Free Movie Screening at Manchester Met

You are warmly invited to a free screening of the movie ‘Suffragette’ and Q&A with Dr Helen Pankhurst (great-granddaughter of noted Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst) and Professor Julia Rouse (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Did you know that the Suffrage movement that won women’s right to vote nearly 100 years ago started in Manchester and that Sylvia Pankhurst – daughter of Emmeline and the most imprisoned Suffragette – studied at Manchester Met?

The recently launched Sylvia Pankhurst Gender Research Centre honours our heritage in the struggle for gender equality and looks to create an evidence base to spur further action. One of our Visiting Professors is Dr Helen Pankhurst and at this event you have a chance to watch the 2015 film ‘Suffragette’ with us and to participate in a Q&A session with Dr Pankhurst and Professor Julia Rouse (Co-head of ‘The Sylvia’).

We will talk informally about the movie, how far we’ve come since the Suffrage campaign and the challenges that remain. We are really keen to hear views from our staff, students and friends, and you can learn more about our new centre and how to get involved.

Thursday 29 September 2016

4.45pm-7.30pm

No 70, Oxford Road

The film will start at 5pm

For more information and to book tickets:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-of-suffragette-with-dr-helen-pankhurst-professor-julia-rouse-tickets-27735386287

 

Change to April lecture

English: Miniature of Conrad III of Germany from Chronica Regia Coloniensis (Cologne Kings’ Chronicle; Cologne; ca. 1240). Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. 467, fol. 64v Deutsch: König Konrad III. Miniatur aus der Chronica Regia Coloniensis (Kölner Königschronik; Köln; um 1240). Brüssel, Bibliothèque Royale, Ms. 467, fol. 64v (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On Monday 8 April 2013, in a change to our advertised lecture, Dr Jason Roche of Manchester Metropolitan Univeristy will speak on ‘Constantinople, the Queen of Cities: the Views of Western Travellers’.  The lecture takes place at 7.30pm in Bolton Parish Hall.  There is a charge of £3 for visitors to the branch and once again, we will be holding our monthly ‘bring and buy history’ book sale.

There were many different views of Constantinople in the middle ages, and just as many explanations offered by contemporaries and modern historians alike for the multifarious ways in which contemporaries perceived the “Queen of Cities”. The lecture will restrict itself to an analysis of a representative selection of eyewitness accounts, that can be loosely designated as “Western”, and which throw light on how the city looked and was perceived by a handful of travellers during two particular centuries. As we will be seen, the prevailing mood of admiration for Constantinople’s magnificence palpable in the texts of a long twelfth century gives way during the fifteenth century to one of sombre reflection; reflection on the late medieval decline of the Byzantine empire and her capital.

Dr Roche completed his PhD in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews in 2008, and since then has held full time lecturing posts in Ireland, Turkey, and England. He is now a permanent lecturer in Medieval history at the Manchester Metropolitan University. His research and teaching interests focus on the expansion of Latin Christendom and Byzantium’s relations with the Latin world. He has already published widely in the aforementioned fields; has co-edited a volume of articles on the Second Crusade that will be published at this end of this summer; and is currently working on a monograph entitled The Crusade of King Conrad III of Germany: Warfare and Diplomacy in the Byzantine Empire, Anatolia and Outrémer, 1145-1149.