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Get to know: Who is Professor Duncan Ivison?
Disability and ethnicity pay gaps go up, gender goes ...
Manchester Leftist Action member speaks out against a...
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Manchester’s continuing problem with inaccessib...
From Our Correspondent: Uncovering Berlin’s les...
Thread Therapy: In conversation with UoM’s Fash...
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If Labour wants to regain trust, they must stick to t...
Main Library Musings – Rant column #2
My life has been failing the Bechdel test – and...
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Why are you laughing: The science of humour
In conversation with The Lion King’s Head of Ma...
AI learns its first words (and helps explain how huma...
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Fallowfield’s 18.35%: Why are students not voting?
“They decided they didn’t want a Nightline any longer...
Spot checks on international students attendance set ...
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The new generation of F1 drivers: Wasted potential?
Tyrants cruise to playoff victory against Stirling Cl...
Memories of the game: A look back at favourite sporti...
Manchester Leftist Action member speaks out against academic suspension
22nd April 2024
A student involved with action group Manchester Leftist Action has spoken out against his suspension by the University
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Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
Why is everybody obsessed with minimalism?
How to have a routine when you have so few contact hours
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The Alchemist Cosmic Supper Club review: Unlocking celestial delights
Brunch at Santé: A slice of sun
Giving ‘Too Good To Go’ a go!
Springleaf Podcast: James Acaster’s new audio adventure
My year abroad, the visa process, and getting lost in translation
Getting involved: Volunteering at the Booth Centre
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Leopard print roars back: The resurgence of a popular fashion trend
Celebrity style guide #7: Lewis Hamilton
What the Croc? Pringles x Crocs and other crazy collabs
Houseplant heaven: The best plants to brighten up your student home
17th April 2024
With the RHS Urban Show coming to Manchester, we've found some of the best houseplants to enhance your student accommodation
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Northern Music Awards 2024: Celebrating breakthrough ...
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DIIV live in Manchester: Shoegaze stars promise enlig...
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The problem with publishing
Spotify vs Audible: The battle for audiobook dominance
Why I don’t regret buying a Kindle
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40 Years of the Future: Painting abstract exhibition ...
Review: Please Feel Free to Ignore My Work by David H...
Making Manchester #1: Anna Marsden
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Hedda review: A misguided imitation of Ibsen’s ...
My Beautiful Laundrette review: Nationalism, racial t...
Come From Away press launch: A community show for Chr...
Live Review: Caroline Polachek at Albert Hall
6th June 2023
Caroline Polachek stuns a sold-out Albert in her rescheduled show, touring her second solo album Desire, I Want To Turn Into You.
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My formative film: A love letter to Notting Hill
SCALA!!! co-director Jane Giles on audiences, program...
Chungking Express: Intoxicating youthful cinema | UoM...
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Taskmaster: Why it’s so good and where to begin
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Drive to Survive season 6: Get strapped in for more F...
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Hades 2 is bringing sexyback
So, uh, who exactly is the Borderlands film for?
Celebrities just can’t rescue bad games
My formative film: A love letter to Notting Hill
24th April 2024
How Richard Curtis' film about a charming bookshop owner changed my view on romance films forever
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Top 5 Feminist Books
Books
With March being Women’s History Month, Leonie Dunn looks at five of the top feminist works from manifestos to fiction
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Classics Digested: Paradise Lost
Books
340 years after John Milton’s death, Leonie Dunn considers Milton’s epic portrayal of the Fall of Man
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Great Worqs
Books
Are you a keen publisher, writer or filmmaker? Then check out Great Worqs, the new and innovative publishing platform
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Wolf Hall from Book to Screen
Books
Leonie Dunn observes Wolf Hall, the television adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s award winning novels, and BBC2’s most successful drama in over a decade
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Top 5: Romantic reads
Books
A list of the top five romantic reads just in time for Valentine’s Day
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Opinion: To Boycott or to not Boycott?
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn looks over the Christmas Amazon boycott and focuses on why it is both a positive and negative action to take
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Chaos to Order: Manchester’s Central Library
Books
Leonie Dunn looks to Library Live’s last event that aimed to smash down cultural presumptions and inhibitions surrounding Manchester’s Central Library
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Top 5 Books to Buy this Christmas
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn helps you with a list of stocking fillers for this Christmas
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Profile: The Chronicles of C.S. Lewis
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn looks over the life of the prolific author C.S. Lewis
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Top 5 Whodunnit Novels
Books
Books Editor Leonie Dunn picks her top 5 novels on those faceless killers and their detective counterparts
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Dylan Thomas’ Centenary
Books
May Dylan Thomas’ death have no dominion
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Top 5 Novels on mental health
Books
As it is Mental Health Awareness Week, Books Editor Leonie Dunn picks the top 5 most iconic novels that focus and reflect on mental health
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Azar Nafisi’s The Republic of Imagination: A Case for Fiction
Books
Nafisi “invites us to join her as citizens of her ‘Republic of Imagination,’ a country where the villains are conformity and orthodoxy and the only passport to entry is a free mind and a willingness to dream.”
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Sigmund Freud’s Life and Influence
Books
“Probably no theory evolved by man is as absurd as Sigmund Freud’s theory of penis envy.” –Esther Vilar in ‘The Manipulated Man’.
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Review: Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
Books
“Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.”
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The Book vs. the Kindle
Books
With the ever looming start of term approaching fast how are you going to be catching up on your reading?
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