIY publishing

Guest post by Bruce Wilkinson that brings the history of the book into the twentieth century with a fascinating look at the zines, little…

Hand written title ‘Heywire’. Black and white save for a cut out of a man wearing a yellow coat and peaked cap. Image of a building with clock tower. All images have been cut out, pasted on and then photocopied. price 30 p

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Mar 19, 2024

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…

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

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Feb 16, 2024

Mayor John Lindsay and the New York Teachers Strike of 1968

Written by Olivia Howe

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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Feb 16, 2024

Paul Robeson in Manchester

Written by Anya Carr

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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Feb 16, 2024

Racial Discrimination in America’s Construction Trade Unions

Written by Elizabeth Owens

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Jan 26, 2024

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.

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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Jan 4, 2024

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…

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

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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