The Staffordshire Oatcake: A History

The famous Staffordshire oatcake is nothing less than a local food hero. Throughout the Potteries, and even beyond, it has achieved iconic status, with more than forty traditional oatcakemakers still in business today.
True, it has come a long way from its origins as humble, cheap and filling sustenance for the poor. All manner of exotic [...]

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Telling the many stories of Dora Montefiore – Inaugural Lecture at Keele

Professor Karen Hunt, History at Keele University, will give the latest lecture in the University’s programme of Inaugural Lectures for 2009/2010, on Tuesday, 10 November. The title of the lecture is “Telling the many stories of Dora Montefiore (1851-1933): history and lifewriting”.
This lecture explores some of the issues that face the historian-biographer: not only how [...]

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Keele Lecture Looks At Sixteenth Century Staffordshire

Local history enthusiasts are invited to a lecture at Keele University taking a look at personalities and politics in mid-Tudor Staffordshire.
The 25th Earl Lecture will be given by Professor Ralph Houlbrooke, professor of early modern British history at Reading University, on Wednesday, October 21, at 8pm.
The lecture, which takes place every two years, was founded [...]

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Michael Mansfield QC to speak at Keele University 25/11/09

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED!
One of Keele University’s most famous alumni is to lift the lid on his high profile legal career at a free public lecture.
Michael Mansfield QC, who studied History and Philosophy at Keele in the early 1960s, has represented clients in some of the most controversial legal cases the [...]

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Keele alumnus Michael Mansfield QC to publish memoirs

One of Keele University’s most famous alumni is to publish his memoirs and lift the lid on his high profile legal career.
Michael Mansfield QC, who studied History and Philosophy at Keele in the early 1960s, has represented clients in some of the most controversial legal cases the country has seen, including: Barry George, accused of [...]

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