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Great Talks
Gary James: The Development of Football in Manchester - 10:30"Manchester - A Football History" is the most recent of Gary's 11 books. Since the 1980s, he has been researching and writing on football in this region. He also set up the award-winning museum and tour at Manchester City Stadium. Gary will be talking about the development of Manchester football from the banning of the sport in 1608 through to the first major national success in 1904 (City lifting the FA Cup) - and on to the growth of the game in the 1930s. Max Jones: Manchester Heroes: From John Bright to Ricky Hatton - 10:30Max Jones' book, The Last Great Quest, examined why the death of Scott of the Antarctic caused a sensation on the eve of the Great War. His new edition of Scott's last Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition was published in the Oxford World's Classics Series in 2006. His latest project examines changing attitudes to national heroes over the last two centuries and the rise of celebrity culture. Max is "Teacher of the Year" (2008) at Manchester University His book on Captain Scott was described as mesmerising. So too will be his lecture on heroes in (warmer and wetter) Manchester. Derek Jackson: Engineering Science at Manchester - An Outcome of the Industrial Revolution - 10:30Derek Jackson is a leading international authority on fluid engineering, who held the chair of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of Manchester from 1987 until 2001. He is especially knowledgeable about the pioneering engineering science created by Osborn Reynolds in late Victorian Manchester. For the Festival he will survey some of the main engineering developments, relating them to the history of the city. No technical background is required. This is your chance to hear engineering made accessible through its history. Dave Haslam: From Engels to Elbow: The History of Manchester Being Heard - 11:30Dave Haslam is a writer, lecturer, broadcaster and DJ who DJ'd at the Haçienda club in Manchester through the late 1980s and has since played worldwide. His journalism has appeared in NME, The Times, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, 'The New Statesman and elsewhere, and he's written three books, including 'Manchester England'; a groundbreaking biography of Manchester, with an emphasis on the story of the city's popular culture. Dave will explain the links between some of the great political, social, and musical ideas that Manchester has given birth to. He will discuss the huge cultural significance of Manchester's music scene (from the Twisted Wheel to the Haçienda, from the Smiths to the Ting Tings, and beyond). Andrew Davies: The Gangs of Manchester: The Story of the Scuttlers - 11:30Andrew Davies is a senior lecturer in the School of History at the University of Liverpool. His first book was a study of leisure and everyday life in Manchester and Salford during the early twentieth century (Leisure, Gender and Poverty, 1992). His new book, The Gangs of Manchester, was published by Milo Books in 2008. He is currently working with the North Manchester-based MaD Theatre Company on an original stage play. Angels with Manky Faces will be performed at the Library Theatre, Manchester, 19-22 August 2009. For further details see http://gangsofmanchester.com If you ever thought teenage violence was a new problem, come and hear Andrew... Clare Hartwell: Aspects of Manchester Architecture - 11:30Clare Hartwell is an architectural historian who has been based in the Manchester area for more than twenty years. Her publications include revisions of Nikolaus Pevsner's North Lancashire and part of South Lancashire in the Buildings of England series, Manchester in the Pevsner City Guides series and a study of Chetham's School and Library. This is your chance to hear Clare introduce some highlights of the architectural history she know so well. It will be a great complement to the guided walks. Sheila Rowbotham: Radicalism and Feminism in Manchester during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries - 12:30Sheila Rowbotham is internationally known as a historian of women and of feminism Her many book include Women, Resistance and Revolution (1972) and Hidden from History (1974). Her latest book is Edward Carpenter. A life of Liberty and Love (Verso, 2008) -- on the socialist advocate of homosexual freedom and women's rights (1844-1929). Thanks to the enthusiasm of her students, she is happily still teaching at the University of Manchester. For the Festival, Sheila will be exploring Manchester in the early twentieth century, and its key role in the suffragette movement. With unique authority, she will discuss the local relationships between feminist movements and political radicalism. Jonathan Schofield: Perceptions of Manchester - 12:30Jonathan Schofield is the Editor of Manchester Confidential. He is also an accomplished writer and a broadcaster on tourism, architecture, public art, history and food and drink. His work as a guide was Highly Commended at the Manchester Tourism Awards 2005. He has written several books on the city, including some of the best of guidebooks. As a guide Jonathan has taken over ninety nationalities around Manchester ....from them, and from his historical researches, he knows a lot about people's perceptions of this city. James Sumner: Manchester Computing - 12:30James Sumner is Lecturer in History of Technology at the University of Manchester, and Associate Director of the UK National Archive for the History of Computing. His research explores how various technologies are created, used, and introduced into everyday life – especially computing, and also beer! He will explain the creation in Manchester in 1948 of the world's first electronic stored-programme computer, but he will also outline what has happened since - from the loss of Ferranti to the growth of local software companies. Tristram Hunt: Engels and the Betrayal of Manchester - 1.30Tristram Hunt is a lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels as well as the critically acclaimed, Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. A leading history broadcaster, he has authored