Image of Manchester Metropolitan University in the early 20th century

History Research Centre projects

A selection of our research, examining aspects of history from the ancient world to the modern era.

Projects

  • The remains of the Buddhist temples at the ancient city of Bagan

    Ancient Myanmar

    Investigating ancient monuments in and around Bagan, Myanmar, following the city's listing as a World Heritage Site.

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  • Women marching in uniform in England during the First World War

    Being young on the Home Front

    Young people in North West England during World War One.

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  • The exterior of Canons Ashby House, a Grade I listed Elizabethan manor house

    Comfort and the country house

    Examining how the idea and importance of comfort in its many forms can be seen to develop in aristocratic homes during the eighteenth century.

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  • Close up ink handwriting on paper

    Communities of Print network

    Discussing how books were used in early modern Europe.

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  • A French stamp showing a graphic designer in a wheelchair working at a draughting board commemorating the 1981 International Year of the Disabled

    Cultures of Disability research cluster

    A multidisciplinary network of researchers studying disability and disabled people, past and present.

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  • A statue of the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    Leibniz’s Examination of the Christian Religion

    A new, critical translation of Examen religionis Christianae by German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

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  • Bustling Petticoat Lane in London early in the 20th century

    Mapping the Jewish history of London and Manchester

    Two new websites are helping to preserve and open up the history of Jewish communities in the two cities.

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  • An English country house

    Manchester Country House Network

    An academic network for postgraduate students and scholars interested in country houses.

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  • A stained glass window showing Christian crusaders in battle

    Northern Network for the study of the Crusades

    A research network of students and leading experts in the Crusades and related subjects.

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  • Three children on a train returning home from a Second World War trip

    Passions of Youth

    A series of projects exploring the histories and heritage of childhood and youth in Manchester and Salford from the 1940s to the 2000s.

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  • Aida Fernández Prieto

    Poverty, vulnerability and family in Ancient Greece

    Supported by the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship.

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  • Researchers, officials and volunteers excavating around the Bryn Celli Ddu passage tomb, Anglesey

    Project TIME

    Exploring the history of major social change in third and fourth millennia Ireland and Britain.

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  • Re-enactors dressed as World War II Russian Soviet Red Army soldiers marching through a forest

    The Returning Soldier Network

    An academic network for researchers with an interest in military veterans and their experiences of returning home from service.

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  • A replica of a small musical bell from Ancient Egypt

    Roman and Late Antique Artefacts from Egypt

    Discovering the social and cultural lives of people in the ancient Roman world, through everyday objects.

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  • Slaveholding American woman Mary Susan Ker

    Single, White Slaveholding Women

    Finding fresh insights into the lives of privileged white women in the nineteenth century American south by examining the impact of being single.

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