Every year as October approaches there is a flurry of activity around Black History. For Black History Month 2023, we're taking a different approach. ...
When Musical Traditions Meet and Inspire Project
For the last couple of years, we have supported Emmaneula Yogolelo to deliver her recent Arts Council funded project ‘When Musical Traditions Meet a...
South Asian Heritage Month: Sri Lankan Reading List
Within our year-long programme around South Asian Heritage Month and its theme of Stories to Tell, we will be focusing on the theme of Making Sri Lank...
Holocaust Memorial Day 2023 – Ordinary People
Holocaust Memorial Day is a day for remembering all those who have died in genocides, both during the Holocaust and in the genocides which followed....
Sharing some Black History Month creativity
Our Black History Month theme of We Are Carnival! is the inspiration for some great creative work from three Manchester primary schools...
We Are Carnival! – a reading list
Some reading suggestions on the theme of Carnival from our library....
The New York Teacher’s Strike and the United Bronx Parents
Second of two posts by History and American Studies students at Manchester University working with our collections ...
Shoot to Kill: The Chicago Police Department and Black Power
First of two posts by History and American Studies students at Manchester University working with our collections ...
Review: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should all be Feminists
In the third guest blog from our MA placement students, Emma Allen reviews Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s We Should All Be Feminists....
Holocaust Memorial Day
For Holocaust Memorial Day (27 January) we shared some book suggestions from our library....