Neil Harrison delves into the world of Anne Frank and discovers why her story is still relevant today WHEN, IN 1942, OTTO AND EDITH FRANK gave their daughter Anne a diary for her 13th birthday, they could not have realised that they were also giving a gift of immeasurable value to the entire world. Now…

Manchester Metropolitan University Bake Off, Tuesday 12th March, Geoffrey Manton Building Words by Kate Butler It’s that time of year again! With Red Nose Day upon us, avid bakers across the UK have been donning their aprons and beating their batters into an array of mouth-watering delights! The Great Comic Relief Bake Off may be…

Professor David Crystal, Language and the Internet, Monday, 11th March, 6pm, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU Words by Megan Lucie Adams Photo from lidahibu.com Language is something we can all take for granted and it is often something many of us believe we can use, shape and mould as we wish. In a world where Twitter…

The Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research, Wednesday, 27th February, 6pm, Geoffrey Manton Building, MMU Professor Jonathan Culpeper’s lecture, ‘Impoliteness: using language to cause offence,’ succeeded in three regards; it was interesting, informative, and crammed with laugh-out-loud humour. Held on Wednesday, 27thFebruary, in MMU’s Geoffrey Manton building, Lecture Theatre 4 was filled with a whole…

Words by Siobhán O’Toole Dr Michael Kwame Dzeamesi posed this question to his audience this Wednesday afternoon through his informative and thought-provoking seminars and discussions on, ‘How Africans Define Poverty’, and ‘Political culture and Democratic Governance in Africa’. Dr Dzeamesi aimed and succeeded to highlight the realities of poverty in Africa, and the difficulties concerning our…