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Research group: Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage
Helping individuals and communities make new connections with their history and heritage.
Summary
About our research
The Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage (MCPHH) explores the complex economic, social and cultural relationships that connect people, places and the past.
Building on the work of the Manchester Centre for Regional History, we encourage individuals and communities to engage actively with history.
Our engagement activities include oral history training, community archaeology, collaborative partnerships with museums and archives across the UK, and international heritage research in Europe and south Asia.
We aim to build links between academia and the public and be recognised internationally for excellence in publicly engaged research.
Our research teams have excellent links with public history and heritage organisations, including regional, national and international organisations, such as:
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Manchester City Council
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Manchester Histories
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Chetham’s Library
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The Pankhurst Centre
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National Trust
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Historic England
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Historic Environment Scotland
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National Museums Scotland
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Cadw
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the Ashmolean Museum
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UNESCO
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National Museum Ireland
We also have links with a range of universities and research centres, including Leibniz University in Hanover, McGill University in Montreal and the Raphael Samuel History Centre at the University of London
Selected projects
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Key publications
Key publications
Shore, H and Cox, P (2002). Becoming Delinquent: British and European Youth, 1650-1950. H. Shore, P. Cox. London: Ashgate
Shore, H (1999) Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth Century London. Boydell Press
Horner, C (2019) The Cheshire Motor Vehicle Registrations, vol. 1: 1904-07. C. Horner. Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Harrold, E and Horner, C (2008) The Diary of Edmund Harrold, Wigmaker of Manchester 1712-15. Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Our journal
Organisations we work with
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UK Research and Investment
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British Academy
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National Lottery Heritage Fund
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US Embassy
Contact us
You can contact individual members of the team through their staff profiles.
Join the Friends of of the Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage.
For general enquiries, please contact the centre’s director Prof Catherine Fletcher.