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Staff, Students and Research
Research connected with the Centre ranges from the cultural,
social and political meanings of locality to the historical evolution of the
region in general. Multi-disciplinary research is encouraged, especially that
which links social and political history into economic, cultural and business
aspects of the region, and there is an interest in developing more work of a
comparative nature.
Resources,
societies and history groups
Academic Staff
| Staff have published widely on the history of Manchester and north west England, and the work of other staff within the Department of History and Economic History, notably Catherine Danks, offers comparative regional perspectives on the development of the Russian Federation | |
| Dr Tony Adams | County Borough Elections in England and Wales, 1919-1938; Labour and the City 1900-1914 (comparative analysis of municipal elections from a number of key urban centres: including Manchester, Salford, Stockport, Leicester, Wolverhampton, Bristol, Hull and Derby); Social Class and Party Politics in Edwardian Manchester |
| Pat Ayers | Working class culture in Liverpool/Merseyside; The impact of economic decline and the restructuring of certain localities |
| Professor Michael Bush | The Tudor north-west and early nineteenth-century radicalism in and around Manchester |
| Catherine Danks | Comparative analysis of urban change in Manchester, St. Petersburg and other European cities between the mid twentieth century and the present; development of the Russian Federation |
| Dr Mark Fenemore | |
| Dr Craig Horner | Early motoring and society; eighteenth-century Manchester society |
| Professor (emeritus) Alan Kidd | The development of Manchester and its region since the eighteenth century |
| Professor (emeritus) Neville Kirk | Northern English identities, and comparative British, US and Australian history around the themes of class, race, nation and empire, 1901-2001, with reference to regional matters |
| Dr Bill Longshaw | Freelance exhibition curator and academic researcher |
| Dr Heather Norris Nicholson | Archival film footage made by regional filmmakers and deposited at the North West Film Archive |
| Dr Melanie Tebbutt | Regional identities, particularly north Derbyshire and the Peak District. ; working class neighbourhood and communities |
| Terry Wyke | Local and Regional History of North West England. Current research projects include History of Booth Charities; Cholera in Manchester; Director of the Greater Manchester Regional Centre of the National Recording Project for Public Monuments and Sculptures |
| Research
students associated with the Centre The following postgraduate students are currently undertaking research on regional themes. |
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| Rebecca Andrew | An examination of young working class women’s leisure in three Cumbrian rural communities between the 1930s and the 1950s (Melanie Tebbutt) |
| Michael Cresswell | Ritual and Ceremony in 19thc Municipal Politics (Professor Alan Kidd) |
| David Jones | Small farmers in inter-war Britain (Professor Neville Kirk) |
| Bob Mather | A comparative study of the development of occupational skills in Manchester during the eighteenth century (Professor Alan Kidd) |
| Samantha Wolstencroft | Rise and Fall of the ‘Progressive Alliance’: Liberal & Labour Politics in Manchester, Oldham & Stoke 1906-22 (Dr Tony Adams) |
| Carole O'Reilly | The Sale of Manchester’s Aristocratic estates 1880-1930: Heaton Park, Trafford Park and Wythenshawe Park (Professor Alan Kidd) |
| Francis Salt | Organised Labour in Charities for Blind People in Manchester and Salford in the Nineteenth and twentieth Centuries (Professor Alan Kidd) |
| Matthew Whitfield | Multi-Storey Public Housing in Northern England During the Interwar years (co-funded English Heritage/MMU) (Professor Alan Kidd) |
Students who have recently completed postgraduate study include
| Joanne Smith (PhD) | Women’s Politics in Inter-war Manchester (Dr Tony Adams) |
| John Henry (PhD) | Labour Politics in a Multi-Cultural Population: A Comparative Study of Manchester & Salford 1918-32 (Dr Tony Adams) |
| Richard Spencer (PhD) | Labour & Industrial Relations in the Lancs & Yorks Textile Finishing Industries 1918-39 (Professor Neville Kirk) |