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Who Will You Vote For?

29th April 2015 By aAh! 0 152

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…
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MMU’s Jean Sprackland Helps Crown Poetry By Heart Champion

28th April 2015 By aAh! 0 290

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…
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The Future of History

28th April 2015 By aAh! 0 727

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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Arachnophobia

28th April 2015 By aAh! 0 230

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

24th April 2015 By aAh! 0 309

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…

Who Will You Vote For?

MMU’s Jean Sprackland Helps Crown Poetry By Heart Champion

The Future of History

Arachnophobia

The Sophie Lancaster Foundation comes to Manchester Met

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