numerous TV and radio series for the BBC and Channel 4. He is a regular columnist for The Guardian and The Observer, and is a Trustee of the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Keith Warrender: Underground Manchester: Secrets of the City Revealed - 1.30Keith Warrender is a well known author and publisher on Manchester topics. His book on Underground Manchester is an amazing exploration of tunnels of various kinds from the 1700s to nuclear war shelters. His lectures on the topic have proved hugely popular. This is your chance to discover a history beneath your feet, with lots of great pictures and maps. Robert Beale: Manchester Music: There's a Lot More Besides the Halle - 1.30Robert Beale is music critic of the Manchester Evening News and the author of The Hallé: A British Orchestra in the Twentieth Century (Forsyth) and Charles Hallé: A Musical Life (Ashgate). He is a member of the Manchester Musical Heritage Trust and contributor to its journal, Manchester Sounds. Of course, he knows everything about the Halle -- but for the Festival he will be exploring several other intriguing aspects of Manchester's musical heritage. Michael Wood: What Manchester's History Means To Me - 2.30Michael Wood is well known to television viewers as the writer and host of many critically acclaimed series including Art of the Western World, Legacy, Conquistadors, and In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great. He is also author of several best selling books, including In Search of the Dark Ages and Domesday. His most recent book of medieval essays is entitled In Search of England. Among Michael's special interests, Greece has always figured prominently since he hitched around it in his teens. He also has a keen interest in India. Born in Manchester, Michael was educated at Heald Place School, Benchill Primary School and Manchester Grammar School. Michael is an Oxford alumnus and has worked as a journalist, broadcaster and film maker, for the BBC and PBS. Michael's featured talk will explore what Manchester's history means to him, featuring personal anecdotes. He has been struck by Manchester's intriguing civic story, involving issues such as anti slavery, parliamentary reform, and women's suffrage. Find out why he believes that history can still be a source of solidarity and community for people of all backgrounds and walks of life. Bill Williams: Manchester: The Immigrant City - 2.30Bill Williams, the outstanding historian of the Jewish community of Manchester, was also the founder of the Manchester Jewish Museum. He has recently retired from the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Manchester, and is working on a book on refugees from Fascism who came to the Manchester Region. For the Festival Bill will distil his knowledge of immigration to Manchester, from 1800 to the present. In his characteristic sympathetic and accessible style, he will survey all the major immigrant groups – Irish, West Indian and Asian, as well as Jews and several others – asking how they helped constitute the ever-changing city. Robert Poole: Peterloo: What Actually Happened? - 2.30Robert Poole teaches history at the University of Cumbria. He has worked at several other North West universities and is an accomplished broadcaster. His writings span a wide variety of variety of intriguing topics; from the Lancashire Witches in the 1600s, to the history of the first views of Earth from space (see www.earthrise.org.uk) Robert is now working on Manchester's 'Peterloo massacre' of 1819, a key event in the development of modern democracy. He is also writing a biography of the radical Samuel Bamford (1788-1872), who was involved with Peterloo. This work is connected with a project to make available online the Home Office Disturbances papers in the National Archives, and with the local effort to create a monument to Peterloo Learn what happened in 1819, and why it should be commemorated. David Meek: The Pigeon Has Landed: Fifty Years of Change with Manchester United - 3.30David Meek has written and broadcast on Manchester United for the last 50 years. He took over as the United reporter for the Manchester Evening News in the tragic days immediately after the Munich air disaster in 1958, travelling widely with the team until his retirement in 1995. He is still closely associated with the club. He helped set up the museum and the Munich history memorial at Old Trafford, contributes to the club media, and works with the manager to produce his match programme editorials. The Pigeon in his lecture title refers to one of the first people he met on joining the Manchester Evening News -- a young messenger boy in charge of the pigeons used to fly reports from Old Trafford to the paper's office on Cross Street! David’s approach will also be light and fast, as he discusses the dramatic changes in his 50 years reporting -- the money, the managers, the technology and the game itself. Julie-Marie Strange: Mrs Gaskell's Manchester - 3.30Julie-Marie is a social historian who comes from Preston. She has taught in Manchester University for the last five years, attracting students to courses on working-class family life in Victorian period, on poverty, and on death and bereavement. Julie Marie’s Festival lecture will focus on mid nineteenth-century Manchester, when tourist came to see the shock city of the industrial age. The emphasis will be on the working classes and the poor, and how historians now see them. Michael Worboys: Manchester Medicine - 3.30Michael Worboys directs the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (University of Manchester), and is internationally known for publications on the history of medicine and biological sciences. He first studied the ways that sciences were used in the British empire, and then the history of infectious disease. His books include Spreading Germs and a recent history of Rabies in Britain (Mad Dogs and Englishmen, with Neil Pemberton) Mick will focus on infectious disease in Manchester – from cholera in 1832, to venereal diseases, tuberculosis, and of course rabies. 'Germs' are a wonderful way to link science with social history, and Mick is star in this field! |
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