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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust

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Our Archive Collection
Archives

Explore our extensive archives documenting local Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic community history.

Our Community Work
Community Work

We deliver talks and training at community events, workshops and conferences.

Our Library
Library

Our library collection has over 14,780
titles, covering topics including culture
and identity, history, politics, and local
studies.

Our Sound Archive
Oral Histories

Access excerpts from our collection of recorded life stories

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Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust

The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre and Education Trust is a specialist open-access library and archive, focusing on the study of race, migration and thinking about race, anti-racist activism and the fight for social justice. We are recognised as a centre of excellence in oral history work, Global Majority community-led collecting and ethical community engagement. We work ethically and sensitively with Global Majority communities to explore, document and share their histories, cultures and experiences.
We work with the heritage sector to deliver ethical and anti-racist collections-based practice, and to build anti-racist organisations.

 

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The Legacy of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah

Please note: In this piece we use the term Global Majority. By this, we mean people and / or communities whose roots are in the Caribbean and Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, South and East Asia, and indigenous people around the world. We use this in place of BAME.   This piece responds to the […]

Faith, Decolonising and the Act of Archiving

Our guest blog writer is author, playwright and public educator Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan. Her work disrupts assumptions about history, race, violence, and knowledge

Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism: Then and Now – A Reading List

We are shocked and appalled by the racist, Islamophobic and fascist violence of recent weeks. This violence is the result of anti-migrant, Islamophobic and racist narratives which present asylum seekers, migrants, Muslims and Global Majority people as the cause for today’s economic and social difficulties. Politicians from all parties have promoted these narratives and, in many cases, used them to win votes, supported by many media outlets.

Working Ethically With Black Histories: A Manifesto

As a Global Majority-led archive and library based in Manchester, we have worked with Global Majority histories over decades, to ensure that these histories are archived, to raise their profile and to advocate for an anti-racist approach to heritage and education. Over the past 25 years we have had the privilege of working with many […]

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