YOUR LINK to School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
Welcome to our School Alumni web pages launched by The School of Arts, Histories and Cultures (SAHC). The School of Arts, Histories and Cultures was born in 2004 out of the merger of The Manchester Victoria University and UMIST.
It is the largest of 23 Schools comprising the University and brought together 8 different departments: Art History and Visual Studies, Archaeology, Classics and Ancient History, Drama. English and American Studies, History, Music and Religions and Theology.
With over 3,500 students, undergraduate and postgraduate, and over 200 members of academic staff, full time and part-time it has already proved itself to be one of the most exciting and successful ventures in the new University.
Established now for over 7 years it is a good time to launch an enewsletter and these web pages for the alumni of those who graduated from those departments, before the merger and after it.
For you are all part of a continuing and evolving tradition of the teaching of and research into the liberal arts at the University of Manchester. We hope our pages will enable us to keep in touch and strengthen the sense of the community to which you belong. They will enable you to learn about how things are changing in your different disciplines in difficult times for the Higher Education sector, to see how we continue to flourish and excel through these times, and to draw attention also to the ways in which you have graduated from here to make your own mark in the world.
To that end we would like to learn about your achievements. We will publish these in our enewsletter twice a year, notifying you of important events that have happened and events to which you are invited - more information about our events can be found here.
Our enewsletter and web pages do not replace the communication you receive from the University Alumni Association. It is done in conjunction with that office that we might share in more detail what is happening to us and you might share what is happening to you. Our success is also your success; just as your success is something we are proud of and enhances our own sense of achievement.
We look forward to a continuing interaction between the teaching and research engaged here and those who have been beneficiaries of that teaching and research and have advanced into a wide range of careers and any number of international locations.
With best wishes,
Jeremy Gregory
Head of School of Arts, Histories and Cultures