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The Manchester Gay Alliance is formed by the University of Manchester's Lesbian & Gay Society, CHE, a lesbian group and transvestite transsexual group. 1975. 2 January – The Manchester Gay Alliance opens the Manchester Gay Switchboard to provide support and information to callers. It originally operated in the basement of the University of ...
The history of football in England dates back to at least the eighth century. [33] The modern rules of association football are based on the mid-19th century efforts to standardise the widely varying forms of football played in the public schools of England. The "Laws of the University Foot Ball Club" (Cambridge Rules) of 1856
St Anselm Hall, known colloquially as Selms, is a traditional University of Manchester hall of residence situated in Victoria Park.. It was founded in 1907 by Rev. Thomas B. Allworthy on behalf of the Church of England for the theological training of male students.
College Hall, within the 16th-century St Mary's College building. In 1410 a group of Augustinian clergy, driven from the University of Paris by the Avignon schism and from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge by the Anglo-Scottish Wars, formed a society of higher learning in St Andrews, which offered courses of lectures in divinity, logic, philosophy, and law.
Manchester University Press is the university press of the University of Manchester, England and a publisher of academic books and journals. Manchester University Press has developed into an international publisher. It maintains its links with the University.
Hulme (/ h j uː m /) is an inner city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England, immediately south of Manchester city centre. It has a significant industrial heritage . Historically in Lancashire , the name Hulme is derived from the Old Norse word for a small island, or land surrounded by water or marsh, indicating that it may have been ...
Manchester is one of the principal cities of the United Kingdom, gaining city status in 1853, thus becoming the first new city in over 300 years since Bristol in 1542. . Often regarded as the first industrialised city, [1] Manchester was a city built by the Industrial Revolution and had little pre-medieval history to spe
Customers in England and France also bought the computer, and it became the basis for the IBM 7950 Harvest, a supercomputer built for cryptanalysis. [15] The third pioneering supercomputer project in the early 1960s was the Atlas at the University of Manchester, built by a team led by Tom Kilburn. He designed the Atlas to have memory space for ...