The Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust has recruited two new Trainee Library and Archive Assistants for our project supported by the National Lottery H...
Ian Macdonald QC 1939-2019
It is with great sadness that we heard of Ian Macdonald’s passing in November 2019. The ‘Father of Immigration Law’ was an anti-racist defence l...
Reflecting on the BME Network Capacity Building Programme
By Atiha Chaudry, Chair of the Greater Manchester BME Network We are enjoying our work with the National Lottery Heritage Fund and have found them to ...
Reflections on Black History Month
Earlier this year I travelled to Ghana, the birthplace of my maternal grandfather, for a family holiday. It incidentally coincided with Ghana’s ‘Y...
Exhibition Reflection: Journeys to Manchester
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...