• Entertainment, Review

    Movie Review: Cinderella

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    By Grace Summerson ‘Have courage and be kind…’ Sixty-five years since her animated debut Cinderella is brought to life by Disney once more but this time in the flesh. After saving Walt Disney Studios from bankruptcy in 1950 the success of the original feature as helped place Disney as one of the most loved and…

  • News

    All Hail the Bitch

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    By Letitia Jones Why does no one ever celebrate the Bitch in films? That sexy, and sarcastic female that is set against the main heroine. The Bitch drives the action forward and usually has a few good laughs for us; often, gets the best one-liners, completely overshadowing the main characters of the film. She may…

  • News

    Who Will You Vote For?

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    By Rose Rawstron  An ‘Election 2015 and the Media’ event was held at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) this week. The event, organised by MMU’s Journalism Department, served to inform students and the public about how the media represents politics. Dave Porter, Journalism Lecturer at MMU, said, “This is the first event of its kind the journalism…

  • 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…

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