Manchester minds: A university history of ideas

doi:10.7765/9781526176332

In 2024 the University of Manchester celebrates its bicententary. Manchester minds marks this occasion with a collection of essays exploring the University as a site of intellectual exchange over two centuries. This was the place where the idea of the civic university was born, and the essays are centrally concerned with how University and city interacted to generate new ideas. The book balances discovery with public controversy. Some chapters reinterpret high-profile episodes – the politics of Zionism, the birth of the computer, Brian Cox and science communication – others focus on uncovering quirkier or unduly forgotten stories. The book brings together a wide range of contributors from within the University and beyond. Manchester minds offers a new angle on university history, and a fresh approach to the history of ideas.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv
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Contents
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Illustrations
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Contributors
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Introduction
pp 1-16
- By Stuart Jones
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PART I
pp 17-18
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Academy and community in the nineteenth-century city
pp 19-22
- By Stuart Jones
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1 - The mechanics’ institutes and the spread of ‘useful knowledge’
pp 23-38
- By Joanna Bourke
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Vignette 1 - The founders of the Manchester Mechanics’ Institution
pp 39-42
- By Natalie Zacek
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2 - Heidelberg in Cottonopolis: how Roscoe brought German ideas to Manchester
pp 43-59
- By Peter J. T. Morris, Peter Reed
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3 - James Bryce’s Manchester: the politics of the remaking of Owens College, 1865–75
pp 60-76
- By Stuart Jones
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4 - Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library
pp 77-93
- By Elizabeth Gow
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5 - William Boyd Dawkins: race, geology and the deep past in Manchester, 1869–1929
pp 94-109
- By Chris Manias
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6 - Ancoats and lab coats: Sheridan Delépine and municipal public health
pp 110-125
- By Michael Worboys
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7 - ‘In the grey-built city of the mind / Wave the green boughs of a few hostage powers’: Eva Gore-Booth, Esther Roper and the Manchester University Settlement in Ancoats, 1896–1907
pp 126-150
- By John McAuliffe
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PART II
pp 151-152
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Civic university and civic decline
pp 153-158
- By Stuart Jones
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Vignette 2 - Catherine Chisholm and the Manchester Babies’ Hospital
pp 159-164
- By Peter D. Mohr, Stuart Jones
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8 - Three Zionists: Samuel Alexander, Chaim Weizmann and Lewis Namier
pp 165-181
- By David Hayton
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9 - Shared friendship and divided politics: Patrick Blackett and Michael Polanyi in Manchester
pp 182-197
- By Mary Jo Nye
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Vignette 3 - Formed in Europe, shaped in Manchester: refugee engineer Professor Franz Koenigsberger
pp 198-201
- By Jonathan Aylen
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10 - W. Arthur Lewis and economic development: a Manchester story
pp 202-221
- By Gerardo Serra
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11 - Tools versus minds: two Manchester computing traditions
pp 222-240
- By James Sumner
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12 - Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity
pp 241-254
- By Katherine Ambler
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Vignette 4 - Shock city: Michel Butor and W. G. Sebald in Manchester
pp 255-259
- By Catherine Annabel
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13 - Dorothy Emmet: ‘for administrators whose hearts are with the anarchists, and anarchists who can have a heart for the administrators’
pp 260-278
- By Rachael Wiseman
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14 - Gilbert Gadoffre: institutionalising cultural reproduction
pp 279-296
- By Derek Robbins
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PART III
pp 297-298
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