IHR@Manchester

IHR@Manchester

Jul 2, 2019

By Philip Carter On 25 June the Institute headed to the north-west for IHR@Manchester, a day research workshop for early career historians and History librarians. The day was jointly organised with the John Rylands Research Institute and held in the Historic...
Still Going Places: Gender and Medieval Studies

Still Going Places: Gender and Medieval Studies

Mar 22, 2019

By Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter, Editors of the collection ‘Gender in Medieval Spaces, Places and Thresholds’ available open access. As we were leaving the Cathedral after...
The market imperfections of business, shoppers and consumerism

The market imperfections of business, shoppers and consumerism

Jan 28, 2019

By Lawrence Black Much recent work on consumerism, from Frank Trentmann on things, to Bethany Moreton’s brilliant study of Walmart, through to Robert Miller’s anthropological work, has creatively and productively entangled shopping, politics, everyday life and...