If you’ve started a degree in science or engineering here at The University of Manchester this week, you’ve made a good choice – and you’ll be following in some very distinguished footsteps. You see, Manchester has been at the centre of the European scientific community for centuries. It was in this city that John Dalton…
We all have it – that cupboard, cabinet or even room where we ‘tidy stuff away’ simply so we can forget about it. Who doesn’t have a box left unpacked after every home move that they just shove unopened under the bed? At The University of Manchester, we have our fair share of chocker storage…
War hero; pioneering engineer; champion motorcycle racer – these are just a handful of the labels you could apply to Beatrice Shilling. And yet, ask someone on the street if her name rings a bell, and the answer will likely be “no”. That’s one of the reasons for the new BBC documentary series Invented In…
