• Interview, News

    MMU’s Jean Sprackland Helps Crown Poetry By Heart Champion

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    By Jacqueline Grima In March, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Reader in Poetry and Director of the Manchester Writing School, Jean Sprackland, travelled to Homerton College, Cambridge to help find the winner of the 2015 Poetry By Heart competition.  This year, over 300 schools from all over the UK took part in the various rounds of the…

  • Interview, Lifestyle, News

    The Future of History

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    By Jacqueline Grima In the late 1960s a group of students from Ruskin College in Oxford formed the History Workshop movement. Led by historian and one-time member of the Communist Party, Raphael Samuel, their aim was to create a wider understanding of history by studying the everyday lives of ordinary people.  In other words, to…

  • Creative

    Arachnophobia

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    By Ray Higgs When I first found my mother lying still, eyes closed and skin paler than porcelain I thought she had been a vampire. I was 10 when I saw those black pinprick dots on her neck, pumping fire and poison through her system, glaring out at me from her alabaster corpse. That’s what…

  • Interview, Lifestyle, Manchester, News

    The Sophie Lancaster Foundation comes to Manchester Met

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    By Jacqueline Grima In August 2007, 20-year-old Sophie Lancaster, a bright, book-loving student and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, were attacked by a gang of teenage youths in a park in Bacup, Lancashire. The primary motive for the attack appeared to be that Sophie and Rob enjoyed dressing alternatively, both dying their hair, wearing piercings and…

  • Lifestyle

    The North West Long Nineteenth-Century Spring Seminar

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    By Caroline Baylis-Green The Spring North West Long Nineteenth-Century seminar took place at Manchester Metropolitan University earler this month. The event offers an opportunity for postgraduate students, early career researchers and established academics to promote their latest work to a supportive and engaged public audience.  The seminar sessions attract speakers from across the UK, as…

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