Please note: In this piece we use the term Global Majority. By this, we mean people and / or communities whose roots are in the Caribbean and Latin Am...
Faith, Decolonising and the Act of Archiving
Our guest blog writer is author, playwright and public educator Suhaiymah Manzoor Khan. Her work disrupts assumptions about history, race, violence, a...
Anti-Racism and Anti-Fascism: Then and Now – A Reading List
We are shocked and appalled by the racist, Islamophobic and fascist violence of recent weeks. This violence is the result of anti-migrant, Islamophobi...
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...
Re-evaluating America’s “Rainbow Coalition”: The Lou Kushnick Interviews
Guest post by Dr Andrew Fearnley, Lecturer in Twentieth Century US History and Programme Director for American Studies, University of Manchester Betwe...
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...
Stephen Lawrence Day 2024- Books and Archive Resources
For 2024, the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah RACE Centre commemorates Stephen Lawrence Day by sharing our collections to understand race and colonialism within the...
An assessment of the UK’s hostile environment: societal and policy implications from Windrush to the present day
In this blog post, Jon Davies, Rose Broad and Michelle Corallo (Department of Criminology, University of Manchester) draw upon three of the collection...