To mark International Women’s Day 2025 we’d like to introduce Marilyn Cuffy, and the archive she donated to us. We feature Marilyn not only becaus...
The Legacy of Ahmed Iqbal Ullah
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...
From Silence to Story; Recognising the Voices of Manchester’s Global Majority women
Blog post by Shafia Khatun of Manchester Metropolitan University reflecting on her experience visiting the Centre and uncovering stories of some of th...