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    I Just Want To Spend It On Shoes! A Student Finance Odyssey

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    By Frankie Richardson I am utterly exhausted. I’ve just realised I spent the last ten minutes staring at a pink plastic bowl which, until very recently, contained Barbecue Beef Super Noodles. I need to produce 750 words tonight but all I want to do is go to bed, where I’ll toss and turn and fret…

  • Manchester, News

    Fang Café

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    By Dan J Broadley The Humanities in Public’s Gothic Manchester Festival 2014 drew to a close as the city bar, Fab Café, was re-branded for the evening as ‘The Fang Café’.  Festival organisers hosted a vampire themed pub quiz, which you don’t see every day, so all the Gothic enthusiasts I met there were pretty…

  • Lifestyle, News

    Gothic Spaces Gothic Places

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    By Dan J Broadley The Humanities in Public Festival’s Gothic takeover of Manchester saw the International Anthony Burgess Foundation host the ‘Gothic Spaces/Gothic Places’ conference. Not being well-versed in Gothic themes, I was worried I’d have no idea what anyone was talking about. However, I was pleasantly surprised, as the speakers on all four panels…

  • Interview, Manchester, News

    The Shock Horror Doctrine: Twisted Tales of Austerity at Gothic Manchester 2014

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    By Neil Harrison The fightback against government austerity measures took a turn for the macabre at this year’s Gothic Manchester Festival. Contributors to a new anthology of austerity themed horror stories, Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, including co-editor, Tom Johnstone, gathered to read excerpts from the book and discuss its wider…

  • Entertainment, News

    ‘What is This Thing Called Steampunk?’

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    We continue our coverage of the Gothic Manchester Festival with an exploration of Steampunk… By Lucy Simpson Photographs c/o Ade Hunter/MMU Calling all lovers of creativity, nostalgia, and brass-goggles! Steampunk is for you. So, ‘What is this thing called Steampunk?’, “We will certainly be answering this question in full”, Helen Malarky, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Humanities-in-Public…

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