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...
Cheetham Cultural Festival
Past event – On Saturday 21st September myself, Angela and Hattie took part in the Cheetham Cultural Festival by displaying some material from o...
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...
Book Launch: Britain’s ‘Brown Babies’
Past event – An opportunity to meet with Lucy Bland, Professor of Social and Cultural History, Anglia Ruskin University, the author of Brit...
Double Book Launch: His Own Man & Imagining Robert Reschid
Past event – His Own Man is the historical biography of Robert Stanley, a respectable northern working-class Victorian man who converted to...
Black Then, Black Now: Black History Month 2019
This event has now passed. The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust x Big People Music present 3 days of history, 3 days of futurity on the 1st, 28th and...
Aratta – Armenians in the North West
Past event – Aratta: The Exhibition showcases the stories of people in Manchester with Armenian heritage or intricate ties to Armenia. The exhib...
Rebecca Bailey
Rebecca Bailey, 25, is an assistant exhibitions manager at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. Originally from Salford, and later Warrington, she com...
Holly Randhawa
Holly Randhawa, 23 and from Birmingham, was an intern with the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust for six months. She arranged the placement through th...