The National Archives Catalogue. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/default.asp.
University of Manchester
Connections
Connections Sort ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Anna Steele | A collection of 56 letters from William Michael Rossetti
to AS
, written between 1888 and 1911, is held by the University of Manchester
. |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | Yggdrasill, the magazine of Ashburne House
, the women's residence at Victoria University of Manchester
, printed a poem by Alice Jane Taylor (later AU
) about university life which contained the refrain Argument. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 57 |
Textual Production | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
spoke on Women's Suffrage at the Women's Debating Society
of Owen's College, Manchester
. Oakley, Ann et al. “Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Duty and Determination”. Feminist Theorists, edited by Dale Spender, Reprint, Pantheon Books, pp. 184-02. 202n3 |
Textual Production | Alison Uttley | Dr Irvin Kerlan
of the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota
, bought a substantial number Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 219 |
Reception | Alison Uttley | AU
received an Honorary DLitt from Manchester University
, where she had formerly studied physics. Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph. 243-4 |
politics | Dora Marsden | DM
, Mary Gawthorpe
, and Rona Robinson
were arrested in their academic gowns at Manchester University
after protesting against the recent start of force-feeding at Birmingham's Winson Green Prison
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 36 Barash, Carol. “Dora Marsden’s Feminism, the <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘j’>Freewoman</span>, and the Gender Politics of Early Modernism”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. 49 , No. 1, pp. 31-56. 39 |
politics | Mary Gawthorpe | One of her many arrests (this one together with Dora Marsden
and Rona Robinson
) came at Victoria University, Manchester
, on 4 October 1909, when they faced the prospect of prison and force-feeding, though... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | VW
rejected on principle an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from the University of Manchester
. In March 1939 she rejected another honorary doctorate, from the University of Liverpool
. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press. 2: 172 Bishop, Edward. A Virginia Woolf Chronology. Macmillan. 155 |
Occupation | Jeanette Winterson | In spring 2012 her appointment was announced (for the autumn) as professor of creative writing at Manchester University
. Carter, Helen. “Creative writing professorship for Winterson”. The Guardian, p. 15. 15 |
Occupation | John Oliver Hobbes | Hobbes volunteered for a number of causes, giving talks in honour of friends, at universities, and for charitable and political causes. After her return from the USA in 1906, she gave talks at the Imperial Industries Club |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jean Rhys | JR
's father, Dr William Rees (or Rhys) Williams
, was the second and less-favoured son of a Welsh Anglican clergyman. Sources give both spellings of her father's second name, with no explanation for the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Ella Hepworth Dixon | EHD
's eldest surviving brother, Harold Baily Dixon
, later a CBE, attended Oxford and became a chemistry professor at Victoria University, Manchester
. He was the President of the Chemical Society, and earned a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Helen Dunmore | Her mother, born Betty Smith, took university degrees at Manchester
and Oxford
universities. Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 267 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eva Gore-Booth | During her second stay in Italy, EGB
met Esther Roper
, a graduate of Victoria University
(Manchester) and a suffrage campaigner. Lewis, Gifford. Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper: A Biography. Pandora Press. 1, 51 Commire, Anne, and Deborah Klezmer, editors. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. 6: 408 |
Employer | Marie Stopes | MS
taught at the Victoria University of Manchester
(now Manchester University). Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. |
Timeline
Before 20 September 1653: Humphrey Chetham planned the organisation...
Building item
Before 20 September 1653
Humphrey Chetham
planned the organisation which, after his death on this date, opened as the first public library in the modern world: Chetham's Library
in Manchester (sometimes known as Cheetham's
).
1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...
Building item
1824
The Manchester Mechanical Institute
was founded.
1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...
Building item
1824
The Manchester Mechanical Institute
was founded.
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
Building item
1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
Building item
1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...
Building item
1871
Owens College
in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...
Building item
1871
Owens College
in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
1881: Liverpool University College was founded...
Building item
1881
Liverpool University College was founded.
1928: The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device...
Building item
1928
The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device which detects and measures radioactivity, was produced in a form close to that still in use by Hans Geiger
and Walther Müller
at the University of Kiel
in...
21 June 1948: Developed at the University of Manchester,...
Building item
21 June 1948
Developed at the University of Manchester
, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, also known as the Manchester Baby Machine, became the first computer able to store and recall programmes.
July 2010: BPP University College of Professional Studies...
Building item
July 2010
BPP University College of Professional Studies
was awarded the status of a university or degree-granting body: only the second private or for-profit organization of this kind in the UK.
Hotson, Howard. “Short Cuts”. London Review of Books, Vol.
33
, No. 11, p. 19. 19
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