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    North West Nineteenth Century Seminar

    4th April 2014 By 0 339

      By Sarah Douglas Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) saw the coming together of academics to share with us their research on Nineteenth-Century history. The seminar, hosted by MMU lecturer of English Literature, Dr Emma Liggins, boasted support from the Institute for Humanities and Social Science Research at MMU, the British Association for Romantic Studies, and…

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    2014 Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture

    4th April 2014 By 0 292

    Tom Hurndall died in 2004 at the hands of an Israeli Defence Force sniper. At the age of 21, he took a break from his journalistic photography course at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) to work as an activist in the Middle East. The coming of the Iraq war pushed him in to Jordan, and a…

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    Film Review: Captain America: The Winter Soldier

    4th April 2014 By 0 219

    By Jack Spillane Directors: Joe and Anthony Russo Cast: Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Frank Grillo, Robert Redford Running Time: 136 mins Plot: Steve Rogers struggles to embrace his role in the modern world and battles a new threat from old history: the Soviet agent known as the Winter…

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    12 Years A Slave: The Historical Reality of a Blockbuster

    3rd April 2014 By 0 443

    Words by Holly Wade 12 Years A Slave won best picture at all of the major award ceremonies. At the Oscars, Steve McQueen dedicated his triumph to “all [of] the people who have endured slavery and the 21 million people who still suffer at the hands of slavery today.” After first seeing the trailer for…

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