2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Our Heritage
Inspiring Manchester People: Alan Turing
2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Inspiring Manchester People: Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw
2024 is a special year for The University of Manchester as we celebrate our 200th anniversary! This amazing milestone gives us an opportunity to reflect on all of the amazing and inspiring individuals who have made Manchester what we are today. That’s why we’re delighted to share this series of blog posts written by our Read More…
Our campus: then and now
The University of Manchester is the UK’s largest single site University, with a campus spanning 229 buildings all across the city! With over 200 years of history behind our institution, you can imagine that there have been many changes to the look and feel of our campus over the years. Many of the University’s historic Read More…
What ‘World First’ will you make possible?
The University of Manchester is known for ground-breaking firsts, from being England’s first civic university, to splitting the atom and the discovery of graphene. But every single first would not be possible without you, our students and the alumni that dedicate their time, talent, and vision to creating a better world. In 1874 Edward Langworthy Read More…
Top ten items from Manchester Museum’s collections
As Manchester Museum begins one of its most exciting development projects of the last century, we go over our top ten items from the collections This post is guest written by Dr David Gelsthorpe, Curator of Earth Science Collections at Manchester Museum. He can be found on Twitter @paleomanchester Manchester Museum is beginning one of Read More…
Donations Change Lives: Campus and Heritage
The impact of donations to The University of Manchester can be seen all over campus At The University of Manchester, we can trace our history back to the creation of the Manchester Mechanics Institute in 1824. Since then, we’ve merged and changed through a variety of institutions – Owens College, The Victoria University, UMIST – Read More…
A university and a city of literature
Manchester goes into 2018 buoyed by international recognition as a UNESCO City of Literature – a destination dedicated to pursuing excellence in the written word, sharing stories and engaging citizens in books, both locally and around the globe. From the gothic history of its John Rylands Library to the rich seam of best-selling authors and Read More…
Celebrating inspiring women
The University of Manchester has a rich and proud tradition of attracting and enabling strong and inspiring women to flourish Throughout our history, The University of Manchester has been home to countless inspiring women. International Women’s Day presents an opportunity for us to celebrate the ground-breaking and inspiring work done by women here at Manchester, Read More…
6 things you might not know were donor funded
Donors to the University fund everything from student scholarships to napping pods, and everything in between. The University of Manchester would not be the world-leading institution it is today without the support of our generous donors. If you take a walk around our campus or through any of the buildings on it, you’re bound to Read More…