Michala Hulme is a finalist for Manchester City Council’s Manchester People's Culture Award

Michala Hulme is a professional genealogist and social historian at Manchester Metropolitan University.

They might have had an impact on people, in a school, a club, a community or the city. This is an award with a difference, because the final winner will be chosen by a public vote in association with the Manchester Evening News. Achievements for this category can have taken place over a number of years’.

The nomination follows Michala's work on tracking down living descendants from rare Peterloo veterans photograph. Find out more here.

The winner of the public vote will be announced on Saturday 9th November, at Manchester Central.

Michala Hulme is a professional genealogist and social historian at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is based at the Manchester Centre for Public History & Heritage. Michala specialises in the period 1800-1950. Her 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. She has made over 60 appearances on local radio and has featured in national and regional TV programmes, such as 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. Michala has written for and has 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? She is a published author with the History Press – her books focus on the ‘grim’ side of living in a Victorian city. She is the Editor of the new Public History and Heritage NW Magazine and the former Editor of the Manchester Region History Review.

See what Michala has to say about the nomination on Twitter.

Michala Hulme co-hosts Ancestry and Newspapers.com show unearthing fascinating personal stories. Find out more here.