Manchester Minds

Editor's Introduction - Stuart Jones
Part I:
Academy and community in the nineteeth-century city - Stuart Jones
1 The mechanics' institutes and the spread of 'useful knowledge' - Joanna Bourke
Vignette 1: The founders of the Manchester Mechanics' Institution - Natalie Zacek
2 Heidelberg in Cottonopolis: how Roscoe brought German ideas to Manchester - Peter J.T. Morris and Peter Reed
3 James Bryce's Manchester: the politics of the remaking of Owens College, 1865-75 - Stuart Jones
4 Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library - Elizabeth Gow
5 William Boyd Dawkins: race, geology and the deep past in Manchester, 1869-1929 - Chris Manias
6 Ancoats and lab coats: Sheridan Delepine and municipal public health - Michael Worboys
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 - John McAuliffe
Part II:
Civic university and civic decline - Stuart Jones
Vignette 2: Catherine Chisholm and the Manchester Babies' Hospital - Peter Mohr with Stuart Jones
8 Three Zionists: Samuel Alexander, Chaim Weizmann and Lewis Namier - David Hayton
9 Shared friendship and divided politics: Patrick Blackett and Michael Polanyi in Manchester - Mary Jo Nye
Vignette 3: Formed in Europe, shaped in Manchester: refugee engineer, Professor Franz Koenigsberger - Jonathan Aylen
10 William Arthur Lewis and economic development: a Manchester story - Gerardo Serra
11 Tools versus minds: two Manchester computing traditions - James Sumner
12 Social anthropology at Manchester and the study of modernity - Katherine Ambler
Vignette 4: Shock City: Michel Butor and W.G. Sebald in Manchester - Catherine Annabel
13 Dorothy Emmet: 'for administrators whose hearts are with the anarchists, and anarchists who can have a heart for the administrators' - Rachael Wiseman
14 Gilbert Gadoffre: institutionalising cultural reproduction - Derek Robbins
Part III:
The University in the post-industrial city - Stuart Jones
15 Making an impact: Brian Cox, Jodrell Bank and changing perceptions of science in the twenty-first century - Matthew Cobb
16 Post-crash economics: liberal education through struggle against the curriculum - Joe Earle, Sukhdev Johal and Karel Williams
17 Merger, global ambition and a renewed civic role - the University of Manchester from 2004 to 2024 - Luke Georghiou
Epilogue - Dame Nancy Rothwell
Index -- .