Participant Info
- First Name
- Michala
- Last Name
- Hulme
- Country
- United Kingdom
- State
- michala.hulme@mmu.ac.uk
- Affiliation
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Website URL
- www.michalahulme.com
- Keywords
- Victorian, 19th Century, Crime, Death, Edwardian, Living in the Victorian City, Manchester history, Peterloo, Genealogy, Family History
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am an award-winning historian and professional genealogist at Manchester Metropolitan University. I specialise in the period 1800-1950. My personal research interests include living and dying in Victorian Britain, with a particular focus on the experience of the working classes, crime and street gangs. I have made over 70 appearances on local radio and have featured in national and regional TV programmes, such as Channel 5’s How the Victorian’s Built Britain with Michael Buerk, Channel 4’s Great Canal Journeys, BBC’s Heir Hunters, Who Do You Think You Are?, Channel 4’s Genealogy Roadshow, BBC Breakfast, Channel 5 News, BBC News and Granada News. I am also the historical consultant and feature on an episode of Channel 4’s Great British Towns. I have written for and have featured in several newspapers and magazines, such as the Mail, The Stylist, The Daily Mirror, M.E.N and Who Do You Think You Are Magazine? I am also a published author with the History Press – my books focus on the ‘grim’ side of living in a Victorian city. I also co-present Ancestry’s Behind the Headlines of History podcast.
- Recent Publications
A Bloody British History Manchester published by The History Press (2016)
A Grim Almanac of Manchester published by The History Press (2014)
- Media Coverage
- BBC’s Heir Hunter’s (2016); BBC News (2016); Who Do You Think You Are? (2018); Channel 4’s Great Canal Journeys (2018), Channel 4’s Genealogy Roadshow (2018), Channel 5 News (2018); Granada News (2019); BBC NW Tonight (2019); BBC Breakfast (2019);
- Social Media
- unearththepast
- Country Focus
- UK
- Expertise by Geography
- United Kingdom
- Expertise by Chronology
- 18th century, 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Family, Food History, Gender, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Migration & Immigration, Politics, Public History, Sports, Technology, Urban History, Women, World War I
