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Aftermath: 100 years of creativity from conflict

7 February - 29 June 2014
How remarkable is it that, throughout our shared history, some people have been inspired to answer the worst examples of man’s inhumanity with acts of compassion and creativity? Aftermath…

Big Saturday: Plants, Poisons, Platypuses

11:00 - 16:00 26 April 2014
Come along and bring all the family to a day of discovery. Find out more about the adaptations and characteristics plants and animals use to survive and how humans have learned from…

Bus Stop Stories

20 February - 22 June 2014
At the start of 2013, John Shinnick, a Manchester photographer, set out to document the people using a local, city centre bus stop; a quiet stop were people rarely alight. The people…

Fragmentary Ancestors: Figurines from Koma Land, Ghana

25 October 2013 - 4 May 2014
This exhibition at Manchester Museum is the first ever officially approved showing of clay figurines made by a previously little understood people in Koma Land in Ghana in West Africa.…

From the War of Nature

11 April - 31 August 2014
Manchester Museum new exhibition. Boxing hares, burrowing parasites, baby birds and prowling wolves are just some of the characters appearing in this story of predation, competition,…

Grumbold’s Dragon Egg Hunt

7 - 27 April 2014
Grumbold’s friends have been to visit him at the Library, but they’re a messy bunch and have left their dragon eggs all over the place. Can you find them all before they hatch?

Here be Dragons!

12:00 - 13:00 26 April 2014
The walls and ceilings of the Library are full of strange and mysterious creatures – join our tour to seek them out! This tour is most suitable for families with children aged 5-10.

MAP Academic Writing and Revision Skills workshop

26 April 2014
The Manchester Access Programme (MAP) is a structured scheme for local post-16 students who meet specific academic and background criteria. The aim of the programme is to support entry…

The Space Between: exhibition of artworks by Anthony McCarthy

27 February - 3 August 2014
The concept for the exhibition began as artist, Anthony McCarthy, walked along Chapel Street in Salford heading towards Manchester and The John Rylands Library. Armed with pencil,…

The Whitworth closure for major development work

2 September 2013 - 14 February 2015
The Whitworth reopens on Saturday 14 February 2015. The gallery is currently closed in order to carry out major development work, transforming the Gallery into a new 21st century Gallery…

UMASS Exam Preparation Podcast Series

14 April - 9 May 2014
We will be running an Exam Preparation Podcast series which will take place over a month. Each week will explore a new topic around exam preparation, and every day there will be new…

Urban Naturalist: Urban Wildlife

14:00 - 16:00 26 April 2014
Join the RSPB to find out more about your local wildlife and how to encourage and give nature a home. We are living in an increasingly urbanised world, which has huge implications for…

April Forum: “Market versus State? Responsibility for Sustainability Policy in Housing”

16:00 - 17:00 28 April 2014
The New Researchers Network is pleased to host Abigail Gilbert from the School of Environment, Education and Development discussing the way in which regulation of large scale residential…

Developing online research resources: ManReg’s disproportionality database

16:00 - 18:00 28 April 2014
ManReg’s disproportionality database, one of the outputs of a University of Manchester Research Institute 2013 pump priming collaborative research project, went live on 11 March 2014.…

GL Brown Prize Lecture 2014 - Porf David Eisner, University of Manchester

13:00 - 14:00 28 April 2014
Calcium in the heart: from physiology to disease It is 130 years since Sydney Ringer found that calcium is required…

How can engineers and scientists use their skills in an international disaster?

17:30 - 19:30 28 April 2014
How can engineers and scientists use their skills in an international disaster? Exploring Darfur: a humanitarian crisis case study Students are invited to this enhanced workshop with…

Midwifing Fiction: A Masterclass with Enrique García Santo-Tomás

17:00 - 18:30 28 April 2014
Exploring the creation of cultural myths and images of childbirth in Spain's early modern period Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor…

Midwifing Fiction: A Masterclass with Enrique García Santo-Tomás (Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

17:00 - 19:00 28 April 2014
In this masterclass Enrique García Santo-Tomás will reflect on a number of issues in relation to the formation of the literary field and the creation of cultural myths in early modern…

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