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...
A Black History Manifesto for Manchester
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...
Changes to our Library: the Gender, Relationships and the Family section
How we reviewed our Gender, Relationships and Family section of the library and the changes we've made....
Windrush 75: Caribbean Migration to the UK – Books and Resources
The books and resources included in this list focus on Caribbean migration to the UK, symbolised by the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush to Tilbury Dock...
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....