Terry Wyke
Senior Lecturer
Contact Details
Room: Geoffrey Manton Building (Room 428)
Telephone: 0161 247 3878
E-mail: t.wyke@mmu.ac.uk
Responsibilities
Current Teaching
I am currently teaching on the following courses:
- Year One
- Manchester: Making of an Industrial Region [with Alan Kidd]
- Year Two
- Social History of Victorian Britain
- Researching History: The Historian's Craft [with Pat Ayers, Tilman Frasch]
- Year Three
- Victorian Manchester
Background
Academic Biography
I graduated from the University of York in 1970, having studied Economics and Economic History. In 1972, I became a Temporary Lecturer in Economic History at the University of York. In 1974, I became a Lecturer in Social and Economic History in the Department of Economics at Manchester Polytechnic, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 1980. I have been involved in teaching, researching, organising exhibitions, writing and talking about, and encouraging others to study the history of Manchester and the wider region since the 1970s. Along the way, I have written and published books, articles, dvds, book reviews, arranged day schools and exhibitions, and helped edit various publications and series, notably the Bibliography of North West England (1992-97) and the Manchester Region History Review (1986-96). I continue to compile the annual Manchester Annals for the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, a project begun by the late Donald Cardwell (Manchester Memoirs, vol. 136 onwards). I have also conducted historical research projects for local authorities, voluntary associations and businesses in the region. Most recently, these have included a study of the Manchester Free Trade Hall on behalf of Radisson Edwardian Hotels [The Hall of Fame (2004)], (2004)], preparing Manchester's bid as a World Heritage Site [Manchester. The World's First industrial City. Report of Inclusion on the World Heritage List (2005), with Robina McNeil, Mike Nevell, Clare Hartwell, Alan Kidd], and a survey and history of the paintings and sculpture in Manchester Town Hall, Manchester Town Hall Complex Conservation Plan, Vol 4 (2007). Current research projects include a study of the development of the Rochdale Canal in Manchester [Peter Maw and Alan Kidd] funded by English Heritage, a history of the second-hand book trade in nineteenth-century Manchester [Michael Powell] and funeral monuments in Manchester Cathedral [Jeremy Gregory]. (2004)]
Research Interests
Local and Regional History of North West England
Current Projects
- Cholera in Manchester
National Recognition and Awards
The study Public Sculpture in Greater Manchester (Liverpool University Press, 2004) (Liverpool University Press, 2004) was the winner of the Portico Book Prize in 2005.
I received the MBE for services to local history and higher education in 2007.
