Who’s Who. Adam and Charles Black.
University of Manchester
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 267 |
| 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 |
| Education | Mary Gawthorpe | Going to college would have been the natural sequel to doing well as a pupil-teacher. Several people tried to make it possible for MG
to follow this route, and when she wrote her memoirs sixty... |
| 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... |
| Education | Pam Gems | Pam Price (later PG)
attended Manchester University
, where she received an honours BA in psychology. Burkman, Katherine H. “The Plays of Pam Gems: Personal/Political/Personal”. British and Irish Drama since 1960, edited by James Acheson, Macmillan; St Martin’s Press, pp. 190-01. 191 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Education | Sarah Kane | At school, SK
directed plays by Shakespeare
, as well as Joan Littlewood
's musical Oh, What a Lovely War. She took a BA degree in drama at Bristol University
(first class honours), and... |
| Education | Dora Marsden | DM
studied for her BA at Owen's College, Manchester University
. Garner, Les. A Brave and Beautiful Spirit: Dora Marsden, 1882-1960. Avebury. 14, 21 |
| 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 |
| Education | Christabel Pankhurst | CP
took first-class honours in her degree in law from Manchester University
, after cramming for her final exams. Castle, Barbara. Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst. Penguin. 44 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Education | Christabel Pankhurst | In 1904, with urging from her recently-made friend Esther Roper
, CP
considered studying law at Lincoln's Inn, as her father had done before her. Her application was dismissed on the grounds that she would... |
| 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... |
| Education | Gillian Slovo | GS
attended Manchester University
, where she took her BA in 1974. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Timeline
Before 20 September 1653: Humphrey Chetham planned the organisation...
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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 ...
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1824
The Manchester Mechanical Institute
was founded.
1824: The Manchester Mechanical Institute was ...
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1824
The Manchester Mechanical Institute
was founded.
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
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1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
1851: Owens College opened in Manchester; in 1871...
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1851
Owens College
opened in Manchester; in 1871 it began to admit women.
1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...
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1871
Owens College
in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
1871: Owens College in Manchester became the first...
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1871
Owens College
in Manchester became the first university institution in England to admit women.
1881: Liverpool University College was founded...
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1881
Liverpool University College was founded.
1928: The Geiger or Geiger-Müller counter, a device...
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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,...
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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...
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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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