By Kadija Ollow, Digital Engagement Officer At our recent Your Voice, Your Education: Shaping Inclusive Educational Resources workshop, we invited you...
Documenting the Places That Hold Global Majority Memories
Reference Number: GB3228.5/4/25, Elouise Edwards, Demonstrations & Campaigns, 1982-1993 Rekindling Nello James Event On Saturday 29th November, we...
Sanctuary, now and then: asylum, migrant rights and anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s
We are pleased to be hosting the event ‘Sanctuary, now and then: asylum, migrant rights and anti-deportation in Britain since the 1980s’, on Frida...
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 his...
Reimagining Black History Month
We are delighted to announce that we will be joined on Wednesday 2nd October 2024, 5:15 – 7:30pm, Performance Space, Manchester Central Library by a...
The African Presence in Manchester University’s Bicentenary
Join us on Thursday 25th July, 5pm- 7:30pm in the Performance Space at Manchester Central Library for a momentous event: “The African Presence in th...
Introducing Dynamic Collections funded project; Community Led Collecting Fit for the Future
By Laila Benhaida, Community Archivist and Project Lead; Community Led Collecting Fit for the Future We are excited to announce that we have begun a n...
‘Anarchists, agitators and looters’: Why media coverage matters
In this third and final blog post looking back at the Moss Side Uprising in 1981, working with the resources from the Elouise Edwards Collection, Acad...
‘Not a race riot’: Looking back on the 1981 Moss Side uprising.
Marking the 42nd anniversary of the Hytner Report, Claire Fox, Academic Director of the AIU RACE Centre, draws on the Elouise Edwards collection to co...