On 9th February 2020 the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre celebrated the 21st anniversary of its launch in 1999....
The Black Chronicles: Pop-up Exhibition
The exhibition is back by popular demand! On the 14th February, our pop-up exhibition ‘The Missing Chapter: Black Chronicles’ will be appe...
Welcome, Maya!
On 6th January, Maya Sharma joined the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Resource Centre and Education Trust as our new Collections Access Officer. We&...
New Year, New Archives
Saturday 25th January marks Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival. Manchester will be filled with exciting celebrations, lantern and dragon parades, fi...
UoM Film Screening
Over the past few months we have been working with second year students from the UoM Drama department, who have created short films inspired by AIU Ce...
International Mother Language Day 2020
On Friday 21st February we will be celebrating International Mother Language Day with Archives+ and various schools and community groups from around M...
Ian Macdonald QC 1939-2019
It is with great sadness that we heard of Ian Macdonald’s passing in November 2019. The ‘Father of Immigration Law’ was an anti-racist defence l...
Exhibition Reflection: Journeys to Manchester
Past event – On the 18th June 2019 we launched ‘Journeys to Manchester’, an exhibition exploring the lives of people displaced by conflict, ...
How equal is Great Britain? How far have we come since the Race Relations Act of 1976?
At the beginning of 2018 we were (and still are!) very pleased to announce that our collection of publications from the Commission for Racia...
Black Then, Black Now: Hair braiding, yoga and more
Past event – This year for Black History Month we’re mixing things up. As well as turning things on their head on the 1st October (filling...